A DECADI-: ()|- PRIVATE FOREST PLANTING IN PENNSYLVANIA 



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MAKING IDLE ACRES PRODUCTIVE 

 A White Pine plantation four years after planting. 



able. Consequently, a new act was passed and approved 

 in 191 5 which authorized the Dei)artinent of Forestry to 

 grow young forest trees and distribute them to persons 

 desiring to jilant them within the state, tlic applicant pay- 

 iuij only the cost of packing and shipping. 



signihcance. The aggregate ex- 

 tent of tile planting effort during 

 the past decade is approximately 

 equal to planting of one tree for 

 each inhabitant of the state. 

 The future pronnses a still great- 

 er development of this com- 

 mendable effort, for the progres- 

 sive tendency of the movement is 

 indicated by the fact that more 

 trees were planted during the 

 past spring than during the first 

 seven years of the undertaking 

 ( 11MO-1916, inclusive). Further- 

 more, more than 34 per cent of 

 the total number of trees planted 

 during the past decade were set 

 out in the spring of 1919. The 

 number of applicaiits has in- 

 creased from 2T, in 1910 to 769 

 in the spring of 1919, and the 

 goal of the planting program for 

 the spring of 1920 is 1,000 pri- 

 vate planters. 



The average number of trees 

 distributed jier applicant in the spring of 1919 was 

 3,963, indicating that the average applicant reforested 

 approximately 2 to 3 acres. The applicants setting out 

 the largest number of trees during the spring of 1919 

 were the Scranton Gas and Water Company which 



The inqjetus which this act gave to forest tree plant- r^lanted 164,500 trees, and the Spring Brook Water 



ing by private owners of woodlands in Pennsylvania was Supply Company which planted 135,000 trees. Water 



almost phenomenal. The sub-joined tabulation shows 



the extent of the effort and the progress made during 



the past decade : 



Number of Trees Distributed 

 Year to Private Planters. 



1910 63,374 



1911 25,360 



191-2 66,854 



1913 47.770 



1914 108,685 



1915 115.577 



1916 I.471.875 



1 91 7 i,8i2,(;i)7 



1918 2,186,899 



1919 (spring) 3,047,485 



Total 8,946,876 



The principal species of trees set out by the private 

 planters are : 



Conifers Hardzvoods 



White Pine White Ash 



Norway Spruce Red Oak 



European Larch Sugar Maple 



Red Pine Black Walnut 



Scotch Pine Honey Locust 



Pitch Pine Wild Black Cherry 



American Elm 

 Willow (cuttings) 

 The i)lanting of forest trees by private owners of 

 woodland is now not only an established practice in 

 Pennsylvania, but is annually extending its sco])e and 



Plwlo hv w. 



Card Coiiklin 

 PLANTING A WHITE FINE SEEDLING 



The planting operation is simple, and one man should set out from 

 300 to 500 small trees per day. 



