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A PRiAiy.R mf Forestry 



PLAyTIX(T. 



1, 



It ha- often lieen proposed to plant trees in order to 

 repair the damage done to the forests by the lumber- 

 men. Tree planting is mo>t u>eful in all the treeless or 

 scantily wooded portions of our country where planted 



Minnesota. Cost of ijlanting per acre 17 years 

 ago, S64.45. Present value per acre. S484. 



trees will grow, and wherever forest> have been very 

 severely iniurt-d « <v de'-troyed. but it is generally far too 

 expensive to take the place of conservative lumbering 

 in regions already forested. An acre of growing natural 



forest can be bought in nearly every forested part of 



