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have been consolidated, the total area embraced l)y the presi'iit reserve beinjj: a)>()ut 

 7,200,000 acres. 



Forestry for southern New England wood lots, K. T. Fishek {Forestry and 

 Irriy., 9 {I90o), Xu. d, pp. IJO, l.'I). — When taken as a whole southern New Eng- 

 land is said to be more or less covered with an immature growth of mixed hard 

 woods. Few stands are to be found where the trees are more than 60 years old, and 

 fully 75 per cent are of sprout origin. In many places comparatively worthless spe- 

 cies of trees have taken possession of the ground to the exclusion of more valuable 

 ones. In order to determine the proper management of these areas the Bureau of 

 Forestry of this Department has caused surveys to be made of 25 tracts in southern 

 New England, and a working scheme has been devised for each. The object in view 

 was to bring the grown-over wood lands into a productive condition. In suggesting 

 methods of treatment an essential consideration -was to make the forest have a per- 

 manent value to its owner. What is chiefly required for success in these regions is 

 a knowledge of the results to be desired and the ways of bringing them about. Ex- 

 tensive investigations have been carried on in this line which are to be published in 

 a future I)ulletin of the Bureau of Forestry of this Department. 



Forestry at an experiment station, W. Mulfokd {Forestr)j 'Jiuui., 1 {1903), No. 

 o, pp. Sl-SG). — A description is given of the forestry work which has been taken up 

 and developed at the Connecticut State kStation. This work was largely the result 

 of legislation which directed the appointment of a State forester and placed in the 

 control of the experiment station the purchase and planting of such lands in the 

 State as are suitable for the production of oak, pine, or chestnut lumber. Under the 

 call for offers of land at a price not exceeding |4 per acre, 24 tracts were offered 

 aggregating about 7,000 acres. These have been examined and negotiations for their 

 puivhase are in progress. 



The farm wood lot in Michigan, F. G. Miller ( /^ort.s7r// and Irri;/., 9 {1903), 

 iYw. 4, pp. lS7-ld'9). — iVttention is called to the rapid def(jrestation of the northern 

 parts of Michigan, and the value of the wood lot particularly in the southern portion 

 of the State is indicated. In the soutliern part of the State the wooded area is 

 rapidly decreasing, and witli the increased value of forest products the author 

 believes that under proper management the wood lot could be made a source of con- 

 siderable revenue. The preservation and proper management of the natural wood 

 lot as it now exists is said to be more important than artificial plantations, and for 

 the management of such areas the author recommends the system adopted in the 

 management of a successful wood lot in Pennsylvania. This consists of the removal 

 of all dead, diseased, or otherwise undesirable trees, thinning as the trees become 

 crowded, pruning and trimming to secure straight, clear stems, and the underplant- 

 ing of all vacant and thin spots Avitli some valuable tree, usually the white pine. 



Minnesota's system of preventing- forest fires, C. C. Andrews {Furedry and 

 Irriy., 9 {1903), No. 3, p>x>. 84, 85). — The IMinnesota system for jireventing forest fires 

 is now in operation over about 9,000,000 acres of forest lands, and the execution of 

 the law is placed in the hands of the town supervisors who are made fire wardens. 

 A chief fire warden is jirovided for by the law and it is made his duty to investigate the 

 various aspects of forestry and report annually to the proper State authorities. The 

 present appropriation for carrying out this \a,\\ is §5,000, and a scale of compensation 

 is given by which citizens who are called upon to help extinguish or control fires are 

 remunerated. A considerable part of the expense of fighting fires is charged against 

 the county, and the writer thinks that the law would be more effective if the State 

 should [lay two-thirds of the expense and the counties one-third. 



The most profitable trees for planting on the waste lands of farms in New 

 Jersey, F. R. Meier {Proc. New Jersey State Hort. Soc, 38 {1903), pp. 208-215, pi. 1). — 

 According to the author, there is considerable land in New Jersey which is not 

 adapted to general agriculture and it is thought possible that it may be made more 



