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to fires. 



On the tract burned over yearly, only 

 three-tenths of one per cent of the long- 

 leaf saplings were over 2 feet in height 

 and the tallest was 2.8 feet, while on the 

 protected tract 16.3 per cent were over 

 2 feet and the tallest measured 7 feet. 

 The effect of burning on a very small tract 

 of this size, whether controlled or not, 

 is probably considerably less severe and 

 injurious than that resulting from a fire 

 over a large area where there occurs a 

 preliminary period of heating and drying 

 by the wave of hot air preceding the ar- 

 rival of the blazing fire front. 



NATIONAL FOREST GRAZING FEES 

 /"* RAZING at the present is the princi- 

 pal source of money return to the Gov- 

 ernment from the National Forests, states 

 Secretary of Agriculture E. T. Meredith 

 in his annual report to the President. Since 

 1915, adds the Secretary, the grazing fees 

 have been doubled, with the view of mak- 

 ing them commensurate with current rental 

 rates for neighboring private lands of the 

 same character When the existing rates 

 were established, the users of the range 

 understood that they would remain in effect 



for five years, and many of the grazing 

 permits were issued for this period. The 

 value of the grazing privilege on many 

 Tinges subsequently advanced. 



With reference to the increased rates 

 for use of the range, no policy has been 

 laid down by Congress for the guidance of 

 the Department in the exercise of the ad- 

 ministrative discretion, with which it has 

 for fifteen years been vested, to determine 

 the conditions under which the use of the 

 range should be permitted. If Congress de- 

 sires to prescribe such a policy, says Secre- 

 tary Meredith, it should not take effect 

 until after 1923, when the existing leases 



will expire. 



BOOK PAPER FROM SOUTHERN 

 PINE AND RED GUM 



THE possibility of using southern pine 

 and red gum for the production of high 

 grade book and magazine paper has been 

 demonstrated in recent trials at the United 

 States Forest Products Laboratory, Madi- 

 son, Wisconsin. Book paper requires for 

 its manufacture two kinds of woods a 

 long-fibered wood, such as spruce, to im- 

 part strength, and some short-fibered hard- 

 wood to give the formation, finish, opacity, 

 and other printing qualities. The southern 



pines are long-fibered woods, excellently 

 suited for the manufacture of wrapping 

 paper and fiber board, but their pitch con- 

 tent and the difficulty of bleaching them 

 have heretofore been obstacles in the way 

 of their use for white paper. These obsta- 

 cles, it has been shown, can be overcome 

 in a large measure by proper cooking con- 

 ditions and improved bleaching methods. 

 Red gum is typical of many southern hard- 

 woods that might be used with the pines in 

 the manufacture of the better grades of 

 printing paper 



Additional information and samples of 

 the paper made in the trial runs of pine and 

 red gum may be obtained from the Forest 

 Products Laboratory on request. 



CLUB ENDORSES NATIONAL FORES- 

 TRY PROGRAM 



AT a regular meeting of the Natural 

 History Club of New York City, held 

 in December, 1920, the club voted unani- 

 mously to endorse the National Forestry 

 Program formulated at the meeting of the 

 Wood Using Industries and the American 

 Forestry Association on October 15, 1920, 

 a piinted copy of the Program being read 

 to the club. 



The Whole Country Is Now Voting For A National Tree 



in the American Forestry Association's campaign of education. Every school is taking this 

 up. Will you help the cause of Forestry by putting the magazine in one or more schools in 

 your town ? The teachers and the pupils need the magazine. Will you put it in their hands ? 



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Some of Those Who Have Contributed the American Forestry Magazine To Schools 



Potomac Electric Power Company, Thomas P. Pendleton, H. G. Munger, Dr. L. M. Day, William T. Gould, Mrs. Herbert 

 S. Greims, Henry Burden, Mrs, Cary T. Grayson, W. G. Arn, John Gerow Dutcher, W. A. Harriman, David A. Gregg, 

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