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COWS PREVENT MAPLE REPRODUCTION 



The effect of permitting cows to graze on this character of land is evi- 

 dent. Maple reproduction has been prevented. 



To summarize the results of the six years' work it may 

 be said that about three-quarters of the woodland has 

 been improved and 200 acres of nearly worthless land 

 have been reforested, and thereby made productive. When 

 the provisions of the present working plan are completed, 

 a revised plan will be made for another ten-year period. 

 The financial summary for the first six years is as follows : 



Cost of cutting $1 ,35?.7r> 



Cost of planting 2,282.42 



Expert assistance 103.70 



Total cost of operations $3,743.93 



Total receipts 3,239.54 



Net cost of all improvements $504.39 



Yield tables are not available to estimate the future 

 value of the hardwood forest, but it is safe to estimate 

 that it will be worth considerably more in twenty years 

 than it would have been, had it been left to itself, and 

 the revenue has been used to reduce the carrying charges 

 on the plantations. 



It is safe to estimate that the plantations when forty 

 years old will be worth $250 an acre. Considerably 

 higher prices have been paid for pine plantations of this 

 age. Two hundred acres at this price will be worth 

 $50,000. An investment of $504 for forty years at 5 

 per cent amounts to $3,548. Leaving taxes out of con- 

 sideration, therefore, the profit on the operations thus far 

 undertaken should be about $46,000, over and above 5 

 per cent compound interest on the investment. 



FIRE WARDEN'S MEETING 



THE Fire Wardens of Monroe County, Pa., held 

 their third annual meeting at Pocono Manor re- 

 cently on invitation of Edwin A. Hoopes, presi- 

 dent of the Pocono Protective Fire Association. The 

 State Department of Forestry was represented by Chief 

 Forest Fire Warden George H. Wirt and District For- 

 ester John L. Strobeck. These annual meetings are 

 regarded by the Department of Forestry as very impor- 

 tant aids to an effective fire service. They bring the 

 men together in a social way that develops comradeship, 

 and, besides, they furnish opportunity for instruction 

 in the duties of fire wardens. The idea of an annual 

 meeting and dinner originated with the Pocono Protective 

 Fire Association. Its results have been found to be so 

 satisfactory that wardens' annual meetings are now re- 

 quired by the department in each Pennsylvania county 

 where forest fire service under the new law has been 

 organized. 



WHAT SAWMILLS WASTE 



THE waste product of sawmills in the United 

 States including that fed to the furnaces as fuel 

 is estimated to be 36,000,000 cords per year, and 

 the equivalent of 2,880,000,000 cubic feet of solid wood 

 substance. About half of it has no use whatever, but is 

 usually burned to get rid of it. 



NO COWS ALLOWED HERE 



I'rom this orchard the cows have been excluded and as a result there 

 is a vigorous reproduction of maple. 



DRYING LONGLEAF PINE 



IMPORTANT laboratory experiments at the Federal 

 Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., are be- 

 ing followed by practical commercial experimenting 

 in the Louisiana field, by members of the federal staff, on 

 the saving of time in drying long-leaf pine. No report 

 can be made on these experiments as yet, but it is under- 

 stood that the experimenters demonstrated a commercial 

 saving of about 20 per cent in the new method of drying 

 the southern pine. As successful in the laboratory, the 

 time of drying is cut from forty-eight hours, the old time, 

 to thirty-nine hours, about 20 per cent, meaning that 

 much saving in the operation of the kilns. Following the 

 laboratory experiments, the experimenters are now try- 

 ing out the new method commercially for the Tremont 

 Lumber Company, at Winfield, Louisiana. 



