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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FOR PENNSYLVANIA FORESTS 

 A T an enthusiastic meeting of the Cen- 

 tre County, Pennsylvania, Conservation 

 Association, at State College, Pennsylvania, 

 recently remarks were made by Ralph A. 

 Smith, of Sandy Ridge, the president, and 

 by Colonel W. F. Reynolds, of Belief onte; 

 Cdlonel Theodore Boal, of Boalsburg, and 

 Dean R. L. Watts, of State College, vice- 

 presidents of the Association, and by a 

 number of directors and members. Major 

 R. Y. Stuart, Deputy Forestry Commis- 

 sioner of the State, spoke of the present 

 and future plans of the State Forestry De- 

 partment, of the necessity of securing an 

 appropriation of $1,000,000 from the next 

 State Legislature for protecting the forests 

 from fire for the next two years, and of 

 the plan for bonding the State for $25,- 

 000,000 for extending the State ownership 

 of forest lands. Believing that forestry is 

 the foundation of the conservation prob- 

 lem in Centre County, it was the senti- 

 ment of the Association that every effort 

 should be put forth to encourage the re- 

 forestation of denuded forest lands and 

 their protection against fire, the planting 

 up of farm woodlots, and the planting of. 

 trees around schools and churches and 

 along the highways, and that all ithe vari- 

 ous activities of the Association be en 

 couraged. Resolutions were passed en- 

 dorsing the forestry policy of the State 

 Forestry Department, and agreeing to lend 



every effort to the securing of an appro- 

 priation of money from the next Legisla- 

 ture that will adequately protect the for- 

 ests from destruction by fire; and endors- 

 ing the rplan to bond the State for $25,000,- 

 000 for the extension of State ownership 

 of forest land. 



The department is urging fanners who 

 use the slack time of late fall and early 

 winter in getting in firewood to select trees 

 that have been infested with insect pests. 



PINE BEETLE INFLICTS BIG 



DAMAGE TO SOUTHERN TREES 

 A PPROXIMATELY $20,000,000 damage 

 was inflicted by the southern pine bee- 

 tle in its attack on southern timber forests 

 during two decades, according to investi- 

 gations made by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture concerning destruc- 

 tion caused by insect forest pests. Added 

 to this damage is that of the black and the 

 red turpentine beetle. 



The hickory-bark beetle is found to be 

 doing extensive damage in the northern 

 tier of States from Wisconsin to Vermont 

 and southward through the Atlantic States 

 to central Georgia. 



The department has issued three bulletins 

 of particular interest to farmers who have 

 hickory or pine trees on their lands. They 

 are : "The Dying Hickory Trees, Cause and 

 Remedy," Bureau of Entomology Circular 

 144 ; "The Dying Pine Trees, Cause and 

 Remedy," Farmer's Bulletin 474 ; and "The 

 Black Turpentine Beetle and Red Turpen- 

 tine Beetle," reprint from Bulletin 83, Part 

 I, Bureau of Entomology. 



FORESTS OF FRENCH GUIANA 

 TN spite of the enormous extent of the 

 tropical forests of French Guiana, which 

 cover an area equal to one-sixth of the 

 surface of France, and- in spite of the great 

 variety of precious species of trees, the ex- 

 ploitation of the Guiana woods has been 

 developed only to a very small extent, says 

 "Fortnightly Survey of French Economic 

 Conditions," published in New York by 

 the French Commission in the United 

 States. 



French Guiana is intersected by 22 rivers 

 so that the problem of transportation may 

 be easily solved, labor is abundant and 

 cheap and in the marketing of forest prod- 

 ucts, the demand will always exceed the 

 supply. The vast virgin forest of Guiana 

 with its straight, high, enormously-trunked 

 trees of mahogany, rosewood, tulipwood, 

 ebony, cedar, satinwood, and more than 70 

 other species, is not only in itself a source 

 of great wealth but the clearing of the 

 forests will open the way to development 

 of gold deposits whose value cannot yet 

 be estimated. 



Merchants and manufacturers of France 

 are now organizing for serious enterprises 

 in this new country. 



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