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nursery will be furnished to the people 

 of the State either at cost or free, a 

 matter which has not, as yet, been fully 

 determined. The nursery at Frankfort 

 will be on a slightly different footing. 

 The land on which the niirsery will be 

 established is controlled by the trustees 

 of the Kentucky Nonnal and industrial 

 School for Colored Persons. In addition 

 to raising stock for the use of the citizens 

 of the State, an effort will be made to 

 teach the negro students such nursery 

 practice, planting and care of trees as 

 will enable them to qualify as care- 

 takers of grounds, trees and groves on 

 private estates, since there is a real 

 demand for this character of knowledge 

 and no supply of intelligent labor from 

 which to draw. 



The work, then, in Kentucky is 

 shaping up along some pretty well 



defined lines, as follows: (1) forest 

 protection; (2) education; (3) forest ex- 

 tension, i. e., encouraging the planting of 

 forest trees by supplying the material; 

 (4) encouraging private owners to take 

 up the scientific management of their 

 tracts; (5) acquiring suitable tracts for 

 State forests. It is expected that the 

 work in the immediate future will 

 develop largely in these directions. An 

 effort will probably be made at the next 

 session of the Legislature to secure a 

 method of taxation favorable to the 

 reforesting of suitable areas. Also it 

 is expected that a law will be passed 

 permitting the establishment of National 

 Forests within the borders of the State. 

 At any rate it now appears as if the 

 forest policy for the State were on a 

 sound footing. 



AN EXHIBIT AT THE FOREST PRODUCTS 



EXPOSITION 



At its annual meeting on January 

 / \ 14 The American Forestry Asso- 

 i V ciation decided to have exhibits 

 at the Forest Products Exposi- 

 tion to be held at Chicago April 30 to 

 May 9 and at New York City May 21 

 to May 30. 



According to advice received at the 

 Chicago headquarters the exhibits of 

 the lumber and allied associations alone 

 will provide one of the most interesting 

 and instructive displays ever arranged 

 for an industrial exhibit in this country. 

 It has practically been decided that the 

 United States Forestry Service will 

 display a number of most instructive 



incidentals to the service, including 

 Fire tower, Equipment station, Tim- 

 bersale models, Erosion models. Relief 

 map. Mine timbers, Greenhouse bench- 

 boards. Collection of scientific instru- 

 ments. National forest model. Wood 

 utilization exhibit. Wood distillation 

 exhibit. Paper pulp exhibit, Timber 

 testing exhibit, Wood preservation ex- 

 hibit, Specimens of wood waste products 

 manufactured from such waste and 

 Bromides, transparencies, maps and 

 charts. It is understood that some of 

 the State forestry divisions will make 

 exhibits. 



The war department is reforesting a large area near Fort Bayard, New Mexico, for use as an 

 army hospital site. 



The light house reservations on the great lakes are able to groiv all the white cedar needed for spar 

 buoys in their district. 



The Kaibab and the Coconino national forests adjoin each other. Yet it takes from two to three 

 days to go from one to the other across the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 



