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reclamation work of the dunes and heaths, but it pro- 
gressed more actively only since the sixties of last 
century, when through the effort of a State engineer, 
Capt. Dalgas, an association was formed for the 
reclamation of heaths and moors. A small subvention 
of $600 started the work of the association under 
the advice of Staats planteur (State forest planter) Jen- 
sen Tusch in its useful campaign. The State subven- 
tion now amounts to about forty thousand dollars an- 
nually, and the success of the association has been such 
that it has become almost a fad for large land owners 
and others to buy up these waste lands and have them 
planted through the agents of the Heath Association. 
The planting is mainly of Spruce in plow furrows at a 
cost of $10 to $12 per acre; 60 to 80 year old stands of 
earlier plantings testifying to the possible results. 
In the last 40 years nearly 200,000 acres of heath have 
been planted, of which over one-half are to the credit of 
the association. 
For the education of the higher grade foresters a de- 
partment of forestry (now with two professors) was 
instituted in the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural 
High School at Copenhagen in 1869, with a course of 
five years including one and a half year of practical 
work. This education is given free of charge. 
The Heath Association educates its own officers, in- 
cluding in their subjects the management of meadows 
and peatbogs. 
A Forestry Association, composed one-half of forest 
owners, with its organ Tidskrift for Skovvaesen, in ex- 
istence since 1888, and a valuable book literature, in 
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