THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



eight thousand dollars ; Minnesota third with 

 about one hundred and eighteen thousand 

 dollars, and Michigan next with one hundred 

 and five thousand dollars. 



Thirty-two States have State forest offi- 

 cers, of whom nineteen are State Foresters 

 by title, while the majority of the remainder 

 perform duties of a very similar nature. 



Twenty-one States are receiving assistance 

 from the Federal Govei-nment imder the 

 Weeks law, which authorizes cooperation 

 for fire protection, provided the State will 

 furnish a sum equal to that allotted to it 

 from the National fund, with a limit of ten 

 thousand dollars to a single State. 



For purposes of reforestation, ten States 

 maintain forest nurseries. During the year 

 1912 they produced in round nimibers 

 twenty million young trees, of whicK four- 

 teen million were distributed to the citizens 

 of these ten States. 



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