to the state, besides supporting many .industries, .conserving 

 water power, preventing floods, equalizing; -iho flcyage of our 

 streams, and in many other ways yielding indirect Benefits 

 far greater than the cash returns. It isVwprk* . foi \ the 'stn;r 

 rather than for private enterprise on account of the long-time 

 investment. We now have one of the best state forest serv- 

 ices in the country and an efficient college of forestry in the 

 university. Let us put these and other agencies to work 

 along these lines and prepare for our children a lasting her- 

 itage, increasing in value from generation to generation. 



The tenth successive year without a forest fire lias just been 

 passed by the Powell national forest in south-central rtah. 



Yellow poplar, or tulip tree, the largest broad-leaf tree in 

 America, lias been known to reach nearly 200 feet in height and 

 10 feet in diameter. 



Pennsylvania lias about 7 l / 2 million acres of timbcrland, one- 

 eiglith of which is owned by the state. The total value of the 

 state's timber is 139 million dollars. 



Arrangements hare just been made for the sale of 40 million 

 feet of timber on the Tonyass national forest in Alaska. This 

 forest is cut up by bays and t inlets, some of zvhich give an oppor- 

 tunity for taking the timber from the mill to the decks of ocean- 

 going steamers. The Tongass forest is now self-supporting, its 

 lumber product being used largely in local industries, much go- 

 ing into boxes for canned salmon. 



California state inspectors at San J'raneisco have found a new 

 canker disease on chestnut trees recently imported from Japan. 

 According to Dr. Haven Metcalf, the governments expert on 

 such diseases, this appears to be of the same type as the chestnut 

 blight which is ravaging the forests of the Eastern United 

 States, and it is possible that the new disease would be equally 

 as destructive if it became established in this country. 



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