THE PINE BLISTER DISEASE 



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is worth from $2.50 to $3 per M. A Forest Service nurs- 

 ery in western Montana now produces about two and one- 

 half million seedlings of western white pine annually, and 

 the Service has already planted and seeded at least 8000 

 acres. Merchanta- 

 ble western white 

 pine is found over 

 an area of about 

 27,500,000 acres. It 

 forms an important 

 percentage of the 

 standover5,000,000 

 acres. From 2,000,- 

 000 to 3,000,000 

 acres bear young 

 growth. Present 

 annual growth 

 equals about 150 

 million feet and this 

 under continued 

 management could 

 easily be doubled. 

 Selected acres show 

 a production of 

 100,000feet per acre 

 in 120 years. The 

 tree occurs largely 

 i n a mountainous 

 region where if the 

 blister disease were 



PUBLICITY ON THE PIXE BLISTER DISEASE CAMPAIGN 



The battle to arouse public sentiment as to the importance of checking the spread of the pine blister 

 disease has been started on a country wide basis by the American Forestry Association with the estab- 

 lishment of a publicity bureau. This department collects data from every state in the Union and in 

 Canada and keeps the newspapers informed. Every Washington correspondent of a newspaper, the 

 Associated Press, the United Press Association and the International News Service, with their daily 

 papers aggregating 10,000 clients, are served with regular news bulletins dealing with develop- 

 ments in the various states. The copy is written on stencils and then put on a machine, so anywhere 

 from a dozen to a thousand copies of a "story" may be run off in a short time. Russell T. Edwards 

 has been placed in charge of the publicity work with a corps of assistants. 



once established its control would be exceedingly difficult 

 and costly, if not impossible. 



The sugar pine of California occurs as a merchantable 

 tree over about 20,000,000 acres, and forms an important 

 percentage of the stand within about 3,000,000 acres. 

 It should be found permanently in forest mixtures on 

 about 10,000,000 acres. There are about 14 billion feet of 

 sugar pine on the National forests and 20 billion in private 

 holdings, worth on the average about $3. The present 



annuak growth of sugar pine is about 100 million 

 feet, and this can be considerably increased under 

 management. Sugar pine, like the western white pine, 

 occurs in a mountainous, inaccessible country. 



This is the situ- 

 ation reduced to 

 cold facts. The 

 task of preventing 

 the further spread 

 of the disease is 

 now up to the Na- 

 tional Government, 

 the State Govern- 

 ments, and the peo- 

 ple. It may already 

 be too late to save 

 the pines. 



Little attention 

 was given the 

 chestnut blight 

 when it first ap- 

 peared. Later when 

 its danger was real- 

 ized hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars 

 were spent in an 

 effort to overcome 

 it. That failed. 

 More money was 

 spent in the effort 

 to confine it to certain areas. It was too late. That failed 

 also and now we can consider our chestnuts as doomed. 

 Is it too late to save the pines? That, the future alone 

 can answer. It is not too early to try to suppress it, to 

 stamp it out, if possible, and, at any rate, to retard its 

 progress or to confine it to areas where it is already appar- 

 ent. But if action is to be taken, it should be taken at 

 once. There should be no delay. Action prompt, vigorous, 

 and far reaching is desired. 



Members of the Committee of Suppression 



The Committee for the Suppression of the Pine Blister 

 Disease of North America comprises the following : 



Arizona A.W. Morrill, State Entomologist, Phoenix; E. P. Taylor, Tucson. 



California G. M. Homans, State Forester, Sacramento; E. O. Essig, 

 University of California, Berkeley. 



Canad\ Dr. C Gordon Hewitt. Dominion Entomologist. Ottawa; G. C. 

 Piche, Chief of the Forest Service, Quebec; Clyde Leavitt, Forester. Commission 

 of Conservation, Quebec. 



Colorad.) W. J. Morrill, State Forester, Fort Collins; C. P. Gillette. 

 State Entomologist, Fort Collins. 



