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now established or definitely planned for the immediate future. The 

 owners have been won over to a realization of the importance and 

 practicability of forestry methods and are pledged to its practice. 



The progress indicated in this survey is encouraging when it is 

 realized that the work was begun only 13 years ago. Much, however, 

 is yet to be done. New Jersey has nearly 2,000,000 acres of woodland, 

 most of it in a degraded condition because of repeated forest fires, 

 wasteful logging, neglect of owners, and abuse by the public. As 

 determined by soil surveys and careful studies nearly three-quarters of 

 this area is unfit for any profitable use other than growing timber. 

 The State's problem therefore is to make this great area a group of 

 productive, profitable forests ; the means clearly are preventing and 

 controlling forest fires, and applying practical forestry management. 

 These established, the value of New Jersey's forests can be rapidly 

 increased from the present total of 6 million dollars to over 200 million 

 dollars. Instead of furnishing less than one-twentieth of the lumber 

 used within the State as at present, New Jersey's woodlands are 

 capable of supplying a large part of the ordinary lumber and wood 

 products required by her people. The benefits to land owners, pro- 

 ducers and consumers are self-evident. 



The Syracuse Cruising Chain 



A new adaptation of the slope jchain, operated in conjunction with 

 Abney hand level for the obtaining of horizontal and vertical control 

 on cruise lines in timber surveys, is in use at the New York State 

 College of Forestry, under the name of the Syracuse Cruising Chain. 

 According to the idea of its designer, Professor H. C. Belyea, of the 

 Department of Forest Engineering at Syracuse, the chain is one which 

 can be used with any one of the standard slope measuring instruments, 

 and is not restricted to the use of only one elaborately co-adjusted 

 instrument. Primarily it is adapted to the standard Abney clinometer, 

 the utility, accuracy, and general use of that instrument being 

 recognized. 



The chain used for the purpose is a standard band chain, two chains 

 in length, graduated and sub-graduated as such. At the end of the 

 band chain there is a 30-foot trailer, so graduated that the inclined 

 distance on any slope which corresponds to two chains on the horizontal 

 may be set off directly on the chain in accordance to the angle of slope 



