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 NEW YORK CITY OFFICE 



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B9 STATE NEWS ^ 



"It Will Be Growin* While Ye're Sleepin*." 

 THIS IS TRUE 

 of forestry plantations and of memorial trees, 

 especially if dependable planting material 

 is secured from a reliable source 

 FORTY YEARS and more 

 this has been headquarters for all kinds of 

 First Grade, Dependable Forestry Material- 

 Seeds, seedlings and transplants. 

 Also the specimen trees for memorials. We are 

 now equipped to furnish you your list complete, 

 at special inducement prices, much in your 

 favor. Send your orders or lists for quotation 

 to our 



Trade Exchange Department, 

 promptly to secure first selection and reservation 



of the stock. 



F. W. KELSEY NURSERY COMPANY. 



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THE 



TREE BOOK 



by Julia Ellen Rogers 



No effort has been spared to make this 

 the most complete work ofi'skind. 

 Written by an authority, provided 

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 black and white, and superbly bound. 



"The most valuable, accurate and elabo- 

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 our native trees. " N E W Y ORK H ER- 

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Accurate and exhaustive. Enables a 

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 the vast subject of the uses of trees and 

 how to grow and care for them. 



The illustrations are fiom photographs 

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 complete, beautiful and helpful series ever 

 made of important details as well as com- 

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 with 17 color plates and 350 half-tone 

 illustrations. - Net $6.00 



CALIFORNIA 

 pAUL G. REDINGTON, District For- 

 ester, says : Because of the large num- 

 ber of forest fires, traceable directly to the 

 carelessness of tourists, campers, hunters 

 and fishermen, which have occurred within 

 the National Forests during the last few 

 years, written permits will be required be- 

 fore camp fires may be built in California. 

 Last year over one and one-half million 

 people visited the National Forests in Cal- 

 ifornia, and the travel into the Forests has 

 become so great that every possible pre- 

 caution must be taken to prevent forest 

 fires from starting. All campers and tour- 

 ists are urged to get a written permit 

 before building any fires and should be 

 very careful to see that all fires are thor- 

 oughly out before they are left. 



Camp fire permits will be required in 

 the Angeles, Cleveland, Eldorado, Kla- 

 math, Lassen, Plumas, Santa Barbara, 

 Shasta, Tahoe and Trinity National For- 

 ests. They are issued free of charge by 

 all Forest Officers in the field and by nu- 

 merous merchants and fire agents on and 

 near the National Forests. 



Assembly Bill No. 769 provides that 

 each teacher in any public school of the 

 State of California shall devote a reason- 

 able time in each month during which 

 -^uch school is in session to the instruction 

 of the pupils in a course of study and fire 

 prevention comprising ways and means 

 of preventing loss and damage to lives 

 and property through preventable fires : 



District Forester Redington says : "We 

 believe that this is a very valuable pre- 

 ventative measure and should greatly help 

 reduce man-caused fires in the woods, as 

 well as in the homes." 



Last year in California fires destroyed 

 timber, grass and grain worth $983,562 

 and burned over approximately 415,275 

 acres. This bill will go far to provide 

 a remedy for the needless destruction of 

 timber and other resources. Another and 

 very simple remedy may be summed up in 

 the phrase "Help Protect The Forests Be 

 Careful With Fire." This done, seventy- 

 five per cent of our forestry problems will 

 be solved. 



NEW YORK. 



'T' HE sale of trees to private individuals 

 from the New York State Nurseries 

 during the spring planting season of 1921 

 shows a decided increase in the demand 

 for trees for reforestation purposes over 

 the last four years. The sales for the 

 spring planting alone this year almost 

 equal the total distribution for last year. 

 year. 



M HE 

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The advantages to be derived from the 

 reforestation of cut-over woodlots and 

 land not well suited to agricultural pur- 

 poses are appealing to more and more 

 farmers every year, and since 1908 when 

 the State began supplying trees to indi- 

 viduals at cost, more than thirty million 

 trees or, allowing 1000 trees to the acre, 

 thirty thousand acres 'have been set out in 

 private plantations. 



The records of the State Conservation 

 Commission show that from 1901 to 1920 

 inclusive, 60,372,684 trees were planted in 

 New York State and that this number 

 was about equally divided between pri- 

 vate individuals and the State, private 

 plantations totalling 29,033,805, and State 

 plantations 31,408,879. 



The largest shipments were Scotch pine, 

 1.320,325 trees, and Norway spruce, 1,135,- 

 600. Other varieties were: white pine, red 

 pine, white spruce, white cedar, European 

 larch, black locust, white ash and Caro- 

 lina poplar. 



NORTH CAROLINA 



HE Geological and Economic Survey 

 North Carolina, following the 

 President's proclamation of Forest Pro- 

 tection Week, prepared a bulletin ad- 

 dressed to the boys and girls of the State 

 urging their cooperation and support. 

 Written in a manner sure to interest them, 

 the bulletin contains pertinent facts and 

 valuable information relative to our for- 

 ests and their protection and perpetuation. 

 The Survey distributed twenty-five thou- 

 sand copies of this bulletin, to which was 

 appended a copy of the President's For- 

 est Protection Week proclamation, to the 

 schools, boy scout and similar organiza- 

 tions throughout the State, as well as to 

 the press. Such splendid publicity work 

 in North Carolina will undoubtedly serve 

 to create and stimulate the public interest 

 in forest conservation. 



PENNSYLVANIA 



'"PHE State Forest Commission has taken 

 action to establish about fifteen State 

 Parks, or recreation grounds in different 

 sections of Pennsylvania. Governor 

 Sproul recently approved a law author- 

 izing the Commission to set aside within 

 the State Forests unusual or historical 

 groves of trees especially worthy of per- 

 manent preservation. The law provides 

 that the Parks are to be made accessible 

 and convenient for public use, and they are 

 to be dedicated in perpetuity to the people 

 of the State for their recreation and en- 

 joyment. 



Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker, a member 

 of the Forest Commission, has suggested 

 a list of fifteen historical and noteworthy 



