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is requested to establish. Forest officers will 

 be stationed at each base, sub-base and 

 landing field to act with the air service 

 and tie up the work so there will be no 

 lost motion or lack of efficiency. The 

 committee points out that the area to be 

 patrolled embraces one-half the merchant- 

 able standing timber in the United States. 

 It also embraces some 80 million acres of 

 government owned timber and probably 

 from the standpoint of value 80 per cent 

 of all government owned timber outside 

 Alaska. Protection agencies feel that air 

 patrol gives promise of being one of the 

 greatest factors in solving the fire prob- 

 lem. They likewise believe that the op- 

 portunity given to train pilots and 

 observers while these officers are perform- 

 ing useful service in conserving govern- 

 ment property should insure favorable ac- 

 tion by the War Department in the estab- 

 lishment of the patrol as requested. 



OHIO 



"/""ATALPA trees should not be planted 

 in northern Iowa," says G. B. Mc- 

 Donald, of the forestry department of Iowa 

 State College, in response to many in- 

 quiries about the planting of this tree to se- 

 cure material for fence posts. 



Nine out of every ten catalpa groves in 

 northern Iowa fail as do also the osage 

 orange groves. The winters are too se- 

 vere and these trees are easily killed. 

 There are some successful catalpa groves 

 in southern Iowa, but not many. Cotton- 

 wood grows quicker and does well on over- 

 flow and waste land. In five to seven years 

 a good many fence posts can be secured 

 from a cottonwood grove. These posts, 

 however, must be treated with a suitable 

 preservative. One-sixth of an acre of cot- 

 tonwoods planted each year will furnish 

 200 good fence posts annually. 



PENNSYLVANIA 

 TJON. Robert. S. Conklin, Commissioner 

 of Forestry, states that 150 bush- 

 els of Black Walnuts were planted this fall 

 in the Mont Alto nursery in Franklin 

 County. The seed was good in quality and 

 should produce one hundred thousand 



seedlings which will be available for 

 planting next year. Most of the trees will 

 be distributed to private planters through- 

 out the state, who are anxious to start 

 groves of this valuable tree, the wood of 

 which was in such great demand during 

 the war. 



of Forestry for planting anywhere within 

 the state. The only charge which the ap- 

 plicants must satisfy is the cost of pack- 

 ing and shipping which is usually less 

 than 50 cents per tnousand trees. From 

 500 to 2,500 trees should be planted per 

 acre. Two men can plant one thousand 

 trees per day. 



Millions of thrifty and valuable chest- 

 nut trees have been killed in Pennsylvania 

 during the past ten years by the chestnut 

 blight, which was imported from China. 

 It has done already an enormous amount 

 of damage and unfortunately no satisfac- 

 tory preventive measure of control is yet 

 known. In many regions where this tree 

 once prevailed only a few subnormal liv- 

 ing specimens remain. Commissioner 

 Conklin recommends the immediate dispo- 

 sal of all dead and dying chestnut trees, 

 and the restocking of such areas by plant- 

 ing valuable forest trees. 



The most promising development of the 

 past year in the field of reforestation is 

 the interest mining companies are taking 

 in forest tree planting. Fourteen different 

 companies already have committed them- 

 selves to the practice. During the past 

 four years mining companies have planted 

 over 450 thousand trees, of which num- 

 ber 250 thousand were set out during 1919. 



Pennsylvania stands in front of all 

 other states in the development of the 

 state-owned forest land and in the degree 

 to which it co-operates with private 

 owners in the care and development of 

 their forest land. The growth of forest 

 tree planting by private owners of wood- 

 land has been phenomenal. The work was 

 first undertaken in 1910, and its wonder- 

 ful growth is shown in the following table 

 of the number of trees planted each year : 

 1910, 66,374; 1911, 25,360; 1912, 66,854; 1913, 

 47,770; 1914, 108,685; 1915, 115,577; 1916, 

 1,471,875; 1917, 1,812,997; 1918, 2,186,899; 

 1919, 3,038,085. 



Coal companies are beginning to see the 

 value of reforestation. They are ex- 

 periencing great difficulty in procuring 

 suitable mine timber at a reasonable cost, 

 and they realize that it is now possible 

 to grow timber of usuable size on their 

 own holdings, at present almost entirely 

 unproductive, long before the supply of 

 their mines will be exhausted. Commis- 

 sioner Conklin predicts that mining com- 

 panies will plant at least five hundred thou- 

 sand trees during 1920, and announces that 

 the Department of Forestry is co-operat- 

 ing with them by supplying the planting 

 stock, and giving technical advice free of 

 charge. 



