terns placed around the nursery in large tin trays, 

 each containing kerosene to the depth of about an 

 inch. The majority of the beetles will fly into this 

 decoy and be captured before they have oppor- 

 tunity to deposit eggs. Another method of ridding 

 tree roots of the grub has been discovered by wet- 

 ting the ground. They either die or abandon a 

 damp soil. Notable work has been done anent the 

 destruction of fungus growths and insects. Fungus 

 is destroyed by sterilizing the soil and sprinkJi 

 the" trees with dry powder. Rodents and insects 

 are disposed of by spreading poison mixed with 

 grain aud the use of poisoned emulsions. 



Required Enthusiastic Devotion. 



It has required enthusiastic devotion to bring our 

 nurseries and general forestry management to its 

 present high efficiency. The state of New York 

 leads all others in this country in its tree -propa- 

 gation and planting operations. Public demand 

 had to be created, however, before this result could 

 be brought about. Our tree gardens have gradual- 

 ly expanded under the efficient supervision of 

 Forester C. R. Pettis since 1901, when there was 

 not one foot of ground devoted to the purpose. We 

 now have about thirty acres teeming with young 

 trees, but it is only a beginning. Our necessities 

 require two hundred acres. The demand from 

 private owners can only be fractionally satisfied. 

 Applications were received this year for five mil- 

 lion trees.. In addition to this growing demand 

 comes the need for reforestation of waste land 

 owned by the state, which this year must be almost 

 entirely neglected in deference to private planting. 

 This policy encourages tree growing and engen- 

 ders a favorable public sentiment on all forestry 

 matters by placing a tangible example within the 

 observation of the individual citizen. Certain 

 schools are setting out trees in large numbers. 



On Arbor Day, in the city of Elmira N Y the 

 children of the public schools planted 5 000 trees 

 The boys of Glens Falls, N. Y., have formed a Con- 

 servation League and planted two thousand trees 

 on Arbor Day. This is the first movement of the 

 kind and is a matter of practical instruction to 

 those who are to be the protectors of our forests 

 in the future. Some of the large lumber concerns 

 have already established nurseries, from which 

 they expect to replenish and perpetuate the yield 

 of their cut-over timberlands. Many town and city 

 municipalities are reforesting watersheds from 

 which their water supply is obtained. One of the 

 largest spring water concerns has also planted 

 trees to maintain the regularity and quality of 

 their supply. This movement has taken hold of 

 the best intelligence of our Commonwealth. Of 

 course those who are directly interested in a busi- 

 ness way have been the first to respond to the 

 sense of the forestry situation in this state. 



Each state should carry on planting operations 

 as rapidly as the forest is being devastated. Rep- 

 aration ought to be made for constant destruction. 

 If reforestation is not conducted on this basis we 

 must continue steadily towards total depletion. Be- 

 sides the current annual consumption of trees 

 there is in this state in the aggregate a vast tract 

 of land bereft of its forest growth in past years 

 which is ever manifesting itself by floods in spring 

 and dry creeks and river beds in summer, low 

 water levels in our lakes, scarcity of fish and 

 game, high prices for lumber, ruined recreative 

 and health resorts. Therefore, comprehensive 

 planting, in addition to that done to make up for 

 current denudation, should offset these old inroads 

 upon our forest preserve, and it would seem that 

 the intelligence of our people must recognize their 

 forestal obligations defined by the moral principle 

 that what the future demands the present must 

 concede. 



There is an immense amount of work about a tree nursery. 



