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where forest reserves may be established and timber raised in 



commercial quantities. 



The studies of the possibilities of preventing waste in timber 

 logging and manufacturing, and the utilization of by-products, in- 

 volving the establishment of a laboratory for the use of lumber- 

 men and wood users. 



The protection of the forests by the enactment of adequate 

 laws looking to proper fire protection and the prevention of 

 grazing on forest lands, which would result in young trees being 

 killed or seeds destroyed. 



The study of streams and stream flow, and regulating them by 

 the planting of forest at their headwaters, thus preventing floods. 

 Study of water power possibilities is also to be included in this 

 provision. 



Cooperation with individuals in examining timber tracts, laying 

 out a plan of scientific management and aiding in the operation of 

 the property. This work will be begun early in 1913, when the 

 forestry work will have been fully organized. 



Changes in the personnel of the Foresters office of the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad during the late summer and fall include the 

 resignation of W. C. Shepard, Willard Springer, S. T. Pollock 

 and C. W. Tiffany, and the appointment of I. T. Worthley, 

 formerly connected with the Forestry Academy at Mont Alto, Pa. 



The sale of the timber above fourteen inches on 68,000 acres of 

 the Biltmore estate in North Carolina, for $12 per acre or $816,000 

 shows the possible profit to timberland investors who bought 

 timber when it was cheap. The Biltmore lands cost about $2.00 

 per acre, which gives a profit of $10 per acre after holding the 

 land twenty years. An element of forest management is intro- 

 duced, by the provision that the timber below fourteen inches 

 shall be left and the slash disposed of. It is reasonable that at 

 the end of the cutting period of twenty years another merchant- 

 able crop will be available. Even without any thought of forestry 

 or conservative cutting, timber of the character found on the 

 Pisgah forest would yield a handsome profit to any lumberman 

 at the price paid twenty years ago. Mr. Vanderbilt has in several 

 ways set a good example in the forest management of his Bilt- 

 more estate, and not the least will be his retention of the land and 

 the timber below a fixed diameter limit with the evident expec- 

 tation of reaping future profits. A little more care in logging 



