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PINE BEETLES FILMED 



living western pine forests from its in- 

 sect enemy, the western pine beetle, is 

 shown in a new one-reel motion picture 

 produced by the United States Department 

 of Agriculture. The new film, entitled 

 "i'lghting Western Pine Beetles", is a 

 graphic story of the work of the Bureau 

 i)f Entomology of the department in con- 

 trolling this pest, which annually causes 

 great destruction among valuable timber, 

 rhe fact that the insects concentrate in 

 certain trees affords practically the sole 

 important means of combating it. The bee- 

 tle works under the bark, girdling the tree 

 with a maze of passageways, which in time 

 kills even the biggest timber. In one scene, 

 for instance, is shown a forest giant 230 

 feet high and 84 inches in diameter, killed 

 by a mass attack of the pests. The de- 

 partment maintains control camps in vari- 

 ous sections where the pest is particularly 

 bad. It is the work of the men of the 

 camp to keep a sharp lookout for trees in- 

 fested with the beetle. Tiny holes in the 

 bark usually betray the presence of the 

 marauder. There are two methods of de- 

 stroying the pest one for dry weather 

 and one for other seasons. In either case 

 the tree is felled. In the dry season, the 

 limbs and bark are stripped off and all, in- 

 cluding the log itself, exposed to the sun 

 for several days. The bark, it seems, ab- 

 sorbs heat to 130 degrees, which is enough 

 to kill the beetle in the larval stage. At 



other seasons the stripped bark and limbs 

 are piled along the trunk and burned. This 

 kills the insect without damaging the log. 



NEW YORK'S FOREST FIRES 



The 1921 fire chart of the Conservation 

 Commission shows the progress that the 

 State has made in reducing the amount 

 of forest fire losses through the develop- 

 ment of its fire protective system. 



The season just ended was the worst 

 in many years, not only in this State, 

 but in other eastern states and in Canada. 

 There were more fires this year than in 

 any previous season of the thirty years 

 for which records are available, but the 

 losses were trifling in comparison with 

 other years, as the result of the promptness 

 and efficiency with which they were con- 

 trolled. 



With a total of 720 fires, the total loss 

 amounted to $49,920, as compared with 

 $850,000 from 64s fires in 1903, and $800,- 

 000 loss from 600 fires in 1908, before the 

 present system of fire protection was es- 

 tablished. 



During the time when forest fires were 

 burning last spring and through a large 

 part of the summer, there were days and 

 days of high winds which made it almost 

 impossible to bring them under control. 



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