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law. This bill, introduced by Mr. Everett, is the result of joint effort 

 by the Empire State Forest Products Association and the Conservation 

 Commission. It provides that — 



"The commission may agree with the owner of non-agricultural land, of the area 

 of not less than fifty acres, which is in need of reforestation, to provide for the 

 reforesting of such land under such safeguards as the commission deems neces- 

 sary to insure the establishment and proper protection of such a plantation, and 

 may furnish trees from any of the nurseries operated by such commission, with- 

 out charge at the nursery, providing the owner of the land will agree that the 

 land shall be held for continuous forest production and that no trees so planted 

 shall be cut, except in accordance with the regulations of the commission. Such 

 agreement shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county where 

 the land is situated, and the provisions thereof shall be deemed to be and be cove- 

 nants running with the land." 



The sum of $25,000 is appropriated as a starter, but it is realized that 

 many times this amount may be needed in the future ; for there are 

 probably 276,000 acres of privately owned, non-agricultural land in the 

 Adirondacks alone in need of planting. 



xA.s an incentive to private forest management, this measure, coupled 

 with the pending forest tax bills providing for deferred taxation until 

 the crop is cut, marks a wise policy of encouraging private forest own- 

 ers to practice forestry by making it economically attractive. 



A. B. Recknagel. 



Annual Meeting of the National Wholsale Lumber Dealers* 



Association 



At the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, in Philadelphia. March 19 and 20. J. 

 Randall Williams, Jr., chairman of the Forestry Committee, made a 

 report, the summary of which was as follows : 



"Your Committee on Forestry: First, calls your attention to the wonderful 

 work done by our American woodsmen and lumbermen toward winning the great 

 world war. Second, heartily endorses the plan of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation to reforest the war-devastated countries abroad, and to plant memorial 

 trees as a living tribute to those who have died for us. Third, we urge greater 

 appropriations by the States for forest fire protection. Fourth, we recommend 

 the Federal assistance in control of cut-over lands. Fifth, we recommend pri- 

 vate ownership of standing timber." 



The following resolution on forestry was adopted by the same con- 

 vention and is of particular interest in view of the movement inaugu- 

 rated by the Forest Service to secure the adoption of a permanent tim- 

 berland policy for the United States : 



