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Show PROFIT8 FROM OUR FORESTS. Government Experts Say They Will Yield More Than Germany's. Washington. American forests, according ac-cording to tho exports ot tho department depart-ment of agriculture, aro capablo ot yielding moro wood to tho aero, It 'woll handled, than tho notod forests of Germany, mnny of which not their owners from J2.G0 to 0 or moro per aero mutually. Not only aro our native forests richor In valuable tmi- bcr trees, but out cllmato and soli conditions con-ditions nro moro favorable Tho troublo is not that our trees do not grow fast enough, but thnt our Ignorance Ig-norance und carelossncss havo left our woodlands poorly stocked, Tho Cicrmnn fnrostor sees to It thnt his forest Is uniform nnd dense. To grow a full crop of wood, ns to grow u full crop of grass or corn, thoro must bo a full stand. -Noxt In Importance Im-portance is tho rato of growth of tho trees. The species most grown nbrond aro Norway spruce, Scotch plno, nnd silver sil-ver fir, for soft woods, and beech and oak for hard woods. In (Jcrmnn forests for-ests ot tho first quality, Norway spruco attains In 00 years nn avcrngo diameter of nlno nnd four-tenths Inches. |