Show FOREST NOTES the work of classifying and open ing to homestead entry such lands in the national forests as are chief ly valuable fol foi agriculture la is pro gr cresting gre aHna esting rapidly already alread over seventy million acres have been covered by field examinations and the final resorts acted upon there were vere cut from the nation a forests in the flacil fi I year 1916 board feet of timber of this amount board feet was cut out under free use arvi liege dage b bi 42 andt individuals in all 10 sales of timber were cre made of which 97 per cent were under in value indicating the extent to which the homesteader homestead tr rancher miner antler small millman and others in need of limited quantity of timber draw raw upon the forests tests at the forests products la bor oratory atory at madison W Wi conson in damte that by the use of four addi lonal nails in each end an inc increase reals if per cent in the strength of canned food boxes la is secured approximately 10 acres oade of de corded lorded lands landa within the national for far ests were re forested in the fiscal vear car 1918 the total nu ber of trece planted was waa while 8 pounds of tree seed were soun there were vere more cattle and horses harem and more sheep and goats goals using the national par for ests esta in 1916 than in 1915 this in crease was in spite of targe large elimina tiona df grazing lands from the forests it is a accounted for by improved methods of handling the stock and bv be more niti intimate onate knowledge of the forage on the ranges and their car carrying ring capacity the number of fires suppressed on national forests leads lands during the calendar vear 1915 was 6 as a edingt 7 in 1914 and an average annual number of 4 during dunna th the pala five ear saia a hem geniv v S graves chief of the forest service in his annual report just published while more than the a average arage rage number of fires occur d the timbered area burn burned over w is hut aerts or nr 30 per ent cent lesi 1 than ihan the average per bear in fr ahe he pod p od 1911 1915 inclusive the averige loa lo id a pe per afire fire was 60 41 forty four per cent of the firs warp ere colfin 1 I t ti areas of alts thin than n q arter a of an acre |