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(e) Laws preventing mice and insect plagues, and laws pro- 

 tecting useful animals. Stocklaw. 



3. With reference to forest fires in particular: 



(f) Laws relative to fire observatories and fire telephones. 



(g) Laws enforcing help, in case of forest fires, from all able- 

 bodied males, and laws requiring an observer of forest fires 

 to at once notify the nearest fire \x-arden. 



(h) Lire-warden laws. Wardens should not be elected ; should 

 be well-paid by state and not by counties; should be efficiently 

 controlled; should have small beats; and should prevent rather 

 than extinguish fires. 



(i) Laws relative to the burning of fields and woods by owners. 

 Owners intending to burn their fallow or their slashings, etc., 

 should give notice to adjoining land owners; should fire only 

 in calm weather during certain months of the year, and should 

 pay damages in case of escape of fires. 



(j) Laws regulating camp fires, herder's fires, hunter's fires, 

 duties of guides and guide-licenses. 



(k) Laws regulating the use of torch lights, tobacco pipes, 

 matches, etc., and distance of cabins from woods. 



(I) Laws relative to fire lanes along railroads (in coniferous 

 woods minimum 70 feet; in broadleaf woods 50 feet); relative 

 to spark arresters, kind of fuel used, and responsibility of rail- 

 roads for conflagrations. 



