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mills at Berwyn and Riverdale, all concerns depending upon the retail 

 trade of their respective sections. 



The forests of Prince George's County, like those of others in the 

 State, are readily susceptible to improved methods, and respond readi- 

 ly to forest management of the right sort. Where the forests have 

 been abused by excessive and injurious cutting, and perhaps injured 

 repeatedly by fires, the first consideration must be to get them as fully 

 stocked as possible. This may often be accomplished by natural seed- 

 ing where the w^oodland is efficiently protected from fire, and exces- 

 sive grazing prevented. Where the present stand consists only of 

 scattered trees of undesirable kinds, and there are not a sufficient 

 number of seed trees of the better species to restock the land effectual- 

 ly, it is advisable that the land be cut clean, and replanted with an 

 5,dequate number of some more useful trees. 



