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A Member: That is what I meant; shouldn't it have exercise? 



PROF. TOMHAVE: Yes, exercise has a tendency to do that to 

 some extent, but to what extent we don't know. 



MR. STEVENSON: Couldn't you do that by forgetting to feed the 

 hog every other day? 



PROF. TOMHAVP]: I am afraid not. The hog is like the human 

 person, he wants his meals as regular as you want yours, and for 

 that reason he should have them. 



A Member: Does it do any harm to stay in pickle a longer time? 



PROF. TOMHAVE: No, it does not. Are there any other ques- 

 tions? If there are no further questions I want to thank you. 



REPORT ON FORESTS AND FORESTRY 



By MIRA C. DOCK. 



Owing to the very recent date of my appointment to this honorable 

 Board, I ask your permission, to accept from me instead of a report, 

 a memorandum on projected work, which I hope will receive not 

 only approval, but valuable suggestions from the Board. 



The memorandum relates to both general and special means of re- 

 foresting waste farm lauds and hilly woodlands in our State. Every 

 one who travels considerably in our State has doubtless observed the 

 increased extent of cut-over hill lands, as for instance the north and 

 south boundaries of the Chester Valley, and other rich agricultural 

 valleys; the increased number of washed and gullied fields in the 

 rolling farm lands of Dauphin, Northumberland, Huntingdon and 

 other central counties, and also the vast destruction by means of 

 sleet, storms and floods in recent years, of trees bordering streams. 

 The general work for which I ask your approval is active co-opera- 

 tion with the State Department of Forestry in promoting a move- 

 ment for extensive and general reforestation of private woodlands 

 under the provisions of the Auxilliary Forest Act of 1918, copies of 

 which are appended: 



No. 269. 

 AN ACT 



To provide for the assessment and taxation of auxiliary forest reserves, and 

 the collection, distribution and use of the taxes collected therefrom. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all surface lands which may 

 hereafter be classified and set apart as auxiliary forest reserves, in 

 the manner provided by law, shall be rated in value, for the purpose 



