smaller than that of Massachusetts.

Experts believe that a forest experiment station in the Lake States would stimulate production so that enough lumber could be produced to satisfy the local demands.
Not least in importance among the forest regions requiring an experiment station are the New England States and northern and eastern New York.

In that section there are approximately 25,000,000 acres of forest lands.

Five and one-half million acres consist of waste and idle land.

Eight million acres grow nothing but fuel-wood.