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the home. The trees should be planted in straight rows and a 

 certain number to the acre. The number depend on the kind of 

 trees. The dead trees and the trimmings from the others would 

 furnish enough wood for domestic use. 



There are many things which lead us to believe Indiana should 

 be reforested. The high price of lumber and firewood is due to 

 the scarcity of trees. Some day there will not be any coal, for it 

 takes decaj^ed leaves and other plants to form it. The people then 

 will have to depend entirely on wood for fuel. Trees retain moist- 

 ure by their leaves and roots. The leaves form a thick carpet over 

 the ground and prevent such rapid evaporation. Thus, by reforest- 

 ing, the natural resources would be increased, the home would be 

 more beautiful, and would serve as a check to floods. Hence, under 

 all these conditions, why should not Indiana be reforested? 



MABEL ADAIR, 



Lebanon, Ind. 

 Sophomore A, Lebanon High School. 



[Bulletin No. 18— Sheet Two. Released June 5, 1911.] 

 TO WHAT EXTENT SHOULD INDIANA BE REFORESTED? 



There are so many rea,sons why we should use our best efforts 

 to replace the forests of this State that they could not be easily be 

 numbered. 



Several years ago people were awakened to the fact that our 

 trees were rapidly disappearing, because the cost of timber, and 

 especially hardwood of Indiana, had, in a few years, so many times 

 doubled its value of an age ago. 



My father says that during his boyhood days lumber products 

 were so lightly regarded that beautiful hardwood trees, such as 

 one could scarcely find for a good example now, were cut down 

 and cleared away with the waste wood, or burned in a huge fire- 

 place, where it might as well have been substituted by soft wood, 

 had they used any forethought in preserving their valuable timber. 



When we note what a few years time has done it gives us a very 

 vivid picture of a treeless State in the near future, unless all co- 

 operate and work to make it otherwise. 



For some time a great many people have been interested in this 

 movement to reforest the State, and much good has been done, but 

 there is still a large task for us to perform to convince and educate 

 the people to the practical results of this work. 



