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tions for permits some time in advance 

 of the time when they considered trim- 

 ming necessary. The State Forester 

 furnished to the companies blank appH- 

 cations for permits, which the com- 

 panies are now filhng in and sending to 

 the State Forester. 



W'hile all the details of administra- 

 tion have not as yet been worked out 

 there does not seem to be any insuper- 

 able difficulty in working the problem 



out along these lines. In each county 

 an inspector, trained and instructed in 

 this work by the State Forester, will 

 personally supervise the more impor- 

 tant jobs and in turn instruct the local 

 Forest Wardens in the counties in the 

 principles and methods of procedure. 



A considerable improvement in the 

 appearance of the roadside trees in 

 Maryland is confidently expected as a 

 result of the operation of this law. 



FIRE PROTECTIVE WORK 



MONROE County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, has been the first to try 

 out the new supplementary 

 acts, passed by the last legis- 

 lature, which provide for the appoint- 

 ment of State Foresters to act as Dis- 

 trict Foresters in designated counties, 

 and also for a system of fire patrol. Dis- 

 trict Forester John L. Strobeck has 

 made two interesting reports upon the 

 practical working of the new laws. 



The spring fire season of 1914 was 

 unusually favorable to outbreaks of 

 forest fires. There were thirty-six in 

 all ; but some were detected so quickly 

 and put out so promtly that they were 

 not considered important enough to be 

 included in the official reports of the 

 w^ardens. Mr. Strobeck considers this 

 an error and advises that every fire 

 should hereafter be included in the re- 

 ports sent to the Commissioner of 

 Forestry. Four thousand eight hun- 

 dred and forty-two acres- were burned 

 over, in dififerent parts of the county. 

 The causes of the fires, according to 

 the reports of the wardens, were as 

 follows : 



Unknown, G ; railroads, 15 ; lighted 

 tobacco, (5 ; incendary, 5 ; brush burning, 

 3, and lightning, 1. 



The Pocono Protective Fire Associa- 

 tion of Monroe County, took advantage 

 of the recent Act of Legislature, No. 

 432, to inaugurate a fire patrol in con- 

 junction with the Department of For- 

 estry. Two patrolmen were appointed 

 to try out the new system, and the 

 results oi the trial have been so satis- 

 factory that the District Forester is urg- 

 ing an increase in the number of patrol- 

 men before the autumn fire season 

 comes around. Me also recommends 

 the establishment of telephone connec- 

 tion with the lookout stations, the dis- 

 tribution of posters, and improvements 

 in apparatus for extinguishing fires. 



The cost to the State for fighting 

 these fires amounted to $282.13. To 

 this sum must be added the cost of 

 maintaining two patrolmen for two 

 months, $101.00 on the part of the State, 

 and $100.00 on the part of the Pocono 

 Protective Fire Association. 



WANTED BACK NUMBERS 



Members of American Forestry As- ing copies: Xovember, 1908. 

 sociation who have back numbers of October, 1911. 



Amkrtcan Forestry, will confer a February, 1912. 



great favor upon the Association if .April, 1912. 



thev will sell to it anv of the follow- May. 1912. 



