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Pennsylvania. The report provides a definite planting plan for a 

 small typical area and includes a forest jDolicy for the whole, which 

 calls for the employment of a forester, whose duty shall be to 

 organize a system of effective fire patrol, establish and maintain 

 a forest nursery, superintend forest planting on waste lands and 

 act as technical adviser to the superintendent of the timber tracts 

 owned by this company. 



Forest fires are the chief obstacle in forming successful forest 

 plantations on the 9,000 acres where planting is now contemplated, 

 and it seems reasonably certain that the forester can greatly im- 

 prove the local sentiment regarding fires and be able to reforest the 

 entire area. 



Some of the species to be used are Scotch pine, European larch, 

 chestnut and red oak. 



Recent experiments at Escanaba, Mich., on the treatment of 

 Arborvitae telephone poles, by co-operation between the Forest 

 Service and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 

 have brought to light the fact that the butts of Arborvitae poles 

 can be treated in an open tank in a manner sufficient to add many 

 years to the life of the pole. An average penetration of three- 

 quarters of an inch, with a maximum of over an inch, has been se- 

 cured. This series of experiments is to supplement experiments 

 carried on in the same manner by the Forest Service last year on 

 chestnut and white cedar poles. The excellent results obtained 

 have been the means of the American Telephone and Telegraph 

 Company sending out a circular letter requesting that all of its 

 poles for heavy line construction be treated in this manner. 



During the past few months the Forest Service has been con- 

 ducting a series of experiments in co-operation with the Phila- 

 delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company to ascertain the best 

 method of handling and treating mine props. These are the first 

 experiments which have been undertaken by the Forest Service in 

 mine prop work. Timbers used as mine props decay very rapidly, 

 the conditions in mines being extremely favorable to the growth 

 of wood-decaying fungi. During a recent trip through the mines 

 where the experimental timbers are located, it was found that 

 after four months' trial results were already obtainable. While 



