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Pages 707-768. Features: The Christmas Fir is Born - by Henry Clepper; Meeting the Red Menace (Forest Fire) - Uncle Sam's Policy of Trying to Save Pennies on Forest Fires is the Weak Link in National Forest Protection - article with great photos by Col. William B. Greeley; Evergreens of the Old Testament - by Adelaide Borah; Taming the Christmas Tree - the growing of evergreens for the Yule-tide season enters the ranks of new American industries - article with photos by Ovid M. Butler; Southern Cypress - article by Lysle Tomerlin with photos; Rusty and Ben (two bears) - story with photos by Stephen Doering; Keeping Christmas Green - the use of Holly and other plants to make wreaths; The Sport of Kings - Falconry - article with photos by Mabel Gillespie; Cutting Today's Forests to use in Coal Mines - article with nice photos by Thomas H. Wittkorn; The Tree That Would Not Die - the bald cypress beside the Monastery walls at St. Benedict's College in Indiana; Making better use of trees - article by C.L. Hamilton with amazing photos at the Wood Conversion Company at Cloquet, Minnesota; Seed Gathering in Minnesota's Pines - Men, Women and Children Comb the Innermost Haunts of America's Last Great Stand of Norway and White Pine for Seed in northern Minnesota - with photo of the Cass Lake Nursery kiln; The Fruit that named a forest - the Manzano apple trees planted at a Spanish mission centuries ago; Nice full-page travel ad for South Africa; Full-page ad by the Southern States Lumber Company features the sale of their 1,400 acre Magnolia Farm in Baldwin County, Alabama; Nice nostalgic ads. Average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Minimal pencil markings to contents. A sound copy. Magazine