No. 4.] REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 



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II. For Examinations of Woodlands — Concluded. 



Owner of Woodland. 



Area 



of Woodland 



(Acres). 



Expense. 



Fiske & Field, 



A. S. Hayes, .... 



Mrs. S. L. Hammond, 



Rev. N. S. Hoagland, 



Dr. R. Hogner, 



Rev. C. L. Hut chins, 



Graham D. Johnson, 



F. B. Knapp, . . . . 



Mass. State Hospital for Epileptics, 



Miss A. McKim, 



Dr. H. W. Nelson, . 



Pontoosuc Woolen Company, . 



Rev. F. H. Rudd, . 



Salem Fraternity, . 



II. W. Shepard, 



J. F. Spaulding, 



Rev. E. Sturgis, 

 R. B. Symington, 

 F. W. Wise, . 

 Ellis G. Wood, 

 Geo. M. Whipple, . 

 Ormstead Bros., 



Frost & Co 



School for the Feeble-minded, 



Morris Gray, . 



Brockton Water Commission, 



Miss Booth, 



Ames estate, . 



Weston, . 

 Hopkinton, 



Carlisle, . 



Warwick, 



Mansfield, 



Concord, . 



Andover, 



Duxbury, 



Palmer, . 



Warwick, 



M n i -hlield, 



Pittsfield, 



Richmond, 



Rowley, . 



Salisbury, 



Tewksbury, 



Andover, 



Chiltonville, 



Wellfleet, . 



Sandwich, 



Newburvport, 



The Fells, 



Arlington and ] 



Waltham, 



Cambridge, 



Brockton, 



Springfield, 



North Easton, 



100 



130 



52 



30 



66 



200-300 



10 



30 



200-300 



30 



108 



143 



30-40 



15 



100 



25 



2S 



3,000 



1,200 



100 



50 



100 

 40 

 10 

 30 

 10 



100 



$0 50 



1 30 



50 



1 00 



74 



97 



1 50 



3 80 



1 20 



8 70 



50 



1 20 



50 

 1 80 

 3 20 

 14 65 



1 No expense. 



2 Paid by owner. 



What the General Court is asked to consider at 

 Present. 



I. Exemption from Taxation on Forest Land. 

 At present we have a law in our statutes (Revised Laws, chap- 

 ter 12, section G) that is ineffective, as it requires that 2,000 trees 

 must be set on an acre of land to exempt it from taxation, while 

 as a matter of fact 1,210 trees are all that are at present recom- 

 mended for such purposes. The species of trees for planting are 

 also too small, and the time for exemption I believe could well be 

 extended to twenty years. In Wisconsin similar planting is ex- 

 empt for thirty years. This law should be amended and modern- 

 ized to meet our needs. 



II. Forest Reserves. 

 It is time that some State forest reserve policy should be estab- 

 lished in Massachusetts. The national government is doing 

 much in this direction, and various States have State forest 

 reserves. I would not recommend that this State go into an 



