INDEX. 



PACE 



Report of Forest Commi£sion,;r 5 



Law Creating Maine Forestry District 8 



List of Fire Wardens 15 



Revised Fire Law for Towns 27 



Act Prohibiting use of Fire Arms in Dry Times 29 



Forest Fires of 1909 30 



Fi. es of 1909 on Incorporated Towns 32 



Sunmiary of Fires on Incorporated Towns in 1909 35 



Fires of 1909 on Unincorporated Townships 36 



Summary of 1909 Fires on Unincorporated Townships 2t7 



Forest Fires of 1910 38 



Fires of 1910 en Unincorporated Townships 39 



Fires of 1910 on Incorporated Towns 40 



Summary of 1910 Fires 41 



Patrol and Lookout Systems 42 



Tools for Fighting Fire 45 



Lookout Stations 45 



Telephone Lines 46 



Reports from Chief Wardens 47 



Ccopera' ion With New Hampshire 55 



Financial Stateir.ent 56 



Forestry Department at University of Maine 58 



The Care of the Farm Woodlot 63 



Bsnj. C. Jordan Fund 68 



Forest Commissioner's Conclusion 70 



Maine's White Birch 72 



The Spool Indu try -j^ 



Shoe Peg and Shank Industry 75 



Principal Markets for White Bircli "jj 



Diitribu ion of Paper Birch 78 



Stand per ace of Paper Birch 84 



The Paper Birch Supplv 85 



Botanical and Si'vical Characteristics 86 



Methods of LuTibering 95 



Volume and Yield Tables 103 



