FORESTRY OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. 45 
greater proportion of such planting and growing stands and succeeds 
than that.of artificial processes. Losses are rare, and only from oce- 
easional invading fires, and, where too thick on the ground, the stronger 
kill out the weaker—no loss in fact—simply adjusting or equalizing. 
Personal knowledge is had of many instances where lands, twenty and 
twenty-five years ago, considered worthless, are now valued at from 
twenty to one hundred dollars per acre solely for the timber naturally 
grown. 
ROBERT W. FURNAS. 
BROWNVILLE, NEBR., December 1, 1882. 
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