FOREST COMMISSIONERS REPORT. 2'J 



Requests have been received from private owners asking for 

 assistance in the care of their wooded areas. A personal exam- 

 ination has been made of tracts having an aggregate area of a 

 Httle more than one thousand acres, — plans for the management 

 of the several tracts being discussed on the ground with the 

 owner. The work of cooperation is to be continued in the 

 spring, and it is planned at that time to plant about twenty-five 

 acres altogether. About eighteen acres will be planted to white 

 pine which will require 20,000 seedlings. The remainder will 

 be planted with red oak acorns. 



New instruments and tools for the practical work have been 

 purchased and the equipment of the department now consists of 

 tree calipers, log scales, instruments for measuring the height 

 of standing trees, steel tapes, compasses, chains, staff heads, 

 planimeters, Pressler's increment borers, hand lenses, axes, saws 

 and planting tools. 



Respectfully submitted, 



GORDON E. TOWER. 



