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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



1. It was raised from seed in the nursery of the per- 

 son from whom it was jjurchased. 



2. It was raised in a nursery which contains no im- 

 ported 5-needkd pines nor imported currants or goose- 

 berries. 



3. It was raised in a nursery which is. and has always 

 been, free from white pine blister rust on 5-needled pines 

 and on currants or gooseberries. These conditions and 

 these only will insure absolute freedom from this disease. 

 A certificate of inspection showing that the disease is 

 not now present in the nursery is valueless, because it is 

 absolutely impossible to determine the freedom of a 

 nursery by inspection alone. 



If you have a general interest in the preservation of 

 the white pines of your vicinity, communicate with your 

 state officials and legislators, calling attention to this 

 serious trouble and the desirability of immediate and 

 efficient action against it. The matter of the placing of 

 a state quarantine with reference to this disease is one 

 which should be seriously considered, especially by those 

 states which are not known to have any of the disease. 

 On February 4 the Federal Horticultural Board of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture held a hear- 

 ing concerning the advisability of placing a federal quar- 

 antine upon the shipment of all 5-leaved pines and of 

 cultivated black currants from the states in which the 

 disease is now known to be present. It is very prolj- 

 able that some means of controling the shipment of such 

 stock will be put in force. Attention should be called, 

 however, to the fact that the disease may later be found 

 in almost any other state of the country. It is there- 

 fore very desirable that each of the states protect itself 

 by local action so far as is possible. 



NORTH CAROLINA'S MEETING 



AT the Sixth Annual Convention of the North 

 /-\ Carolina Forestry Association, held in Xewbern, 

 X. C, Air. C. L. Ives, president of the Xewbern 

 Chamber of Commerce, in welcoming the delegates, re- 

 ferred to the fact that it was there that the North Carolina 

 State Forestry Association was formed eighteen years 

 ago. Mr. Ives himself was elected president at that time, 

 and the main question then discussed was of securing 

 protection against forest fires. President Xathan O'Berry, 

 who is also president of the Xorth Carolina Pine As- 

 sociation, dealt, in his annual address, on the great need 

 for educational and propaganda work. He appealed to 

 the lumbermen and timberland owners to support the 

 movement and said : "When you consider that in eastern 

 Carolina alone more than $2,000,000 annually is paid 

 out for standing timber, does not this great industry 

 seem worth perpetuating?" Mr. W. W. Ashe, of the 

 Forest Service, in a paper on "The Future Use of Pine 

 Land," insisted that even in eastern Xorth Carolina, 

 where a large part of the land would eventually be used 

 for agriculture, "the owners of land now in mature timber 

 must see that the timl)er is cut with due regard to the 

 future earning value of the property ; the owner with 

 young growth must defer the cutting of that until it has 



reached its ma.ximum rate of value increment and so 

 cut as to secure that increment; the holder of cut-over 

 lands must see that they are properly stocked and that 

 there is no waste or nonproductive area." 



Mr. C. I. Millard, president of the John L. Roper 

 Lumber Company of Norfolk, among other things brought 

 cut strongly the need for State experimental and demon- 

 stration forests, and offered to give the necessary land 

 for such an area in the Loblolly Pine region. This offer 

 was accepted by the State geologist on behalf of the 

 Geological Board, which has recently been empowjered 

 l)y the Legislature to receive gifts of land for this 

 purpose. 



Addresses by Mr. R. E. Parker, secretary of the Audu- 

 bon Society of North Carolina, on "Game and Shore 

 Birds as a State Asset," and l.)y Professor John J. Blair, 

 superintendent of the City Schools of Wilmington, on 

 "Arbor Day in C)ur Public Schools," were the features 

 of the afternoon session. An illustrated lecture at night, 

 on "Forest Conservation," by Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt. 

 State geologist, brought the regular sessions to a close. 



Mr. C. C. Smoot, III, of North Wilkesboro, was 

 elected president, and Mr. J. S. Holmes, of Chapel Hill, 

 was reelected secretary-treasurer. A special committee, 

 composed of Mr. Guy A. Cardwell, Dr. Joseph Hyde 

 Pratt and Mr. R. R. Cotten, was appointed to draft reso- 

 lutions regarding the death of Dr. J. A. Holmes. In 

 reporting, this committee referred to the splendid work 

 Dr. Holmes had accomplished in starting forest con- 

 servation work in North Carolina, endorsed the Josepli 

 .'Vastin Holmes "Safety First" Association and pledged 

 the aid of the Forestry Association to the endowment of 

 that memorial. 



Resolutions were also adopted urging the continuance 

 of the annual appropriation of $2,000,000 for the pur- 

 chase of land under the Weeks Law, demanding that the 

 Federal appropriation for co-operating with States in fire 

 prevention be made permanent and asking Congress to 

 aid in the suppression of the white pine blister rust. 



FOREST STUDENTS' PLANS 



F>1\ ten weeks during the coming summer, a party 

 I if students and their instructors from the De- 

 partment of Forestry at Cornell will be in camp 

 on a forested tract at the south end of Saratoga Lake. 

 This summer course in i)ractical forestry in the woods 

 forms a regular part of the work in the third, or sum- 

 mer, ternT at the State College of Agriculture, and the 

 transfer of faculty and students from Ithaca to a forest 

 area is made for the purpose of getting first-hand infor- 

 mation in the woods themselves. The instructors feel 

 tliat ])ractical woods work can be satisfactorilv taught 

 only in the forest. The summer term is of the same 

 length and character of work as the spring and fall 

 terms, and the same schedules of lectures and examina- 

 tions are required. It differs from the other courses 

 only in the fact that the woods take the place of the 

 classrooms. Courses will include forest measurements, 

 forest utilization, the study of tree growth, and forest 

 management. 



