COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS 



ON 



FORESTRY, 



FROM 



ANNUAL REPORT, 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



FOR 1896 



BY J. T. ROTH ROCK, M. D., 



COMMISSIONER OF FORESTRY. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Relation of Forests to the Farmer, 17 



Removal of the Fertile Soil from the Farm by Water, 32 



A Walnut Freak, 41 



Partial Abstract Statement of Timber Cut during the Year 1896, in Penn- 

 sylvania, 44 



Partial Summary of Timber Cut by Counties, 46 



Chestnut Possibilities in Pennsylvania, 47 



Two Weeds, 52 



Losses by Fire in'Peansylvania in the Year 1896, so far as heard from, .... 54 



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