AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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SMOKERS AND FOREST FIRES 



From reports received at the District 

 Forester's office, a total of 100 forest fires 

 in Oregon and Washington during 1921 

 were due to smokers. These reports are 

 from only thirteen of the twenty-two Na- 

 tional Forests but indicate, forest officers 

 say, that a far greater percentage of forest 

 fires the caused each year by cigarette and 

 cigar stubs an dmatches than is generally 

 supposed. 



The Okanogan Forest .i;eports that 39 

 per cent of their fires were due to smokers, 

 while 16 fires on the Crater Forest which 

 cost $225 to put out started from smokers' 

 cigarette stubs or unextinguished matches. 

 The Whitman Forest states that 21 fires 

 on that forest were due to smokers. The 

 Colville Forest reports that it cost $874 to 

 put out 10 fires starting from smokers, 

 while the Olympic Forest had only one 

 smoker's fire but that cost $68 to extin- 

 guish. 



A tobacco firm in Canada recently 

 adopted the novel plan of making each 

 package of its cigarettes preach a sermon 

 against forest fires. Neatly tucked away 

 amid its aromatic contents is a small red 

 slip on which these words are printed : 



"Please don't throw away a lighted 

 cigarette. See that it is dead out. 



"Lighted tobacco and matches are es- 

 pecially destructive in the forests. 



"Living forests mean liberal employ- 

 ment; dead forests employ nobody. 

 "Don't be responsible for a dead forest. 

 "This caution is printed as a contribu- 

 tion to the forest conservation move- 

 ment." 



Americans, seeing these little red slips 

 have been heard to wonder why similar 

 action has not been taken by the United 

 States tobacco manufacturers, especially in 

 view of the large number of fires caused 

 yearly by careless smokers. 



Cigars and cigarettes consumed every 

 single day in the year, if placed end to end, 

 would reach from the Atlantic to the Pa- 

 cific and back again ; 80,777 cigarettes and 

 13.835 cigars are burned to ashes for every 

 minute of the 24 hours. The combined 

 total lengths of cigars and cigarettes smok- 

 ed annually in the United States aggregate 

 almost 2,275,000 miles over six times the 

 total milage of the nation's railroads. 



E. Brooks. The habits and life history of 

 the insect have been determined sufficient- 

 ly to allow the study of control measures, 

 which have been conducted successfully in 

 two important black-walnut groves. 



A lead-arsenate spray was used in both 

 instances, with the result that in one grove 

 a count of the nuts showed that 4 per cent 

 had been attacked by the maggots, compared 

 with 60 per cent destruction the year be- 

 fore. In the other the condition was es- 

 timated as 75 per cent better than during 

 the previous season. Flies confined in 

 roomy wire-screen cages were observed to 

 feed freely on sweetened water, to which 

 sufficient lead arsenate had been added to 

 give the liquid a milky color. They, how- 

 ever, succumbed slowly to the poison, and 

 further tests are thought advisable before 

 this treatment can be fully recommended. 



KILLING FLIES OF WALNUT HUSK- 

 MAGGOT 



Experiments in the control of the wal- 

 nut husk-maggot, a serious enemy of the 

 black walnut, have been conducted with 

 success by the Bureau of Entomology, 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 

 The results of the work accomplished as 

 far as it has gone are now published by 

 the department in Department Bulletin 992, 

 entitled the Walnut Husk-maggot, by Fred 



LUMBERMEN ENDORSE FOREST 

 POLICY 



The Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo 

 composed of lumbermen representing all 

 sections of the United States has vigor- 

 ously endorsed the national forest policy 

 movement in the following set of resolu 

 tions : 



WHEREAS: The perpetuation of the 

 timber supply oi the United States is of 

 vital importance to the country, and 



WHEREAS ; The timber is being denud- 

 ed much more rapidly than it is being 

 grown, it is imperatively demanded that a 

 National Forest Policy be at once inau- 

 gurated which will provide for a survey 

 of the present timber area of the various 

 states, and also of the denuded and idle 

 lands, with the view of their re-forestation 

 either by private individuals, state or na- 

 tional governments. 



THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: 

 That the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo 

 pledges its best efforts toward enlisting 

 the cooperation of each state and the na- 

 tional government in securing the adoption 

 of such policies as will ensure an ade- 

 quate supply of timber for the nation's 

 needs, and 



BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: 

 That one of the most essential steps in 

 forest conservation is protecting the young 

 and mature timber from fires, and there- 

 fore the members of Congress should be 

 impressed with the necessity of providing 

 adequate funds for the Forest Service in 

 order to reduce to the minimum the fire 

 hazard, insect and other destructive causes. 

 Hoo-Hoo believes that a tree saved from 

 fire equals a tree produced. 



The work of the Forest Service Labora- 

 tory at Madison, Wisconsin, is entitled to 

 the support of the entire industry, as its re- 

 search work is of great value to the lum- 

 ber users of the country, and Hoo-Hoo 

 unqualifiedly commends its work. 



ATTENTION, FORESTERS 



AMERICAN FORESTRY wiU print, free 

 of charge in this column, advertisements 

 of foresters wanting positions, or of per- 

 sons having employment to offer foresters. 

 This privilege is also extended to for- 

 esters, lumbermen and woodsmen, dis- 

 charged or about to be discharged from 

 military service, who want positions, or 

 of persons having emplosrment to offer 

 9uch foresters, lumbermen or woodsmen. 



POSITIONS WANTED 



POSITION wanted as Forester or Superintendent 

 on a private estate or otherwise, by a thor- 

 oughly practical, experienced, married man. 

 English. Competent to take charge of any for- 

 esters' post in every detail. Can undertake the 

 control of a saw mill; building roads, nursery 

 work, landscape planting, tree work, and hand- 

 ling help. Good references. Address Box 3040, 

 care AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, 

 Washington, D. C. U-3-22J 



FORESTER Experienced in cruising and gen- 

 eral woods work, also Aerial Photograph Inter- 

 pretation, would like position with Fulp or 

 Lumber Company. Address Box 3045, in care 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE. Wash- 

 ington, D. C. (1-3-22) 



VIARRIED MAN would like position as CITY 

 FORESTER or in charge of large private 

 estate. Any forestry position will be consid- 

 ered as a change in locality is desired. Have 

 had technical training and recently graduated 

 from one of the foremost forestry schools of the 

 country. Ex-service man, having spent three 

 years in the service. Address Box 3020, care 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY Magazine, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. (9-11-21) 



CITY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT AND FOR- 

 ESTER, thoroughly conversant with Southern 

 conditions, desires to change. Correspondence 

 invited. Address D, care AMERICAN FOR- 

 ESTRY Magazine, Washington, D. C. (MI-21) 



EX-SERVICE MAN; age 30; married; two and 

 one-half years in forestry college; experienced 

 in city forestry, nursery work, tree surgery, 

 dynamiting and in handling men; wishes po- 

 sition in city forestry or park department any 

 where in northeastern United States. Now em- 

 ployed. Address Box 3025, care AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Washington, D. C. 



(10-12-21) 



WINTER POSITION wanted with lumber com- 

 pany as time keeper or similar work. Gradu- 

 ate of high school and ranger course, 25 years 

 old, good references from previous employers. 

 Address Box 3030. care AMERICAN FOR- 

 ESTRY MAGAZINE, Washington, D. C. 



(10-12-21) 



FORESTER Graduate of Penn State, 28 years of 

 age, desires work in Forestry or allied lines. 

 Varied experience in Forestry and lumbering. 

 Served with 10th Engineers and with Wood 

 Supply Branch in France. Will consider any 

 outdoor work with a future. Address Box 3035, 

 care AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, 

 Washington, D. C (10-12-21) 



WANTED 



FORESTERS, UNEMPLOYED OR EMPLOYED, 

 having executive ability and posesssing 

 the gift to lead others, to write us. Great 

 opportunity for those that qualify. State age, 

 reference (2) if employed. School graduated 

 from (years). Confidential. Rangers also an- 

 swer this Address Box 66-66, AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Washington, D. C. 



CITY FORESTERS The Oklahoma Forestry As- 

 sociation, in order to assist cities and towns 

 in Oklahoma to procure men with technical 

 training and practical experience in city for- 

 estry work desires names of qualified men. 

 Please send name and address, giving age, 

 training and experience to the Secretary, THE 

 OKLAHOMA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, 

 Stil/water, Oklahoma. 



