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In connection with this expenditure it is interesting- to note 

 the amount and value of the timber destroyed in 191 1, 545,000,000 

 board feet, vakied at $680,000,000; and namely 84,622,000 board 

 feet, valued at $79,684. 



Attention to other problems besides fire protection is urged, 

 especially taxation and methods of securing reproduction. 



The report closes with a brief statement of facts regarding 

 Oregon's forests. 



R. C. H. 



Report of the Maryland State Board of Forestry for igio and 

 ipii. Baltimore, Md. 191 2. Pp. 42. Illustrated. 



The activities of the Maryland State Board of Forestry are 

 shown by this report to cover a number of different lines. They 

 are carrying on educational work, making forest investigations, 

 examining private woodlands, protecting the forests from fire, 

 and managing small forest reserves. 



Three courses of lectures on forestry are given at the State 

 Agricultural College, information is furnished at Farmers' In- 

 stitutes, and many addresses are delivered before various organ- 

 izations. Publications and public exhibits assist in the educational 

 work. 



Forest surveys have now been completed for 22 out of the 23 

 counties in the State. Planting experiments with Loblolly Pine 

 indicate that wild stock of this species can be successfully and 

 cheaply used and that the pine can be introduced into certain 

 sandy lands where not now indigenous. 



An investigation to determine the extent of, and methods for 

 controlling the Chestnut bark disease was made in 191 1. The 

 conclusion reached was that the northern and eastern sections 

 were the worst affected and elsewhere either less seriously or 

 not at all ; and that by adopting vigorous quarantine measures 

 outside of the area of general infection much could be done to 

 check the spread of the disease. The value of the Chestnut in 

 the area now infected is put at $500,000, In order that the 

 Chestnut, if killed, may not be a total loss, efforts are being 

 made to find uses for the dead wood. 



Brush burning and railroad engines were the chief causes of 



