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The Redemption of Forest Land in the Lake States 
A.— Land sadly in need of planting; the kind which makes forest planting a problem. 
B.— Planted Norway pines growing splendidly on poor sandy soil which had been cultivated for 
farming and abandoned. 
C— Northern white pine eight years after planting on cultivated soil at Grand Rapids, Minn. 
