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by the State in Roscommon County, by the Government in Iosco 

 County, and by private individuals at Indian Lake and Tawas Beach 

 near East Tawas is very slow, the trees taking on a scraggly, bushy 

 form, and are also frequently winter-killed. The trees are also affected 

 by the Peridermium, which is native on jack pine (Pinits hanksianna) , 

 and the State Forester found it necessary to dig up all the yellow pine 

 which had been planted, because of this injury. A plantation made 

 upon the Schmidt farm near Oscoda has, however, been very successful. 

 These trees were planted as 2-1 stock in 19 13 and are now growing 

 very thriftily. The soil of this particular site is a light sand mixed 

 with varying proportions of fine gravel, which is damp for the ma- 

 jority of the time except for the topmost soil. 



Pennsylvani.\ State Forest Statistics 



The following statistics are taken from Forest Leaves, February, 

 1919, p. 16: 



Total area, 1,029,023 acres. 



Total cost of land, $2,342,918.62. 



Average cost per acre, %2.2y. 



Number divisions known as State Forests, 53. 



Amount expended to January i, 1918, other than for lands, $5,339,946.29. 



Number of foresters in service before the war, 68. 



Number of rangers in service before the war, 93. 



Number of foresters now in service, 30. 



Number of rangers now in service, 89. 



Number of foresters now on State Forests, 26. 



Number of district foresters, 3; two of them also have forests. 



Total receipts from State Forests to January i, 1918, $147,713.82, of which 

 three-fifths is for timber sales. 



Receipts for 1916, $21,459.97; for 1917, $21,569.69; to November 15, 1918, $19,- 

 382.02. 



Number leased camps, 417. 



Number temporary camps, 384 ; persons using same, 1,989. 



Buildings erected: steel towers on State Forests, 9; wood towers, 39; tree 

 towers, 92. 



Miles of telephone lines built or owned by Department, 292. 



Miles of roads built, brushed, or repaired by Department, 3,500. 



Miles of boundary lines surveyed and brushed, over 2,000. 



Acres surveyed topographically and mapped out, about 300,000. 



Trees planted on State Forests, 31,534,556. 



Acres reforested, 19,425. 



Acres of nurseries, 25. 



Seedlings available for 1919 planting, about 9,500,000. 



Seedlings given to private planters, about 5,000,000. 



