Bui. 49. Bureau of Forestry, U. S. Deot. of Agriculture. 



Plate IV. 



Fig. 1.— Cedar Brake near Austin Twenty-five Years after First Cutting. 

 A heavy crop of fuel and charcoal. Shows capacity for reforestation. 



Fig. 2.— Characteristic Encroachment of Mesquite on Pasture Land in Central 



Texas. 



With the exception of a few scattered live oaks this was a clean prairie a few years ago. 



