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where the Hnes are made, and the results have been very beneficial 

 to both the State and the railroads. 



Other items of interest from New Jersey are that forest plant- 

 ings in the State will this spring aggregate not less than 300,000 

 trees, most of them being made on private property. The Forest 

 Commission is also authorized to take up actively the extension of 

 shade-tree work, and it will do this by furnishing an assistant 

 forester to any community which has an organized shade-tree 

 commission. A campaign for the improvement of woodlots is 

 also planned. This will be carried out by having a man drive 

 from farm to farm, giving practical demonstrations to the owners 

 of the property. As in other States, however, fire protection is 

 deemed the first essential, and if fires can be suppressed, the 

 natural forests will yield results very quickly and at low cost. 



The department of forestry of the New York State Forest, 

 Fish and Game Commission has sold to private parties during the 

 past spring 1,774,000 trees, the total number requested on orders 

 amounting to over two million. White pine transplants were in 

 greatest demand, with white pine seedlings second, while Norway 

 spruce transplants and Scotch pine transplants occupied third and 

 fourth places, respectively. The Salamanca nursery has been 

 nearly doubled in size, and a nursery of five acres has been estab- 

 lished at Saratoga, making a total of six nurseries which are 

 being operated by the State. In connection with the nursery and 

 planting work, the white pine blister rust has been found on three 

 importations, one of them from France and the other two from 

 the well-known Heins nurseries, near Hamburg. The prompt 

 discovery of this disease will prevent its spread from the importa- 

 tions this year. The 700,000 two-year-old white pine seedlings 

 which were imported from the Heins nursery in 1908 and trans- 

 planted to the Salamanca nursery have from, time to time shown 

 the existence of the rust, and the remaining 500,000 seedlings 

 were this spring condemned by the State Department of Agri- 

 culture and burned. In the matter of fire protection, five new 

 fire stations have been added, making a total of 27, in the Adiron- 

 dacks and Catskills. The paid force during the coming summer 

 will consist of 5 Superintendents of Fires, about 65 fire patrol- 

 men and 27 observers on mountain stations. 



