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Show Tree Planting. The government is making an earnest earn-est effort to induce many of the states to plant trees on a wholesale scale and in some measure restore their original wealth. There are thousands of acres lying Idle, even in such populous popu-lous states as New York and Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania which can be made to yield millions mil-lions of dollars every, year if planted with trees. It is pointed out that although al-though the Eastern states once possessed pos-sessed more than enough trees for their own use they must now import lumber from the Fnoific coast, of course, at great expense. Boys' Life. |