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GOV. SULZER BELIEVES IN TREE 

 PLANTING. 



'If I had my %ay I'd make every man 

 in the State of New York plant a tree 

 every month, ' ' said Gov. Sulzer at a hear- 

 ing on bills appropriating $310,000 for 

 the New York State College of Forestry 

 at Syracuse University. 



'I have always planted trees,' said the 

 Governor. 'When I was a boy back on 

 the farm, every rainy day, when there was 

 nothing else to do, was spent in the woods. 

 My father taught me to dig up little trees 

 and to plant them along the road. 



'When people pass that farm nowadays 

 they exclaim at the beauty of the elms 

 and the maples. My father was forty 

 years ahead of his time on forestry. 

 That was practical forestry and that is 

 what I want the people of New York to 

 learn and practice. ' — Paper, Inc. 



TIMBER CRUISES 

 FORESTRY SURVEYS 



J- Forcotry Dept. 



Mintreal Engineering Company, Limited 



Consulting^ & Operating Engineers 



I McGILL STREET, MONTREAL 

 R. O. Sweezay, General Manager 



HARDY NORTHERN 



FOREST TREES 

 and shrubs at forest 

 prices. 



Native and foreign tree seeds. 



Edye-de- Hurst & Son, 

 Dennyhurst, via Dryden, Ont. 



SWPPKRS TO H. M. OOViSRNMKNT, KTC 



Corresp<mdanee Franfaise. 



PLACING VALUATION ON YOUNG 

 TREES. 



(Southern Lumberman, Nashville, Tenn.) 



For the first time the courts of the 

 country have placed a valuation upon 

 young trees on land that has been refor- 

 ested. The case was not an important one 

 and there was but little money involved. 

 But it is a precedent. 



The United States Government brought 

 suit against the Missouri & Northwestern 

 Railroad for damages for timber destroy- 

 ed by fires originating from sparks from 

 a locomotive. A United States District 

 Court allowed a damage of $12 an acre. 

 Only ninety-two acres were destroyed. 



This is the first time that a court 

 in the United States has decided 

 that trees of such immature growth 

 as thoi-e involved in this case have 

 a value which may be determined and for 

 the destruction of which damages may be 

 estimated and allowed. The basis of the 

 valuation of the reproduction was the fig- 

 ures derived from the actual planting op- 

 erations carried on ^by the Forest Service 

 in the Black Hills, South Dakota, during 

 the past season, in which 1,500 acres were 

 reforested by seeding. 



In line with this decision is the recent 

 settlement by compromise of a case 

 against the Burlington Railroad Company 

 for damages caused by fires in the Galena 

 district of the Black Hills. By this set- 

 tlement the United States receives the 

 full amount of the estimated damages, 

 part of which was for injury to 300 acres 

 of reproduction valued at $6.66 per acre. 



THE WASTE OF WOOD. 



We have destroyed the forests that we 

 might build millions of wooden houFes of a 

 most flimsy sort, which every now and again 

 give us a Chicago fire or a San Francisco 

 holocaust. We burn a greater quantity of 

 the product of man's labor in America 

 every year than was destroyed when Nero 

 celebrated the destruction of the capital of 

 the world. And we, too, fiddle and dance 

 through it all. — Toronto Globe. 



