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except Delaware, employ extension workers and are furnishing State 

 aid of this nature in cooperation with the Federal Government under 

 provisions of the Clarke-McNary law. Pennsylvania led in 1931 

 with an expenditure of $8,657 and New York ranked second with 

 $5,020. New York, in addition to the extension forester's activities, 

 furnished extension service to private owners through aid of members 

 of Cornell, Syracuse, and St. Lawrence Universities. The limited 

 amount of forestry-extension work needed in Delaware does not war- 

 rant the employment of a man solely for this duty, but incidental 

 work in extension is performed. 



In New Jersey the extension forester aids owners of small timber 

 tracts by making general surveys of the properties, marking small 

 sample areas for selective cutting, and furnishing information in 

 marketing forest products. For projects that require only a few 

 days of field work the aid is furnished free to owners. For partial 

 estimates on larger tracts the State charges owners for the forester's 

 field expenses. 



In Pennsylvania the Department of Forests and Waters gives free 

 advice to private owners, and particularly to water and mining com- 

 panies, on forest management, but the extension work among farmers 

 is not stressed, owing probably to the strong farm-forestry extension 

 activities of the Pennsylvania State College of Forestry. 



Maryland tenders forestry-extension service to private owners 

 through the aid of both the extension forester and members of the 

 State Department of Forestry. Information is given on timber 

 estimating, sample marking, preparation of sale contracts, and pro- 

 spective buyers. The foresters charge the owners $3 per day plus 

 expenses up to 3 days' service, and thereafter at rate of $8 per day. 

 In 1929 examinations were made and plans formulated for 50 forest 

 properties comprising 13,500 acres of woodland located in 18 different 

 counties. 



Blister-rust control. During the fiscal year 1932 New Jersey, New 

 York, and Pennsylvania spent $94,707 of State money for white pine 

 blister-rust control. This amount, while it comprises only 6.8 per- 

 cent of the total amount of State forestry aid in the Middle Atlantic 

 group, was 38.5 percent of all State aid in the Nation for its specific 

 purpose. New York contributed most of the funds, putting up 

 $75,000. Delaware does not contain white pine, and the limited 

 areas of such species in Maryland do not apparently necessitate con- 

 trol work. 



Gipsy-moth control. State aid for gipsy-moth control was made 

 available by New Jersey and New York during the calendar year 

 1931 in the amount of $182,164. This amount comprises 13 percent 

 of the State aid of all forms rendered by all five States to private 

 owners. 



Research. In these States some technical employees of the for- 

 estry organizations devote a portion of their time to research, but 

 only in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania is this activity 

 provided for in definite form. Expenditures for research by all three 

 States during the fiscal year 1932 are estimated at $55,120, or 4 per- 

 cent of all State forestry-aid expenditures in the entire group. In 

 Pennsylvania the Department of Forests and Waters maintains a 

 Forest Research Institute at Mont Alto and allots annually ap- 

 proximately $21,120 for research activities. In New Jersey consid- 



