1908 



NEWS AND NOTES 



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ber across the continent. These grades, 

 which form a considerable part of the 

 tree, will therefore be wa>:ted, since 

 they cannot be utilized if they are cut 

 off from the Eastern market. 



What the The Governor of Ohio 



Governor of ^j-ges on the Legislature 



Ohio Says ,, =• ° , r 



^ the encouragement of 



forestry in the State. He says in 

 his message: "The forests of Ohio 

 are disappearing. Unless some pro- 

 tection is given, they will soon pass 

 away. If our State Constitution 

 would permit a low valuation or a re- 

 bate of taxes on woodland dedicated 

 for a period of years to reforestry, it 

 would give encouragement. Iowa, 

 Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New 

 Hampshire, Colorado, Indiana, Maine, 

 Rhode Island and Wisconsin have 

 enacted laws reducing taxation to en- 

 courage the growing of forests. 



"1 suggest that article 12, section 

 2, of our Constitution be amended so 

 the Legislature can give encourage- 

 ment to reforesting our denuded lands 

 and protecting existing forests by re- 

 ducing or omitting the taxes thereon. 



"In many parts of the State the 

 growing of trees, as the growing of 

 corn and wheat, would have a com- 

 mercial value. 



"The Experiment Station at Wooster 

 has commenced the encouragement of 

 planting along this line. Since 1904 

 it has sent out more than half a mil- 

 lion seedling trees to 466 farmers in 

 84 of the counties of the State. The 

 Station has also taken up the work 

 on lands of the State occupied by the 

 Boys' Industrial School near Lancas- 

 ter, where it found several hundred 

 acres of second growth forest now in 

 good condition for the experiment. 



"I highly approve of the interest the 

 Board of Control of the Experiment 

 Station has taken in this work, and 

 recommend further encouragement to 



the people in forest growing." 



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The Board of Trade of 

 &'Guid?It Grand Rapids, Mich., 



IS workmg for the Ap- 

 palachian National Forests, and adopt- 



ed some days ago the following resolu- 

 tion : 



"Resolved, that the Congress of the 

 United States be, and it hereby is, 

 strongly urged to enact into law the 

 Appalachian Bill, providing for the 

 establishment of National Forests in 

 the White Mountains of New Hamp- 

 shire and in the Southern Appalach- 

 ians." 



In discussing the resolution, Mr. 

 Charles W. Garfield, one of the direc- 

 tors of the Board, and President of 

 the Forest Investigating Commission, 

 spoke as follows : 



"The principal contention for mak- 

 ing a permanent Government reserva- 

 tion of a considerable portion of the 

 Appalachian Mountain region lies in 

 the fact that it is the principal region 

 from which we must secure our hard- 

 woods to meet the demands of wood- 

 working industries in our country. 



"In the last decade quarter-sawed 

 oak went from $52 to $80 per thous- 

 and ; hickory from $30 to $65 ; yellow 

 poplar, or white wood, from $30 to 

 $53 ; hard maple from $20 to $32.50. 

 This appreciation in values has not 

 come so much from the greater de- 

 mand as from the diminished supply, 

 and although we are slow to recog- 

 nize it we are on the border of a 

 hardwood famine. In support of this 

 fact we have only to note the great 

 reduction in the output of hardwood 

 lumber from the States which have 

 produced the " largest supply of this 

 important raw material. The supply 

 from Indiana and Ohio, which was at 

 one time the center of the hardwood 

 industry, is practicaly exhausted. The 

 supply from Michigan is rapidly drib- 

 bling away. 



"The region best adapted to the 

 growth of hardwoods, and which, if 

 properly handled, can produce a con- 

 tinuous supply, is the elevation of land 

 known as the Appalachian range of 

 mountains. The region extends from 

 Maine to Georgia, including New 

 Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, 

 New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, 

 West Virginia. Virginia, Kentucky, 

 Tennessee, North Carolina, South Car- 



