170 BOAED OF AGKiCULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY, ROADS AND ROADSIDE 

 IMPROVEMENTS. 



[Read and accepted at the Annual Meeting, Jan. 12, 1909.] 



Your committee desires to submit the following brief 

 report. 



Since our last meeting the following enactments by the 

 General Court have been made : — 



I. Forestry : — 



(a) Reforestation act. (Chapter 478, sections 1-10.) 



(&) Forest fire protection act. (Chapter 209, sections 1-5). 



(c) Revised Laws on exemption of reforested land from 



taxation. (Chapter 120, section 6.) * 



(d) A Resolve authorizing the sale of certain publications of 



the State Forester. (Chapter 121.) 

 II. Roads and roadside improvement : — 



(a) An Act relative to shade trees. (Chapter 296, sections 



1-6.) 

 (&) An Act relative to trees, shrubs and other growths on 



State highways. (Chapter 297, sections 1 and 2.) 



This new legislation is timely, and, it is believed by your 

 committee, will prove of great value in improving our for- 

 estry conditions, and in embellishing our roadsides and 

 making conditions more in keeping with what they should 

 be throughout this Commonwealth. 



We will not go into a detailed report on the forestry work 

 as the State Forester's report, which will be discussed by him 

 before this Board, will cover this ground. 



While we recognize the splendid work being carried out 

 by our tree warden act, and realize that the new legislation 



