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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



STATE FORESTERS STUDY BLISTER RUST 



(Continued from page 782) 



generally distributed, resulting in pine in- 

 fection of great intensity. On an acre plot, 

 typical of conditions over an area of 

 several thousand acres, the foresters found 

 70 per cent of the trees under 10 feet high 

 attacked by the disease, mostly 1919 in- 

 fection. The pine growth is very dense, 

 but nevertheless, approximately 400 wild 

 gooseberry and skunk currant bushes were 

 found on the acre. A pine tree 7 inches in 

 diameter, breast height, had 50 cankers on 

 its stem and lower branches, within 8 feet 

 of the ground. 



A stop was made to inspect a white pine 

 planting made in 1909, where the disease 

 was first introduced into the North Hudson 

 section. The planting stock was imported 

 from a German nursery. From 1917 to 1920 

 blister rust was found on a few pines here 

 and there within a radius of ten miles of 

 this plantation. In the spring and sum- 

 mer of 1921, millions of cankers developed 

 on the pines in this territory, due to general 

 infection of currant and gooseberry bushes 

 in 1919. So severe is the infection on the 

 pines that it can best be likened to the 

 effects of forest fire. 



Returning to Chestertown, the foresters 

 saw the Faxon white pine plantation, now 

 37 years old, which is producing lumber 

 at the rate of approximately a thousand feet 

 B. M. per annum. In the same locality, 

 a visit was made to a ten acre tract which 

 was cultivated in 1865 and bore no tree 

 growth prior to 1874. White pine seed trees 

 grew on adjacent land and there is now a 

 splendid growth of straight, clean pine, 

 47 years old, 90 to 100 feet high, with many 

 trees 18 to 19 inches in diameter, breast 

 height. Sample plots were measured by a 

 timber estimator of the New York Con- 

 servation Commission, and the Massachu- 

 setts white pine volume table was applied. 

 On one quarter-acre plot the yield was es- 

 timated to be at the rate of 78,000 feet B. 

 M. per acre, and on another plot it exceed- 

 ed 87,000 feet B. M. to the acre. Pine from 

 a portion of this tract was sold last winter 

 at a price which netted the owner $17.50 per 

 thousand feet B. M. "on the stump." 



It is safe to estimate that this stand will 

 average 47 thousand feet per acre, or a 

 growth of a thousand feet B. M. per an- 

 num. In 1918 the currants and goose- 

 berries were removed from this tract at a 

 cost of less than a dollar per acre. A por- 

 tion of the area was cut over last winter 

 and a very heavy seedling growth of white 



pine has developed from last year's seed 

 crop, since a few seedling wild gooseberry 

 bushes will spring up among these small 

 pines, the ground will have to be covered 

 again, within the next three or four years, 

 but the probable cost will not exceed 50 

 cents per acre for the second working. An 

 insurance charge of 20 cents per year for 

 protecting a pine crop that yields at the 

 rate of $17.50 annually, makes it clear that 

 white pine can still be grown profitably in 

 spite of the blister rust. But pine cannot 

 be grown commercially in the infected re- 

 gions if currant and gooseberry bushes are 

 not eradicated. 



The Society for the Protection of New 

 Hampshire Forests held its annual meeting 

 on August 31 and September i at North 

 Woodstock, N. H. On September 2, many 

 of those in attendance motored to Little- 

 ton, N. H. to view the extensive damage 

 from blister rust in that locality. For many 

 miles around Littleton, infection is general, 

 plot studies showing from 50 to 90 per cent 

 of the pines attacked. Currants and goose- 

 berries have been eradicated from much of 

 the land in this locality at costs ranging 

 from 75 cents to $1.00 per acre. However, 

 the destruction of currants and gooseberies 

 protects only the healthy pines. It cannot 

 save pines infected before the work is done. 

 Both the New York and the New Hamp- 

 shire meetings passed strong resolutions, 

 urging pine owners in the Northeastern 

 States at once to uproot currants and goose- 

 berries within 200 to 300 yards of the pines. 

 More adequate State and Federal appro- 

 priations were also urged for instructing 

 pine owners in regard to the disease and 

 demonstrating methods of control. Those 

 in attendance at these meetings saw con- 

 vincing evidence of the destructive power 

 of the blister rust. The point was made 

 clear to all that the disease can be con- 

 trolled at a reasonable cost, by destroying 

 currants and gooseberries within 200 to 

 300 feet of the pines. However, it is 

 readily seen that not many land owners 

 will go to the trouble of uprooting wild 

 currants and gooseberry bushes until they 

 are aware of the presence of the rust on 

 their pines. Few pine owners know all 

 species of wild currants and gooseberries, 

 nor is it possible to clear the ground of 

 these bushes if the work is done in an un- 

 systematic, hit-or-miss manner. A few 

 hours spent in practical demonstration ac- 

 complishes results that cannot be obtained 

 through printed warnings and instructions. 



ENGLAND'S NEW FOREST POLICY 



(Continued From Page 764.) 



indeed the appropriation to deal with un- 

 employment may prove to have been the 

 only thing which tided the Commission 

 over the immediate emergency. Public 



opinion alone is a permanent guarantee 

 against a failure, which to the British na- 

 tion would be little less than calami- 

 tous. 



