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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



the Government, are allowed to reach tim- 

 ber size. 



Idaho 



Seeds from 20,000 bushels of white pine 

 cones, recently gathered on the Kaniksu 

 national forest reserve, in Northern Idaho, 

 will be planted on the Coeur d'Alene, St. Joe, 

 lyolo and Cabinet forests in districts swept 

 by fire in the summer of 1910. 



A seed extracting mill is being installed 

 by the Government at the Falls Ranger sta- 

 tion, and it is expected to secure 14,000 

 pounds of seed at a cost of about $1 a pound. 



Henry H. Farquhar, chief of planting of 

 the United States Forest Service, who is 

 in Spokane, reports that the cones were 

 collected entirely from the squirrel caches. 

 Operations were spread over a territory 22 

 miles in length and five miles in width, 100 

 men being located in four camps, each with 

 two cooks and a camp foreman. 



The men were paid by the day, with a 

 bonus if they averaged a certain number 

 of sacks each day. Several collected more 

 than 10 two-bushel sacks a day during the 

 30 days they were at work. 



Pennsylvania 



The Sharpsville, Pa., station of the Balti- 

 more & Ohio Railroad is being cited as 

 evidence that some of the so-called "soulless 

 corporations" are not so soulless after all. 

 At Sharpsville the railroad company pur- 

 chased extra land for tracks and a station 

 in order to allow two beautiful specimens 

 of the silver leaf maple tree to keep on 

 growing on the right of way, although by 

 chopping them down many hundreds of dol- 

 lars would have been saved. 



When the engineers ran their lines into 

 town the plans called for the tracks to be 

 laid over the ground now occupied by the 

 trees. Then some of the officers of the 

 company inspected the route and discovered 

 tho trees, and some lovers of trees made 

 pleas for the preservation of the trees. 



The pleas were heeded and the engineers 

 had to run new lines and make plans for 

 a curved track in order that the trees might 

 stand undisturbed. 



A similar condition cannot be found 

 throughout the country, according to travel- 

 ling men. It is not uncommon for strangers 

 to stop and wonder at the sight of the trees 

 growing between railroad tracks. 



Michigan 



In his report to the directors of the North- 

 ern Forest Protective Association, Chief 

 Forester Thomas B. Wyman, of Michigan, 

 said that the total loss suffered last year 

 on lands over which the patrol existed was 

 less than $6,000. Many fires were extin- 

 guished in their incipiency. 



There are nineteen wardens in the service 



of the association, and it was decided at 

 the annual meeting to provide mounts for 

 these men. The mounted forest rangers of 

 the upper peninsula may, therefore, be ex- 

 pected to become picturesque figures. 



It was the intention of the directors to 

 raise the tax levy to seven-eights of a cent 

 an acre, in order to enlarge the scope of 

 the work of protecting the forests against 

 fires, but it developed that the increase of 

 acreage expected the coming year will af- 

 ford sufficient funds at the old rate of five- 

 eights of a cent an acre. The committee, 

 however, reserves the right of calling further 

 assessments in case the season should be 

 particularly dry and necessitates additional 

 precautions. 



Massachusetts 



The chestnut blight which has made its 

 appearance in Massachusetts, has resulted in 

 the placing on the market of considerable 

 standing chestnut timber which, will become 

 affected unless it is cut and used. The State 

 owns as a reserve what is known as "Squaw 

 peak" on Monument Mountain, and the State 

 officials have decided that it is the ad- 

 vantage of the State to dispose of the stand- 

 ing chestnut that is on this reserve, and a 

 number of contractors have been figuring on 

 certain sections of it. There is quite a large 

 quantity of chestnut timber on the mountain 

 and most of it will probably be cut off. In- 

 dividual owners are also becoming alarmed 

 on account of the blight, and it is probable 

 that considerable chestnut timber that has 

 been held for a number of years will be 

 disposed of within a short time. 



New Hampshire 



In the interest of further promoting 

 forestry in the State of New Hampshire, 

 the State Forest Commission have just issued 

 an interesting circular, together with infor- 

 mation that such tree-planted land will be 

 subject to a tax rebate of 90 per cent the 

 first 10 years, 80 per cent the next 10 years, 

 and 50 per cent for the third period of 10 

 years. 



Nearly every farmer or large land owner 

 has some unproductive land on which he is 

 paying taxes and gettine no return. Such 

 land, if planted to trees, will increase in 

 value rapidly. Moreover, forest-planting in 

 this region is no longer in the experimental 

 stage. Enough plantations have been made 

 to demonstrate the success of planting certain 

 kinds of trees, and experience has developed 

 cheap methods of planting. In the spring 

 of 1911 the Forestry Commission distributed 

 230,000 trees. Reports made by the owners 

 indicate that about eighty per cent of these 

 trees survived the extreme drought of last 

 summer and are growing well. 



New Jersey 

 The New Jersey State Forest Commission 



