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Another Method of Cutting Christmas Trees 

 Editor, Journal of Forestry : 



I was very much interested in the article that appeared in the 

 Journal for March under tlie title ''Christmas Trees Cut Without De- 

 stroying the Parent Tree." It happens that there is a student in one of 

 my classes who has cut Christmas trees on a plantation for several 

 years past. The plantation is situated in Monroe County, Pa., and 

 consists of spruce and balsam fir. I am informed that the method of 

 cutting these trees is invariably to leave one branch of the lowest 

 whorl of branches so that the stand may continue to be productive 

 almost without interruption. During the past 20 years as many as 

 seven trees have been taken from some of the stumps. In fact, the rule 

 is never to cut the trees below the lowest whorl unless a thinning is 

 necessary. 



Lawrence W. Smith, 

 Department of F'orestuy, Instructor in Forestry. 



State College, Pa. 



Revenue From Indian Forests 



The Inspector General of Forests has furnished the following official 

 statement of revenues, never before available to American foresters, 

 for the period 1909 to 1918 : (Three rupees equal one dollar.) 



1909-10 1910-11 1911-12 1912-1.3 1913-14 



G.-oss revenue $8,675,2fi.5 $9,1.35,151 $9,6S5,7S6 $10,403,266 $11,100,515 



Expenditure 4,976,885 5,081,-341 5,648,8.55 5.709,270 5,847,818 



Net revenue 3,701,71.3 4,053,810 4,0.36.9.31 5,000,666 5,252,863 



Total area in square miles 224..5.51 243,478 242,960 2.38,923 245,612 



Area under forest W. plans 49,421 50,183 50,892 51,722 53,926 



1914-15 1915-16 1916-17 1917-18 1918-19 



Gross revenue $9,903,261 $10,372,122 $12,.^53,977 $13,&56,419 $15,606 077 



Expenditure (i,068,817 6,197,.5.38 6,247,961 7.0.52,354 9,625 168 



Net revenue 3,8:^,445 4,174,.5S7 6.106,008 6,604 064 5 980*908 



Total area in square miles 249,867 249,000 246,579 251 512 '25l'468 



Area under forest W. plans 55,629 57,444 58,588 60J24 60|670 



The total acreage for 1918-19 is about 161,000,000 acres. 



T. S. W., Jr. 



David T. Mason, professor of forestry at the University of California 

 and formerly connected with the timber section of the Bureau of 

 Internal Revenue and the Forest Sendee, has opened an office as a 

 forest engineer in Portland, Oregon. 



