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ARBORICULTURE 



A Candid Lumberman 



1111 Union Ave., St. Louis, 

 Nov. 11, 1906. 

 Mr. John P. Brown: 



Thanks for sample copies. Unfortunately for 

 you, I am not in the rebuilding of forests business. 

 On the contrary, I destroy forests, cutting even 

 the undergrowth, to put land into cultivation. 

 Your paper gave me the first intimation that 

 something was being done in this country in the 

 way of forest rebuilding. I agree with you that 

 it will have to be done on larger scale, but only 

 national and state governments can do sufficient 

 good. See our European countries, especially 

 Switzerland and Germany, planting forests with 

 as much care as orchards are planted here. 



Truly, 



C. Grand Pierre. 



The eyes of lumbermen are gradually being 

 opened to see the necessity of some prompt and 

 effective planting, with better care of the forests, 

 if lumbering shall be continued in America. 



For the information of our correopondent, we 

 will state that through the influence of this Journal, 

 more than twenty million forest trees have been 

 planted, its influence being felt in many countries 

 of Europe, in Asia, in South Africa, in the Aus- 

 tralian Archipeligo, and in both North .'nd South 

 America. 



What the government refuses to do, the Inter- 

 national Society of Arboriculture is doing 

 effectively. 



The Evil of Turpentining 



Is fairly shown by the following item from an 

 Alabama paper, showing the effects of the recent 

 storm on the gulf coast; 



TIMBER AND LUMBER SITUATION 



Throughout this section practically all of the 

 timber which had been boxed for turpentine, 

 whether recently or years ago, is down. The 

 young, unboxed timber, while it has suffered 

 greatly, in places clumps of several trees going 

 down together, is by far the most of it standing. 

 The J/crald quotes Hon. T. S. Howell of Gulf- 

 port, a reputed authority on timber and lumber 

 matters, as saying; 



"The small trees stood except where they had 

 been boxed for turpentine, and these trees will 

 reach timber size in eight or ten years '' This 

 corresponds with the judgment of those who 

 opposed the turpentining of the young trees on 

 Fairhope's land. 



Mr. Howell also said that the fallen timber 

 would keep all of the big mills working night and 

 day for two years. Opinions of well posted men 

 differ greatly as to the effect of the wrecking of 

 the timber on the lumber market. Some think 

 that the hastening of so much timber to market 

 will bring down lumber prices, and others that 

 the increased demand for rebuilding purposes, 

 with the difficulty of getting extra men and teams 

 to increase the output, will hold prices up. 



One thing seems quite certain: Land with 

 standing timber of saw-log size, or which will 

 reach it in a few years, is much more valuable 

 than it was. — Alabaina Neivsfa;per. 



Save the Falling Leaves 



The Colorado Springs Gazette in a 

 lengthy article urges the citizens to rake 

 up the tallen leaves which the street 

 commission will have hauled away. 



In most towns ot Indiana they are 

 raked up and burned. 



In Florida and other Southern States 

 they are burned, together with all seed- 

 ling pine trees, each year. 



We advise Colorado Springs people 

 to rake them up and preserve them in a 

 compact heap, to be used as a fertilizer. 

 The soil of that city is of almost pure 

 sand, without any vegetable matter. 

 These leaves are invaluable in such 

 locations, as the humus which they form 

 is very essential for the successful growth 

 of grass on the lawns and various plants 

 in the gardens. 



Florida has lost many millions of 

 dollars by the suicidal policy of burning 

 the annual growths, pine leaves and with 

 them most of the seedling trees which 

 should be preserved to renew the forests, 

 as the greatest income the State can have 

 is from the timbers, since the largest 

 portion of the State, by far, is now 

 agricultural. 



Years ago the farmers of Indiana and 

 other neighboring States raked their corn 

 stalks into wind rows and burned them. 

 They don't do it now — they have learned 

 better — and the sooner all people learn 

 that forest leaves and the leaves from 

 shade trees is of great fertilizing value, 

 the better it will be of all. 



New Jersey's Fire Patrol 



The State of New Jersey has set the rest of the 

 country a good example in establishing a perma- 

 nent patrol to protect its forests from the ravages 

 of fire. It is not a region of immense forests, 

 like some of the western States in their original 

 condition, but it has had losses of millions from 

 forest fires. It is proposed to do everything 

 possible to check this public loss, by employing a 

 force to have supervision of the forests and see 

 that precautions about fires in camps and other 

 conditions are duly observed. It is considered 

 probable that the example will be followed in 

 other parts of the country. Many States which 

 suffer successive losses of millions from this 

 source have the same reason to avert the waste 

 that has led New Jersey to set this notable example. 



