AMERICAN FORESTRY 



793 



FOREST PROTECTION IN PENNSYL- 

 VANIA 



Forester Pinchot of Pennsylvania has 

 devised a method of fixing the legal and 

 financial responsibility for all forest fires, 

 and in his new organization men who com- 

 bat fires will receive pay commensurate 

 with services performed. 



Nowhere in the United States has so 

 complete a plan been perfected for the 

 prompt detection and extinction of fires, 

 and for the inspection and elimination of 

 hazards. 



An approprition of $1,000,000 by the Leg 

 islature for forest protection has made it 

 possible for the Department of Forestry to 

 purchase and erect 50 steel forest fire ob- 

 servation towers. Most of these towers are 

 sixty feet high, and they have been put up 

 on the highest mountain tops in the State. 

 Eighteen other steel towers were previously 

 erected, giving the Department of Forestry 

 sixty-eight stations from which observers 

 may detect and locate forest fires. Every 

 one of the towers is connected by telephone 

 with men in nearby communities whose 

 duty it is to respond with a crew of men 

 to attack the flames when fire is discovered. 



Roads and trails have been constructed 

 in many of the State Forests, so that the 

 remote sections are now more accessible 

 to foresters and their fire-fighting crews. 

 Each forest district has been divided into 

 blocks of forest land, extending from 50,000 

 to 150,000 acres. Each area is in charge of 

 an inspector, each tower is manned by a 

 towerman, fire bosses have been elected 

 from the best fire wardens located at con- 

 venient points for the suppression of fire. 



Fire crews have been organized, equipped 

 and trained so that they are ready im- 

 mediately to respond when calls come to 

 the fire bosses from towermen or inspectors. 

 Patrolmen and wardens are other units in 

 the fire protective organization. 



This organization, heading in the office 

 of each District Forester, has given Penn- 

 sylvania a systematic plan for the preven- 

 tion of forest fires that is far better than 

 anything of a similar nature that has been 

 attained in this country. 



GEORGIA COMMITTEE INCREASES 



New members are being added to the 

 Georgia Committee of Forestry and plans 

 are going forward for the work. This 

 committee is separate and apart from the 

 Georgia State Board of Forestry, which re 

 cently met at the State Capitol in the offices 

 of Governor Hardwick, who is an ex-of 

 ficio member of the Board. The member- 

 ship of the Georgia Forestry Committee 

 includes the names of many of the most 

 prominent men and women in the State, and 

 the interest and activity already evident 

 gives promise of vigorous accomplishment. 



Make it a General Order 



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"Letters invoices packages every piece of mail 

 should bear tuberculosis Christmas Seals." 



Will you issue such an order and help us continue the 

 health work which is saving over 75,000 lives in the 

 United States each year? 



The result of this tremendous crusade amounts to an 

 economic saving of hundreds of millions of dollars 

 annually a salvage that affects every business in 

 America. 



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The National, State and Local Tuberculosis Associations of the United States 



INCREASED PRODUCTION OF NAVAL STORES. 



Compilation of reports from the individ- 

 ual producers and consumers of naval stores 

 for the 1920 producing season by the Bu- 

 reau of Chemistry, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, shows that 488,548 

 casks of gum spirits of turpentine and l,- 

 577.398 round barrels of gum rosin were 

 made. There were on hand at the stills on 

 March 31, 1921, the close of the 1920 seas- 

 on, 30,429 casks of spirits of turpentine 

 and 327,055 round barrels of rosin. 



During the calendar year 1920 a total of 

 34,932 casks of wood turpentine and 180,- 



138 barrels of wood rosin and reclaimed 

 rosin were made. The stocks at wood-dis- 

 tilling and rosin-reclaiming plants on De- 

 cember 31, 1920, were 7,616 casks of tur- 

 pentine and 50,882 barrels of rosin. 



On March 31, 1921, the consuming indus- 

 tries of the country had on hand or in 

 transit to the plants a total of 30,528 casks 

 of turpentine and 217,302 barrels of rosin. 

 On this same date the stocks at the ports 

 and in hands of large dealers and jobbers 

 at the principal distributing points of the 

 country were 74,686 casks of turpentine and 

 479,142 barrels of rosin. 



