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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



companies have been the largest 

 and most consistent planters. 

 They began their planting effort 

 in 1 916, when six companies set 

 out 153,700 trees. During the 

 spring of 1919, 26 companies 

 planted a total of 565,775 trees. 

 While the planting by water 

 companies extends back only 

 over a period of four years, yet 

 44 different companies have al- 

 ready set out a total of 1,690,975 

 trees, that is over 18 ])er cent of 

 the total number distributed by 

 the Department of Forestry. 



The most promising develop- 

 ment of the past year is the in- 

 interest mining companies of 

 the state are taking in the sub- 

 ject of reforestation, 14 differ- 

 ent companies having committed 

 themselves to the policy of forest 

 tree planting. They are experi- 

 encing great difficulty in procur- 

 ing suitable mine timbers at a 



reasonable cost, and, having recently determined the 

 proI)ab]e duration of their operations, realize that it is 

 possible to grow timber of usable size on their own hold- 

 ings long before the products of their mines will be 

 exhausted. The scope of the planting effort of a few 

 of the mining companies during the 

 shown in the fi)llowina: talnilation : 



ME.\SURING THE HEIGHT GROWTH OF A PLANTATION OF 34,000 SCOTCH PINE TREES 

 The trees are eight years old and average 74 inches in height. One tree grew 52 inches in one season. 



pany, 37,100; Westmoreland Coal Company, 19,000, and 

 Cresson Refractories Company, 11,500. 



Private individuals and corporations are not indulging 

 in the practice of forest tree planting as a pastime, but 

 are conscientiously attempting to make their idle acres 

 j)ring of 1919 is attractive and productive, and stand ready to use the liest 

 forestry methods available in order to attain their goal. 

 Pittsburgh Coal Company planted 60,000 trees; Penn- The Pennsylvania De])artmcnt of Forestry surely acted 

 Mary Coal Company, 54,000; Colonial Colleries Com- aright when it inatigurated the co-operative scheme of 



]irivate planting, and the results 

 ilius far attained show that the 

 ])rivate planters have been given 

 ani]ile and good direction in their 

 untried undertaking. 



1 he measure of success at- 

 tained in the enter])rise can best 

 lie estimated I)y quoting from the 

 pLinting reports and correspond- 

 ence of the tree planters. One 

 tree planter writes that. "Of the 

 3,000 white jiine and Norway 

 spruce trees set out in the spring 

 of 1918 all but 17 are alive." 

 This represents an establishment 

 111" 99.4 ])er cent, and it is not 

 surjirising that he states that 

 "more ground will be cleared 

 this summer for ])lanting in 

 \')jo." Another ])lanter reports 

 that "the 1,400 trees shipped to 

 nte were received in good con- 

 dition, and jilanted personally by 

 A STAND OF PLANTED WHITE PINE i"^'- I handled cach one myself 



The kind o£ timber while pine gives when planted carefully and treated properly. aiul I am SO prOud of the rCSult, 