Connecticut W. O. Filley. State Forester, New Haven ; Dr. W. E. Britton, 

 State Entomologist, New Haven; Prof. J. W. Tourney, Director, Yale Forest 

 School, New Haven; Dr. G. P. Clinton, New Haven. 



Delaware Wesley Webb, State Board of Agriculture. Dover. 



Illinois E. A. Sterling, Mgr. Trade Extension Division, and R. S. Kellogg, 

 Secretary Natl. Lumber Mfrs. Assn.. Chicago; Stephen A. Forbes. Entomologist. 

 Urbana. 



Indiana Frank N. Wallace. State Entomologist, Indianapolis; E. A. 

 Gladden, Secretary, State Board of Forestry. Indianapolis. 



Iowa R. L. Webster, Acting State Entomologist, Ames. 



Kentucky H. Garmon, Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington; 

 J. E. Barton, State Forester, Frankfort. 



Maine Frank E. Mace, Forest Commissioner, Augusta; Prof. John M. 

 Briscoe. University of Maine. Orono; E. E. Ring, Bangor. 



Maryland Thomas B. Symmes. Director, Maryland State College ot 

 Agriculture. College Park; F. W. Besley. State Forester, Baltimore. 



Massachusetts Wilfred Wheeler, State House, Boston; Hams A. Rey- 

 nolds. Sec. Massachusetts Forestry Assn., Boston; F. W. Rane, State Forester, 

 State House, Boston: William P. Wharton. Groton. 



Michigan A. C. Carton, Secretary. Public Domain Commission, Lansing; 

 L. R. Taft, State Board of Agriculture. East Lansing. 



Minnesota W. T. Cox, State Forester, Saint Paul; F. L. Washburn, 

 State Entomologist, St. Anthony Park; E. M. Freeman, Plant Pathologist, 

 St. Paul. 



Montana John C. Van Hook, State Forester, Helena; M. L. Dean, State 

 Horticulturist, Missoula. 



New Hampshire E. C. Hirst, State Forester, Concord; Philip W. Ayers, 

 Forester, Society for the Protection of N. H. Forests; Prof. O. R. Butler, Botan- 

 ist, N. H. College, Durham; Prof. W. C. O'Kane, Entomologist, Durham. 



New Jersey Harry D. Weiss, Chief Nursery Inspector, New Brunswick; 

 Mel. T. Cook, Plant Pathologist, Agricultural Exp. Station, New Brunswick. 



New York C. R. Pettis, Conservation Commission, Albany; Prof. George 

 G. Atwood, Chief, Bureau Plant Industry, Albany; Victor A. Beede, Secretary, 

 New York State Forestry Assn., Syracuse. 



North Carolina J. S. Holmes, State Forester, Chapel Hill; Franklin 

 Sherman, Jr., Entomologist, Raleigh. 



Ohio N. E. Shaw, Chief Bureau of Horticulture. Columbus; Edmund 

 Secrest, Forester, Wooster; A. D. Selby, Botanist, Agricultural Exp. Station, 

 Wooster. 



Oregon F. A. Elliott, State Forester, Salem. 



Pennsylvania J. G. Sanders, State Entomologist. Harrisburg; Robert S. 

 Conklin, Commissioner of Forestry, Harrisburg. 



Rhode Island Jesse B. Mowry. Chepachet; Prof. H. H. York, Brown 

 University, Providence; Dr. A. E. Stene, Entomologist, Providence. 



South Dakota George W. Roskie, State Forester, Custer. 



Tennessee R. S. Maddox, Forester. Nashville. 



Vermont A. F. Hawes, State Forester, Burlington. 



Virginia A. C. Jones, State Forester, Charlottesville; W. J. Schoene. 

 Entomologist, Blacksburg. . . . . 



West Virginia A. B. Brooks, Forester, West Virginia University, Morgan- 

 town; J. A. Viquesney, Forest, Game and Fish Warden, Belington. % 



Wisconsin L. R. Jones, Professor of Plant Pathology, Madison; F. B. 

 Moody, Commissioner, Madison. 



American Forestry Association Charles Lathrop Pack. Lakewood, N. J. 



