FORESTRY SCHOOL
Sir, —A small belt of trees was planted on good quality plains land to shelter a farm-yard. Fifteen years afterwards an insignis tree was windthrown, logged, and taken to a sawmill. It produced beautiful grained eight-inch boards, and out of one a kitchen form was made, dressed, oiled with raw linseed oil, nd had no other treatment. After 25 years it is quite sound, and of its type a beautiful piece of furniture. The State Forest Service claims to possess a tree science superior to that of the university, and of a standard sufficient to direct the now urgent afforestation of the world. Do its plantings and announced projects indicate that it even possesses sufficient science to guide the urgent plantings of these two small islands?— Yours, etc., ALF. G. HOLLAND. December 17, 1946,.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25061, 18 December 1946, Page 8
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