STATE NEWS 



Missouri 



The Board of Curators of the University of 

 Missouri at its regular meeting February 18, 

 1914, delegated the administration of the 

 College Lands to the Department of Forestry 

 of the College of Agriculture. The College 

 Lands comprise more than 50,000 acres in the 

 Ozark Region of Missouri. They are the 

 remnant of the land grant received by the 

 University from the United States under the 

 terms of the Morrill Act of 1862. These lands 

 are chiefly valuable for forestry and the 

 Department of Forestry has formulated plans 

 for their administration and utilization. 



On vesting the management of these lands 

 in the Department of Forestry, the Board of 

 Curators has provided the funds necessary for 

 meeting the expenses of administration, includ- 

 ing the employment of forest wardens for local 

 patrol work. Four forests will be organized 

 this spring, a field force built up, and bound- 

 aries established and posted. Sales of stump- 

 age will be made where advantageous. 



Special funds were also provided for a 

 reconnaissance survey and the Department of 

 Forestry expects to cover the whole area this 

 summer. Work will start June 15, directly 

 after the close of class work at Columbia, and 

 will continue for three months. Two parties 

 will be maintained in the field. The Depart- 

 ment of Forestry will give its whole attention 

 to this field work and to a study of the wood 

 using industries of the state during the coming 

 summer; no Summer Forest Camp will be 

 opened this summer, since with the change in 

 the curriculum the Camp has been advanced 

 from the end of the sophomore to the end of 

 the junior year. 



OJiio 



The Ohio Forester, the organ of the Ohio 

 State Forestry Society, will hereafter have a 

 certain portion of each number edited by the 

 faculty and students of the Forestry Depart- 

 ment of the Ohio State University. 



By this means the department of the 

 University will have a publication and at the 

 same time the Forester will be strengthened 

 and increased in its scope. 



Mr. Edmund Secrest, chief of the Depart- 

 ment of Forestry of the Ohio Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, has just returned from 

 Europe, wliere he spent the past autumn and 

 winter studying forest conditions in several 

 European states. 



Vermont 



At the last session of the Vermont Legis- 

 lature, the State appropriated $10,000 to the 

 Agricultural College for agricultural extension 

 work. An Extension Department of the 

 College has been formed, and luunerous short 

 courses have been given in the rural com- 

 munities of the State. One of the faculty of 



this School, is a trained forester. Mr. B. A. 

 Chandler, who is a graduate of the Yale 

 Forest School. In his connection with the 

 Forestry Department of the State Mr. Chand- 

 ler has become well acquainted with the local 

 conditions and is, therefore, well able to give 

 the farmers and the timber land owner? the 

 kind of information which they must have in 

 dealing with their woodlands. Particular 

 interest is manifested in the matter of timber 

 estimating. The farmers are beginning to 

 realize that they have, in many cases, sold 

 their timber for much less than it was worth. 

 Now that the Lever Bill has passed Congress, 

 a much larger sum will be available for the 

 Agricultural College for extension work, and 

 it is hoped that forestry will receive its fair 

 proportion of this sum, since the Congressional 

 allotment is on the basis of similar allotments 

 by the states, and Vermont is spending as 

 much for forestry work as for any other branch 

 --f agriculture. 



Kentucky 



The fire situation had already assumed 

 serious aspect in certain parts of the State when 

 rains and snows came along and put a stop to 

 the fire danger for a brief period. Approxi- 

 mately March 15 about thirty patrolmen will 

 be appointed in the Eastern part of the State 

 in as many counties, and an additional district 

 patrolman will be appointed. In addition to 

 these appointments, two county forest pro- 

 tective associations in Bell and Harlan Counties, 

 respectively, are in the process of organization. 

 A similar cooperative association among the 

 timber land owners of Rowan County is doing 

 effective work. The County Forest Pro- 

 tective Association of Harlan County is con- 

 templating an assessment of one cent per acre 

 on its members for fire protective work. In 

 view of this cooperation on the part of private 

 timber holding companies with the office of 

 the State Forester, it seems probable that the 

 fire hazard will be greatly reduced during the 

 year of 1914. At the Louisville Nursery the 

 spring planting is under way and it is expected 

 very materially to increase the capacity of 

 this nursery. 



The State Forester has been giving a series 

 of six lectures on History of Forestry and For- 

 est Policies at the State University at Lexing- 

 ton. This is the beginning of an effort to 

 make forestry a live issue at the State Uni- 

 versity. 



Pennsylvania 



At the meeting of the Reservation Commis- 

 sion for March 15 new permanent camp sites 

 were leased, bringing the total number of 

 permanent camps leased upon State lands 

 close to one hundred. 



A new house for the forester of the Rothrock 

 Forest in Mifflin County, and a new house for 



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