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BOASTS VENERABLE TREES 

 Some of the oldest plantations of for- 

 est trees in New York State liave been 

 discovered at Millbrook, Dutchess county. 

 by workers from the forestry department 

 of the state agricultural college at Ithaca, 

 according to the local paper, "The Mirror 

 and Reading Table." The record trees a\-e 

 on the Dieterich Estate at Millbrook, and 

 are in a forest preserved principally as a 

 home for game, where deer and other ani- 

 mals have the freedom of the woods. 



Members of the forestry department of 

 the college are available, usually through 

 county agents, to look over forest plantings 

 and give advice and help as to the benefits 

 of this long-tinie crop. 



REVISING POLE SPECIFICATIONS 



A T the request of the overhead systems 

 ^*- committee of the National Electric 

 Light Association the Forest Products 

 Laboratory is collecting data on the taper 

 and strength of various pole species, in- 

 cluding southern yellow pine, chestnut, 

 western red cedar and northern white 

 cedar, in order to check up, or, if need be, 

 revise their standard specifications for 

 poles. Data are also being collected on 

 ihe efficiency of various treatments com- 

 monly usied for poles. These data are 

 based on the results of service tests by 

 the Forest Products Laboratory that have 

 extended over a period of applproximately 

 fourteen years. 



MORE FOREST EXPERIMENT 



STATIONS 

 America must take measures to meet a 

 critical timber situation which is yearly be- 

 coming more critical, the Forest Service, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, 

 reports in a review of conditions existing 

 in the forests and the wood-consuming in- 

 dustries. The ax has cut to the heart of 

 eastern American forests and immediate 

 steps should be taken to grow timber if this 

 country is to avoid dependence on foreign 

 supplies with drastic limitations in amount 

 and the excessive prices which such a situ- 

 ation would impose. 



"We have already cut or burned over five- 

 sixths of our original timber area of 822,- 

 000,000 acres," says the report. "Three- 

 fourths of our total utilization and prac- 

 tically all the high grade material is still 

 from virgin stands. We can not indefinite- 

 ly use or destroy 26,000,000,000 cubic feet a 

 year and grow only 6,000,000,000. We shall 

 soon have to grow a much larger part of 

 the 20,ooo,ooo,ooo-foot difference. Forest 

 experiment stations are needed to find out 

 and demonstrate how to grow this enor- 

 mous volume of wood." 



Eventually 10 such stations, each with a 

 technical staff of from 6 to 12 men, are 

 needed, the service states, 5 in the East, 3 

 in the Rocky Mountains and 2 on the Pa- 

 cific coast. At the present time there are 2 

 stations in the East and i in the West, the 

 others, through lack of funds, being reduced 

 to a one-man basis. Where the proposed 

 stations are needed is summarized as fol- 

 lows : 



In the Southern pine belt, where four- 

 fifths of the original 650,000,000,000 feet 

 have been cut since 1870, chiefly since 1890, 

 and where the crest of production already 

 has passed, and with it is going world lead- 

 ership in the naval-stores industry. That 

 leadership, it is stated, is passing to the ar- 

 tificially established maritime forests of 

 France. 



In the Lake States where a supposedly 

 inexhaustible supply has disappeared pre- 

 cipitately within the past 20 years and where 

 utterly inadequate steps to reforest are be- 

 ing made. 



In the Northeast, where the timber prob- 

 lems of New England, and northern and 

 eastern New York press for solution, with 

 the Government doing no research work 

 of that kind whatever. 



In the .^lleghanies, where forest prob- 

 lems of Pennsylvania, southern and western 

 New York, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey 

 and Delaware are also receiving no in- 

 vestigative attention from the Federal Gov- 

 ernment, although production has fallen 

 spectacularly and a tremendous acreage is 

 barren of trees at this time. 



In the Appalachian Mountain forest re- 

 gion, chief source of the hardwood sup- 



