344 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



For the year euded November 15, 1909 a total of 11,759 acres of woodland 

 throughout the State was burned over, destroying standing timber valued at 

 $10,263,000, as well as cordwood and logs valued at $11,862,000. The total out- 

 put of the forest and woodland of the State for 190S was 1,091,164,706 ft. b. m. 



The Highlands of the Hudson Forest Reservation, F. F. Moon {Separate 

 pom. N. y. State Forest, Fish and Game Com. Ann. Rpt., 15 {1909), pp. 103-121, 

 2}ls. 12, map 1). — This report contains the text of the law establishing the above 

 reservation, together with a description of the region included relative to gen- 

 eral conditions, forest types, ownership, past management, a list of species 

 native to the reservation, suggestions for woodland management, and methods 

 of i-egeneration. 



Reforesting' operations, C. R. Pettis (Separate fi'om N. Y. State Forest, Fish 

 and Game Com. Ann. Rpt., 15 (1909), pp. 122-167, pis. 11, map 1). — A report for 

 the year relative to the operation of the state forest nurseries, the reforestation 

 of state land, assistance rendered private land owners, distribution of trees, and 

 experimental work under way. 



In order to supply the demand for planting-stock for reforesting at a reason- 

 able price, large quantities of white pine plants were imported from Germany. 

 As a result it was found that the European blister rust ( Pcridermium strobi) 

 had been introduced into the Lake Clear nursery. Measures have been taken 

 for its prompt eradication there and elsewhere where the plants were dis- 

 tributed. 



Some data are given on the trial of the seed spot method of artificial reforest- 

 ing. In this method the seed is sown in little spots about 1 ft. in diameter 

 regularly over the field that is to be refoi-ested. Out of 2,231 seed spots made 

 in 1900 and 1907 of various species an average of 35 per cent now have trees. 

 The cost of this method is about $10 per acre. 



The Louisiana forestry law (Lumber Tntde Jour., 58 (1910), No. 1, pp. 17, 

 18). — The text is given of the Louisijuia forestry law as passed during 1910. 



A study of forest conditions of southwestern Mississippi, J. S. Holmes 

 and J. H. Foster (Miss. Geol. Survey But. 5, pp. 56, map 1). — This is a report of 

 the cooperative study of the Forest Service of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture and the State Geological Survey relative to forest conditions in the 

 southwestern counties of the State. It includes a description of the several 

 types of forest, a summary of the forest and economic conditions of each of the 

 counties covered, and a review of the timber industries in the region. Plans 

 for the conservative management of private and public forest lands are outlined, 

 and recommendations are made for a definite forest policy for Mississippi. A 

 map of the region studied accompanies the rei)ort. 



The cost of forest mapping and estimating in Montana, K. W. Woodward 

 (Forestry Quart., 8 (1910), No. 2, pp. I'i7-157, pt. /).— A detailed examination 

 of the cost of mapping and valuing the holdings of the Northern Pacific Rail- 

 road Company within the National Forests of Montana is reported. The total 

 cost per acre averaged 2^ cts. 



Yield tables of western forests, E. I. Terry (Forestry Q\iart., 8 (1910), No. 

 2, pp. 17-'i-177). — In view of the lack of published yield tables, tables based upon 

 admittedly scanty data are presented for western yellow pine, western larch 

 and Douglas fir. The tables refer to northern Rocky Mountain conditions. 



The effect of grazing on forest conditions in the Caribou National Forest, 

 E. H. HODSON (Forestry Quart., 8 (1910), No. 2, pp. 158-168).— The author dis- 

 cusses the relation between the grazing industry and the silvicultural interests 

 of a forest and points out the limitations of an intense form of grazing in the 

 average forest such as the above. 



