ii2 Forestry Quarterly. 



Fire Loss — 



Standing timber, $695,282 $497,046 



Pulpwood and logs, I 53»39 I !36,920 



Buildings, 34,443 10,020 



$883,116 $643,986 



Cost of fighting fires, $153,000 138,000 



The forest product of the State of New York forms still quite 

 a respectable amount, being for the year 1907 reported by the 

 Forest, Fish and Game Commission as representing 1,266,754,365 

 feet B. M. In this total cut, spruce represents about one-third, 

 hemlock and pine together one fourth, maple somewhat over one- 

 tenth. 



The other hardwoods range in relative contributions as follows : 

 beech, birch, oak, basswood, chestnut, poplar, elm, ash, hickory 

 and cherry. 



The following legislation, proposed in a resolution passed by 

 the Wisconsin Timberland Owners' Association notes a distinct 

 advance in the attitude of lumbermen towards the need of more 

 effective protection against fire : 



Section i. Any person who shall cut, or cause to be cut, any 

 logs, bolts, pulp wood, ties, poles, posts, or other forest products, 

 in any of the counties designated in section 4 of this act, shall 

 pile the tops and refuse as the cutting proceeds, and shall, within 

 one year from such cutting and felling, burn all such piles of 

 refuse and tops, and in such burning all reasonable care shall 

 be taken not to damage standing timber or adjoining property. 

 The term "burning" shall be construed to mean the destruction 

 by fire of so much of such slashings as would become easily com- 

 bustible material and dangerous in event they were not so de- 

 stroyed, but no burning shall be done during dangerously dry 

 weather. 



Sec 2 Any person who violates any of the provisions in re- 

 gard to the burning of slashings, refuse, etc., shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor and shall, on conviction therefore, be punished by 

 a fine of not less than fifty (50) cents, nor more than two dollars 



