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wood to sell may deal. In numerous instances owners of chest- 

 nut timber have. been helped to find buyers for a material that 

 they themselves knew not how to dispose of. The Commission 

 .invites correspondence on this subject. Manifestly, its only 

 object. is to facilitate the utilization of forest products. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



In this direction the Commission has been more active this 

 year than ever before. Grateful acknowledgment is made to 

 the Commissioner of Public Instruction and his staff for their 

 hearty co-operation in the effort to bring .forestry and its aims 

 before the public school pupils. Besides the Annual Report, of 

 which 2,500 copies were distributed-, the following have been 

 issued: 



1. Cutting Trees on Land Not One's Own is Unlawful. Edition 2,500. 



A circular, distributed through the Granges, to answer many complaints of 

 vandalism and show that no forest or tree owner need suffer if he will take 

 the trouble to invoke the law. See p. 21. 



2. Trees and Forests. 15 pp. with illustrations. Published by the Department 

 of Public Instruction as Elementary Agriculture Leaflet No. 9. It is intended 

 chiefly to show teachers how to connect forestry with geography, history, arith- 

 metic, etc. 



3. Arbor Day. 31 pp. A reprint, published by the Department of Public In- 

 struction, of the series of papers first printed in 1912. Its aim is to fit arbor day 

 exercises to New Jersey conditions- 



4. Forest Planting in New Jersey. 31 pp. with illustrations. Edition 3,000. 

 Gives full instructions for planting forest trees and some figures of cost and 

 yield. 



5. Forest Fire Manual. 44 pp. Edition 2,500. A handbook for firewardens 

 and others who have to do with the control of forest fires. 



6. List of Firewardens. 15 pp. Edition i.ooo. A directory of all connected 

 with the State Forest Fire Service. 



7. The Automobile. Edition 50,000. A card of warning and advice to auto- 

 mobile drivers about forest fires. Distributed in co-operation with the State Motor 

 Vehicle Department and the Associated Automobile clubs. 



8. New Jersey's Forest Fire Law. Edition 5,000. A card showing what may 

 and what may not be done with fire- Distributed through boy scouts, by mail, etc. 



9. Did You Ever Stop to Think? Edition 50,000. A leaflet to emphasize the 

 evil in forest fires and the dependence of all forestry upon forest fire control. 

 Distributed chiefly through the rural schools. 



10. Forest Fires. Edition 1,000. A card 9x11 inches printed in black on red 

 and posted in rural railroad stations and other prominent places. 



11. Forest Fire Puzzle Cup. Edition 100,000. A paper drinking .cup (devised 

 by the Western Forestry and Conservation Association) intended to emphasize 



