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that effective protection could be given. The essential parts of such a 
system are fire prevention and fire control. 
The necessary steps in the direction of fire prevention would be a 
campaign of education emphasizing the need of fire protection, and the 
posting of notices explaining the fire danger and the penalties for starting 
fires. Actual fire control will require (1) a centrally located station where 
a lookout may be established. At times during the fire season a lookout 
man might not be able to locate fires because the smoke in the hills makes 
seeing over five miles very difficult, and his main work would be telephon- 
ing over the district to find out about the presence of fires. (2) A division 
of the area into districts, with telephone connections from the lookout 
station, and a responsible person in each district closely in touch with 
woodland owners who will assist in assembling and organizing men for 
fire-fighting. 
This system should work out about as follows: If any one notices a 
fire he telephones its location and probable size to the lookout man, who, 
in turn, calls up the district leader and gives him the details so far as he 
has learned them. The district leader summons local help and puts out 
the fire, which would usually not be difficult if fires are caught when they 
start, and the men properly equipped with tools. The lookout man would 
receive a monthly wage during the fire seasons of spring and fall, giving 
his entire time to the work. The district leader and the local fire fighters 
would be paid for the number of hours actually spent in fire-fighting. Such 
fires can be whipped out with brooms, burlap bags dipped in water, or 
green brush, and the most important point is to get to the fire early with 
from ten to twelve men. The keeping of important ridge trails and roads 
scraped bare might also be helpful wherever such roads and trails would 
serve as a means of stopping fires or as a vantage point for fighting them 
as they came up to the top of the ridge. So far as we have seen, these 
roads are well located for fire lines, and it would be neither a difficult nor 
an expensive matter to keep them open. 
Tue So-caALLED FArmM Woop-Lots 
The scattered farm wood-lots are being fairly well managed on 
the whole, many of them being held by the older citizens who see the ad- 
vantage of conserving them and who are deriving some profit from the sale 
of timber at more or less regular intervals. Timber alone on forty acres 
of such land sells for $1,000, or $25 per acre, with no expense to the 
owner of handling it, aside from fire protection. Those farmers who do 
not appreciate the advantage to themselves or to others of taking care 
of their timber can be reached through the county farm advisers. 
