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Nature has a way of doing things with a rather wasteful hand 
and her method of forest reproduction by scattering enormous 
quantities of seed from parent trees, is a difficult matter for man 
to duplicate. This is because e the cost of seed is all out of pro- 
guarded when soil conditions are better, and where the resulting 
plants may be so cared for that there is a small natural loss. 
In other words, he can give the trees a start in a forest nursery. 
Subsequently, when the plants become sufficiently vigorous, he 
can transplant them into the forest or in open country better 
may expect to produce a forest. In other words, the business of 
planting trees for forests is surrounded with just about the 
possibilities for success or failure that we find in raising of a crop 
which matures in a shorter time. 
Attempts to raise forests with broadcast sowing of tree seed 
Secretary had control of the National Forests. _Men in the 
on burned-over areas and ead auatoble pane sites on 
National Forests. A number of Z have also 
