WORK IN A NATIONAL FOREST 

 Lumbering Operations under Forest Service Rules — Young Timber Left Standing 



protection and ornamentation of the sta- 

 tion grounds and rights of way. This 

 work will be continued until all station 

 groimds and unoccupied spaces on the 

 right of way are parked, that they may 

 afford as much pleasure as possible to 

 the public. Besides reforesting old 

 farmland and other open areas as in the 

 past, the field planting this year has re- 

 stocked certain areas which were logged 

 during 1907, and has underplanted cer- 

 tain old locust plantations which needed 

 interspersed trees to stimulate their 

 growth in height and to regulate their 

 form development. 



In addition, it is believed that the con- 

 servative lumbering and the forest 



planting, which the company is conduct- 

 ing on its woodlots and farmlands, 

 which are not now needed for other 

 purposes, will serve as an object-lesson 

 for farmers, and provide an incentive to 

 intelligent forest development on the 



part of the public generally. 



It is expected by the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad Company that in case no sub- 

 stitute for the wooden tie is developed 

 during the next thirty-five or forty 

 years, the company will have available a 

 portion of the enormous supply of tim- 

 ber needed for cross-ties, which, at the 

 present time, are becoming exceedingly 

 expensive. 



