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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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Another Book by Kinney- 



THE DEVELOPMENT 



OF FOREST LAW 



IN AMERICA 



By J. P. Kinney, A. B., LL. B.. M. F. 



\ HISTORICAL Presentation of the 

 ^^ Successive Enactments by the Legis- 

 latures of tlie Forty-eight States of the 

 American Union, and by the Federal Con- 

 gress, d'rected to the Conservation and Ad- 

 ministration of Forest Resources. 



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Chapter Headings — Forest Adminis- 

 tration Legislation prior to 1900. Forest 

 Fire Legislation prior to 1900. Forest 

 Administration Legislation from 1900 to 

 1917. Forest Fire Legislation from 1900 

 to 1917. State and Federal Encourage- 

 ment to Private and Municipal Forestry. 

 A Summary of the Progress of State Legis- 

 lation prior to 1917. Federal Forest Legis- 

 lation. 



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whole question of a supply of pulpwood 

 for the future is of vital importance to the 

 Provinces of Quebec, Ontario and New 

 Brunswick, and the large increase in con- 

 sumption makes it necessary to plan for 

 the future. Heretofore and at present the 

 cutting is regulated simply on a diameter 

 limit basis, and this has by no means ful- 

 filled the purpose which was intended. The 

 operators have always gone along on the 

 comfortable assumption that uncut lands 

 uerc producing so much additional growth 

 each year that enough trees were being 

 ..it under tne diameter Imiit system to in- 

 sure a tut for the future and that the 

 supply was practically mexhaustible. ine 

 sudden rise in price of wood has com- 

 pelled them to give a little thought to this 

 matter, and it is hoped that the present 

 study being made will give us a sound 

 basis on wnich to discuss this question and 

 will lead to the obvious improvements in 

 cutting and handling of timber lands which 

 are necessary. Lumbering practice has no. 

 kept pace with mill practice and has not 

 yet availed itself to any very great extent 

 of the discoveries of modern forestry and 

 engineering. 



P. Z. Caverhill, in charge of forest sur- 

 veys in New Brunswick, has resigned to go 

 hack to the British Columbia Forest Ser- 

 \ ice and his place has been taken by G. H 

 Prince. This survey is beginning to open 

 the eyes of the New Brunswick Govern- 

 ment and it is hoped they will see the 

 necessity for an up-to-date Forest Service. 

 The stumpage dues of that province have 

 just been largely increased and the lumber- 

 men should demand an efficient manage- 

 ment of Crown Timber Lands. New Bruns- 

 wick should also reorganize its forest pro- 

 tection work and put it on an up-to-date 

 basis. 



.'\rnold Hanssen, for five years with the 

 Laurentide Co., Ltd., after completing his 

 two-years' course for the degree of Master 

 of Forestry at the Yale Forest School, in 

 one year, has enlisted in the Royal Army 

 Medical Corps and is training at the Val- 

 cartier Camp. 



The figures for the consumption of pulp- 

 wood for the year 1916 have just been 

 published by the Dominion F'orest Service 

 and show a large increase over 1915. The 

 total consumption for 1915 was 1,405,836 

 cords valued at $9,426,217 00, and that for 

 1916 was 1,764,912 cords valued at $13,- 

 104,458 00. The increase in the year in the 

 price per cord was seventy-one cents. The 

 increase in the consumption has increased 

 in the period from 1508 to 1916 over 265 

 per cent , and the price per cord during tlie 

 same period has increased 229 per cent 

 The increase in consumption if it con- 

 tinues at the same rate will necessitate the 

 most expert handling of the forests in order 

 to insure a supply for the future and the 

 increase in price will be more rapid than 

 it has been owing to the increasing scarcity 

 and inaccessibility of the supplies. 



The appointment of men to the outside 

 service of the Dominion Forest Branch con- 

 tinues to be nothing short of a scandal. The 

 District Foresters are compelled to consult 

 the local political boss before making ap- 

 I)ointments and men are forced on them 

 who are absolutely incompetent and often 

 physically incapacitated. The Canadian 

 Forestry Association made representations 

 to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, when he was 

 Premier, and has twice sent deputations 

 to Sir Robert Borden. Both Premiers 

 promised reforms, but nothing has been 

 done. It is high time that a stop was put 

 to this sort of thing for the good of the 

 country at large. British Columbia has put 

 its Forest Service on a merit basis and its 

 example should be followed by the Domin- 

 ion Government. 



In France German prisoners under their 

 own non-commissioned officers are working 

 at lumbering and enjoying it hugely. They 

 are said not to work very hard. The 

 Canadian bushmen are put on the more 

 technical jobs and superintendence. Much 

 of the lumbering is done by attaching ropes 

 and pulleys to the trunks of the trees and 

 after cutting the roots pulling them over. 



PLANTING PECANS 



"It has been found that pecans thrive in 

 Mississippi where I live," writes L. B. Fow- 

 ler, of Shubuta, Miss., "and 1 am repeatedly 

 asked : Does it pay to use dynamite to 

 p'.ant these trees? I put out 298 pecan 

 trees in February, 1915, using 75 pounds 

 of dynamite which, with caps and fuse, cost 

 me $15.00. I did not lose a single tree. I 

 have a neighbor that put out 46 trees in the 

 same locality, in the same kind of soil, at 

 the same time. He refused to blast his 

 holes because of the expense He lost 40 

 trees out of the 46 and is now replanting, 

 blasting all the holes this time. It cost me 

 thirty cents a tree to set my trees, and it 

 cost him twenty cents each to put his in the 

 ground the first time. As all kinds of ex- 

 plosives have advanced in price the past 

 year, it is costing him about thirty-five 

 cents per tree to replant, thus making his 

 total cost of planting fifty-five cents per 

 tree. In addition, he must count as ex- 

 pense what the trees that died cost him. 

 My trees are all thoroughly rooted by this 

 time, so he is just one year behind me and 

 always will be." 



IMPLEMENT BLUE BOOK 



The Midland Publishing Co., St. Louis, 

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 book has nearly 500 royal octavo pages and 

 contains complete classified descriptive lists 

 of all farming implements, tractors, tractor 

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