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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6382, 30 October 1888, Page 1

The TJnMsiTiou ob> the Dtttcbt Mooes. —In some provinces in. Holland there are large tracts of heath and moorland which at present have no value whatever, although once covered with dense forests. An effort iz now being made to utilise these moors, and several landowners have combined to form a Company, whose object it will be to attempt a gradual fertilisation of the eoU by replanting trees. How mnch good such an enterprise can work under careful management is shown by a similar undertaking in Denmark, which has been in existence for the last quarter of a century. The Danish Society for the fertilisation of heathß and moors, chiefly by forestation, has now some 4000 members, among whom may be found the principal agriculturists of the kingdom. It en joya large subsidies from the Government and from the agricultural societies, so that it has been enabled to start some four hundred "concessions," or plantations in different parts o f Denmark. In the Netherlands it is proposed-to; Jtork th&scheme upon similar Saeflr ' "•--•;