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Show 80VEHNMENT POREST NOTE8 Connecticut has one and a half million mil-lion acres of timber land, mainly In farmers wood lots. - ( r '4 India ls developing an important turpontlno Industry, thought it docs not yot supply tho home market. Only one wood, Spanish cedar (Ced-rola (Ced-rola odorata) ls commonly used for cigar boxes. Sometimes a cheaper wood may form tho basis of tho box, with paper thin vonoers of tho tropical tropi-cal codar qvor it. It has been suggested that certain kinds of timber on tho nntlonal forests for-ests be reserved for tho needs of tho navy1. This recalls U10 fact that the tlrst forest reservations in this' country wero mado for naval material. mater-ial. Tho department of agrlculturo Is trying to ellmlnato tho danger to cattle cat-tle from poisonous plants on national forest ranges. Of theso plants, larkspur, lark-spur, loco weed, death caninB, tind water homlock nro tho most poison-ous. poison-ous. Larkspur does tho most harm, becauso It Ib so widely distributed and ls particularly bad for cattlo. Ordinarily, Or-dinarily, horses will not cut larkspur, parent Injury, nnd sheep can rat It without np- |