Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1913 — Care of Forests. [ARTICLE]

Care of Forests.

While the Chinese have been creating havoc among their forests for centuries, the Japanese have taken good care of theire, and today more than a third of the arsa of Japan is still under forest There are only twentrsaw-mms in the whole country. The Japanese forests include four sones—the tropical (bamboo and banana), the subtroptaal (camphor), the temperate (oak, maple, poplars, otoj. mad the northern (pine).