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Show GOVERNMENT FOREST NOTE8 It has been discovered that the waste from dogwood shuttle blocks can profltnbly be made Into handles for steel knives and forks. Contrary to popular belief, forest fires seldom travel more than two or three miles dn hour. Even in extreme cases It Ib questionable whether they burn at bi rate of more than six to ten miles an hour. Uncle Sam's forest rangers require thnt permanent camp sites wlthta the forests shall be kept in sanitary condition. con-dition. The ubiquitous tin can must bo burled and waste paper burned when a camp Is left, More than 3000 small logging operator oper-ator now buy national forest timber; at least 25,000 persons, settlers, miners, min-ers, stockmejn and others, obtain timber tim-ber from Uncle Sam's big wood lot for their own "so free of charge. The forests of Corsica, the little Island upou which Napoleon was born, nre manoged by the French governmemt. They producce, lumber, firewood nnd turpentine, and (ill parts of tho tree are far more closely utilized util-ized than In America. |
