A DECADE OF PRIVATE FOREST PLANTING IN PENNSYLVANIA 



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that I would rather plant trees than eat." Another apph- 

 cant reports that, "I have been planting from i,ooo to 

 1,200 trees each year, and they are doing well. I expect 

 to continue planting until the present tract of 25 acres is 

 full of trees, and then begin on other lands." This 

 applicant has a real constructive planting plan based 

 upon some of the best principles of scientific forestry. It 

 incorporates the fundamentals of sustained yield, and 

 there will be developed ultimately a normal gradation of 

 age classes, which some think exists only in continental 

 Europe. The most satisfying and promising report was 

 received from a life long lumberman who wrote as 

 follows : "Enclosed please find an application for 20,000 

 forest tree seedlings to be planted in Towanda township, 

 Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The land which I 

 desire to reforest is rapidly growing up to a great 

 variety of woods, but there are open places where the 

 timber growth is insufficient and the creation of a new 

 forest can be assist- 

 ed by planting. The 

 land will never be 

 lumbered again as 

 long as it remains 

 in the hands of the 

 present owner. The 

 writer has been a 

 life long lumberman 

 and has removed the 

 lumber from a great 

 many thousand acres 

 of land in three dif- 

 ferent states, and 

 now desires to aid 

 in the development 

 of forest growth and 

 not in 'its destruc- 

 tion'," 



The foregoing quotations from practical tree planters 

 should not only support but strengthen our faith in forest 

 tree planting. The accomplishments of the past are small 

 compared with the possibilities of the future. There are 

 many owners of woodland within the state who are able 

 and willing to plant forest trees on their holdings, if they 

 are informed concerning the attractive co-operative 

 scheme of the Department of Forestry. 



The cost of the trees to the applicant is exceedingly 

 low. The following orders shipped during the spring of 

 1919 may serve as examples of the range of cost. An 

 applicant received 5,000 white pine (2 years old) and 

 5,000 Norway spruce (2 years old). The total cost of 



this shipment at the jilanting site was $7.00, distributed 



as follows : 



Packing and hauling $3-25 



Express charge 2.75 



Drayage to planting site i.oo 



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A FOREST TREE NURSERY AT CLEARFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA 



It produces over one million seedlings and transplants annually. The trees are removed from 

 the nursery at the age of two to five years. 



Total $7.00 



Another ap])licant received 500 white pine (3 years 

 old) and 500 Norway spruce (3 years old) at a total 

 cost of 63 cents of which 35 cents were for packing and 

 hauling and 28 cents for postage. A third applicant re- 

 ceived 1,000 white pine (4 years old) and 1,000 red pine 

 (3 years' old) at a total cost of $1.31, of which 65 cents 

 were for packing and hauling and 66 cents for postage. 

 The conditions upon which the trees are distributed are 

 very simple and reasonable. The applicant agrees : 



I. To pay the cost of boxing, hauling, and trans- 

 portation as soon as the seedlings are received. 



2. To plant the 

 trees in Pennsyl- 

 vania for reforesta- 

 tion. 



3. That the trees 

 shall not be ofifered 

 for sale, or sold. 



4. That the trees 

 shall be planted in 

 accordance with in- 

 structions furnished 

 by the Department 

 of Forestry. 



5. To furnish a 

 report on the plant- 

 ing when requested. 



6. T h a t t h e 

 planted area will be 

 protected from tres- 

 pass, fire, and grazing, so far as lies in his power. 



7. That the subsequent treatment of the plantation 

 will be in accordance with the principles of scientific 

 forestry, information as to which will be furnished by 

 the Department of Forestry on application, without 

 charge. 



The foregoing conditions show clearly that the real 

 goal of the effort is not the placement of a large number 

 of orders and the resultant distribution of millions of 

 small trees, but rather the successful establishment of 

 many promising stands of trees all over the state which 

 will be developed to maturity in accordance with the 

 principles of scientific forestry. 





OFFICES OF MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF FORESTRY DESTROYED BY FIRE. 



The offices of the Maryland State Board of Forestry in McCoy Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, were destroyed by 

 fire on November 27. With the exception of some publications and exhibit material, which was kept in another building, everything 

 was destroyed, including valuable records representing several years of field study and investigation, a report in manuscript form, 

 700 lantern slides, some 1500 photographic negatives, about 3000 photographs, a forest library of some 200 volumes, together with a 

 nearly complete set of state publications on Forestry, and publications of the Federal Forest Service. 



One of the most serious losses was that of the files containing the mailing lists and official records, which cover a period of 

 thirteen years of State Forestry work. In some respects it is necessary to begin the work over again, although the published 

 reports contain a record of fair accomplishment. 



Since the mailing list will have to be entirely remade, it is important that those who wish to secure future publications of the 

 Maryland State Board of Forestry, should make application to be entered on the new mailing list. 



