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fire seasons. Emergency allotments were made as follows: Maine, 

 $17,600; Vermont, SI, 000; Massachusetts, $1,100; Rhode Island, 

 S500; Connecticut, $1,600; New York, $2,900; New Jersey, $1,400; 

 Maryland, $200; and Washmgton, $1,400. The funds for these al- 

 lotments were secured from unexpended balances in the allotments 

 to States which had subnormal fire seasons during the summer of 

 1921, and by other economies. The total allotments to States, in- 

 cludmg these emergency allotments, were as follows: 



Cooperative expenditure in fire protection under the Weeks law, fiscal year 1922. 



state. 



Federal. 



Maine 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



Maryland 



Virginia 



West Virginia 



North Carolina 



Tennessee 



Louisiana 



Texas 



Ohio , 



Michigan : 



Wisconsin 



Minnesota 



South Dakota 



Montana 



Idaho, north 



Idaho, south 



Washington 



Oregon 



California 



Administration and inspection 



Total 



$42, 

 8, 

 4, 



11, 

 1, 

 4, 



26, 



7, 

 27, 



3, 

 16, 



6, 



9, 

 10, 

 12, 

 10, 



25, 

 12, 

 27, 



8, 

 16, 



3, 

 24, 

 27, 

 22, 

 25, 



150.00 

 787. 08 

 150.00 

 450.00 

 055.09 

 750.00 

 892.84 

 950.00 

 500.00 

 000.00 

 786. 55 

 655. 58 

 506.91 

 381. 58 

 600.00 

 500.00 

 143.03 

 000.00 

 650.86 

 300.00 

 100.00 

 746. 03 

 800.00 

 146.16 

 900.00 

 455. 38 

 749. 98 

 792. 12 



State. 



$228, 632. 24 



45, 526. 21 



11,933.62 



67,316.11 



6, 384. 59 



17,181.11 



163, 371. 19 



34, 831. 57 



512, 190. 56 



6, 722. 79 



16, 786. 55 



9, 186. 19 



9, 506. 92 



11,566.84 



39, 771. 88 



14, 004. 35 



679.00 



140, 367. 48 



17, 308. 23 



233,011.47 



7, 724. 00 



15, 480. 00 



39,985.95 



S, 784. 75 



69,034.03 



107, 649. 63 



61, 983. 17 



Total. 



$270,782.24 

 54, 313. 29 

 16,083.62 

 78, 766. 11 

 7, 439. 68 

 21,931.11 



190, 264. 03 

 42,781.57 



539, 690. 56 

 9,722.79 

 33, 573. 10 

 15,841.77 

 19, 013. 83 

 21, 948. 42 

 52, 371. 88 

 24, 504. 35 

 822. 03 



165, 367. 48 

 29, 959. 09 



260,311.47 

 7, 824. 00 

 24, 226. 03 

 56,785.95 

 11,930.91 

 93,934.03 



135, 105. 01 

 84, 733. 15 

 25,792.12 



398,899.19 | 1,896,920.43 



2,295,819.62 



Unexpended balance, $1,100.81; appropriation, $400,000. 



During the last six years the Forest Service has made an attempt 

 to secure nation-wide information on the forest-fire situation. These 

 data indicate that the number of forest fires averaged 33,500 annually. 

 The area of forest land burned was 7,088,000 acres annually, and the 

 immediate property loss was $16,424,000. The number of fires in 

 1921 was 38,400, which is more than the average, but the area of 

 forest land burned in that year, 4,737,000 acres, was considerably 

 under the average for the 6-year period, though the year was very 

 dry and the fire hazard extreme in some portions of the country. It 

 is significant that in the southeastern group of States — North Carolina, 

 South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi, of which 

 only North Carolina is organized for forest-fire protection — the area of 

 forest land burned- in 1921 was 58 per cent of the total in the United 

 States, and the damage to timber was 49 per cent of the total damage 

 in. the country. 



About half of the forest lands of the country outside of the national 

 forests receive some form of systematic protection. Approximately 

 166,000,000 acres of privately owned forest land are wholly unpro- 

 tected from fire, and on many other areas the protection is incomplete 

 and inadequate. There is organized State effort in only 26 out of 

 the 39 States which contain extensive forest areas. A yearly ex- 

 2.5684— AGR 1923 15 



