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lumber as the size of the tree will per- 

 mit. The timber will be grown in the 

 shortest possible time. 



If we do not care to plant, and it 

 really is not necessary in many places, 

 the practice of good sane forestry will 

 cut our crop in such a manner that the 

 resulting conditions will be the best 

 possible for the future crop. It will 

 reproduce our stand to the species which 

 are the most valuable and it will de- 

 termine just when our crops should be 

 cut in order to yield the greatest finan- 

 cial return. It would also take into 

 consideration the market conditions. 

 For example, a practice of forestry 

 would not allow the cutting into cord- 

 wood or acid wood such trees as might 

 be sawn into $G0 lumber. 



In fact forestry means nothing more 

 nor less than getting the greatest yield 

 from a tract of woodland in the shortest 

 time at the least expense. 



From a forestry standpoint condi- 

 tions over the greater part of the Adi- 

 rondacks are very poor. As Gifford 

 Pinchot said recently, "Forestry is prac- 

 ticed everywhere in New York State 

 except in the woods." There are some 

 exceptions to this, of course, but in the 

 main it is very true. 



A crop started now would hardly be 

 mature by the time there is a serious 



.shortage of native timber and slumpage 

 will be a great deal more valuable than 

 at tlie present time. Bearing this in 

 mind, it is possible to do a great deal 

 ncjw that the present market conditions 

 do not warrant. 



Aside from the Adirondack and Cats- 

 kill regions there is a big opening for 

 fcM-cstry in connection with farms and 

 in llie establishment of communal for- 

 ests. There are over 4,000,000 acres 

 in farm wood lots and 2,000,000 acres 

 of unimproved farm land in New York 

 State. A great deal of this must re- 

 main under forest cover and where the 

 wood lots of the State are earning frrim 

 2") to 50 cents per acre per annum they 

 will furnish a net revenue under inten- 

 sive management of $4 to $5 per acre. 



To sum up, a proper regard for the 

 principles of forestry will keep our 

 forest cover intact or practically so, it 

 will do away with fire and will there- 

 fore make our hill and mountain sides 

 the much needed reservoirs for our 

 streams and thereby save the country 

 from the waste of floods and insure the 

 maximum amount of power to our in- 

 dustries, as well as furnish them a 

 maximum supply of wood. 



*Extracts from a recent bulletin issued by 

 the New York Conservation Commission. 



AFFORESTATION IN SOUTH MANCHURIA- 



Saplings of pine and acacia trees zvcre transplanted by hundreds of tJiousauds last year 

 on the bare hillsides extending from Sungshoushan to East Chikuanshan, Port Arthur. The 

 civil government office has decided to transplant over 800,000 saplings of scrub oak, pine, and 

 acacia in an area of about 360,000 tsubo (about 295 acres) on the same hillsides next year. 

 This will complete the afforestation program for the range of Jiills running in the shape of a 

 crescent along the northeast of the fortress town. 



FORESTS IN CHILE 



The Chilean Congress is seriously discussing a revision of the forestry laws of that 

 country zvith a viezv to preserving the large area of forests nozv in existence and to in- 

 creasing them in the arid portions of the country north of Valparaiso. During the past fezv 

 years large areas of forest lands have been cleared for agricultural purposes and it is stitl 

 going on. 



The forests of Chile contain severa\ classes of very useful timber, among them being 

 roble. knozi'n as Chile oak. and very useful where strength is required: rauli, valuable fo/ 

 furniture, giving a good polish and grain; lingue, noted for its excellent tanning bark, said 

 to equal the tree kiiozvn for this property; quillay, or soap tree, very valuable for its bark 

 for cleansing purposes (it yields also fair timber) ; ehno, or elm, that grows very large and 

 makes about the best light lumber produced in the country. 



