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A^IERICAN FORESTRY 



birches and maples, directly across the 

 road. The total height of the pine trees 

 is from one hundred to one hundred 

 and twenty feet. 



When Professor Roth, Dean of the 

 Michigan Forest School, visited these 

 trees recently, he said: "They remind 

 one of the big trees in California, and 

 should be saved at any cost." During 

 the twelve years that the Forester of 

 the Society for Protection of Forests 

 has been at work in New Hampshire, 

 he has seen no trees anywhere as fine. 

 They arc two hundred and fifty years 

 old, good for another century, and 



among the largest white pines that any 

 State has produced. 



By careful measurement each of the 

 two largest trees contains three thou- 

 sand feet, board measure. Everyone 

 familiar with timber knows that a 

 tree containing one thousand feet is 

 unusually large. 



The owner will give the land for a 

 reservation, and will sell the hardwood 

 timber at one-half price. He has, how- 

 ever, sold the pines and hemlocks to a 

 lumber dealer. About twenty-five big 

 trees have already been cut off, and it 

 is necessary to move quickly in order 

 to save the remaining twenty-one. 



CONSERVATION OF LIFE IN THE LUMBER 



CAMPS 



Bv Miss Mabel T. Boardman 



THE Red Cross Societies in all 

 countries, though primarily or- 

 ganized to take charge of vol- 

 unteer aid to the sick and wound- 

 ed in time of war, have broadened the 

 scope of their work to include the mit- 

 igating of suffering after great disas- 

 ters. To fulfil their duties successfully 

 and efticiently under both of these con- 

 ditions necessitates the maintenance of 

 a permanent, if .skeleton, organization 

 with a trained, skilled and experienced 

 personnel. This means not only an ex- 

 penditure of considerable funds, but 

 also the creation of departments for 

 special work. Organized and main- 

 tained, these departments have proved 

 not only of untold value during war or 

 disaster relief, but have become capa- 

 ble of rendering a constant, patriotic 

 and humane service to the country in 

 its every-day life. 



The vital statistics of our country are 

 as yet far from perfect, and no data 

 concerning accidents in the lumber in- 

 dustries could be obtained from the 

 Census Bureau. For this reason we 

 are forced to l)ase our statistics on 

 those obtained from the State of Wash- 

 ington, where 47,400 men are employed 

 in this industry. In twenty-three 

 months' time we find 251 fatal acci- 

 dents occurred, 900 persons perma- 

 nently partially disabled, and 8,420 suf- 



fered from temporary total disability. 

 To bring this down to monthly averages 

 gives us more than ten killed, forty- 

 three permanently partially disabled, 

 and three hundred and sixty-six tem- 

 porarily totally disabled in one month. 

 I note in his address last year. Major 

 E. T. Griggs said that 800,000 are em- 

 ployed in the lumber industry, one- 

 sixteenth of that number being em- 

 ployed in the State of Washington. 

 We have no reason that I know of to 

 assume that lumbering is a more haz- 

 ardous occupation in that State than in 

 any other. Therefore, I think we are 

 justified in multiplying the above fig- 

 ures by sixteen for one month, then 

 multiplying this by twelve to obtain a 

 rough estimate for accident statistics 

 in the entire lumber industry. This 

 will give us 1,920 killed, 8,256 perma- 

 nently partially disabled, and 70,272 

 temporarily totally disabled, annually; 

 or about 5 killed, 22 permanently par- 

 tially disabled and 182 temporarily 

 totally disabled a day. This is, of 

 course, an estimate based on the Wash- 

 ington statistics, and may not be ac- 

 curate as to the rest of the country. 

 Major Griggs, in his address, said: 

 "With an industry affecting through- 

 out the United States over 45,000 saw- 

 mills and 800,000 employes, regardless 

 of families dependent on them, you will 



