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TEXAS 

 /~|N November 14 the Texas Forestry 

 Association held its fifth annual meet- 

 ing at the Chamber of Commerce in Dal- 

 las, and it was the most successful meet- 

 ing the Association has had. For the 

 benefit of Association members the pro- 

 ceedings of the meeting will be reviewed 

 in the "Texas Forest News." Arrange- 

 ments are being made to print the full 

 proceedings of the meeting in circular form 

 for distribution to Association members, 

 legislators, and other interested Texas 

 citizens. 



Mr. Tom Finty, Jr., of the Dallas Even- 

 ing Journal, gave the opening address. 

 Mr. Finty expressed the belief that the peo- 

 ple of Texas are being impressed more 

 than perhaps we realize by the work of 

 the Forestry Association. President Jones 

 made his annual report, reviewing briefly 

 the progress made since the last meeting, 

 and expressing confidence in the future 

 development of forestry work in Texas. 



Following the papers there were three 

 resolutions passed : 



1. A resolution advocating the teaching of 

 Forestry in the Schools of Texas. 



2. A resolution approving Colonel 

 Graves' plan providing for a national for- 

 est policy as a basis upon which to con- 

 struct a suitable forest policy for Texas. 



3. A resolution endorsing the work and 

 plans of the State Forester, and pledging 

 the support of the Association to the State 

 Forester's policy. 



VERMONT 



'"PHE practice of rational forest manage- 

 ment on a large tract of timberland in 

 Vermont has been initiated, not by the 

 Federal or State government, but by Mid- 

 dlebury College on the Battell Forest, its 

 30,000 acre tract of forest land in the 

 Green Mountains. The timber on this 

 tract consists, for the most part, of a 

 mixed stand of old growth spruce and 

 hardwods chiefly yellow birch, beech and 

 maple grading into pure spruce on the 

 upper slopes. 



In the first sale of timber that has been 

 made under the management of E. I. 

 Terry, the forest manager, the operator ha? 

 agreed to dispose of the slash by lopping 

 tops of both spruce and hardwood. In all 

 future sales the tress to be cut will first 

 be marked by the forest manager and the 

 slash disposed of. Old and decadent 

 trees, even though of little or no value for 

 lumber, will be cut in order to make room 

 for thrifty young growth, and all cut over 

 aicas will be promptly restocked with 

 spruce, either by natural seeding or plant- 

 ing. 



A forest survey, which will include the 

 mapping and estimating of the entire for- 

 est, has just been completed. 



"The best way to dispose of hardwood 

 slash," says Mr. Terry, "is to work up the 

 limberwood and all parts of the trunk un- 

 fit for saw-logs into cordwood, wherever 

 a market renders such disposal possible. 



This is now the case on many parts of the 

 Battell Forest. If there is no market for 

 cordwood, the branches must be lopped so 

 that they will lie close to the ground and 

 soon decay. The best way to dispose of 

 spruce slash is to pile the branches and 

 burn the piles when the ground is covered 

 with snow." 



WASHINGTON 



"1919 one of the most disastrous years 

 in the point of forest losses the North 

 Idaho Forestry Protective Association 

 has ever experienced," announces W. D. 

 Humiston, of Potlatch, Idaho. "The actual 

 destruction of timber was not so great as 

 1910, but the area burned over was larger 

 and the cost was greater this year. The 

 worst years previous were 1910 and 1914, 

 but the estimate is one and a half more 

 than in 1910." An expenditure of approxi- 

 mately $116,000 for fire fighting was re- 

 ported by the Pend Oreille Timber Pro- 

 tective Association for 1919, according to 

 the statement of T. L. Greer, secretary- 

 treasurer of the association, at the regular 

 monthly meeting of the North Idaho For- 

 estry Protective Association at Spokane. 



The Potlatch Timber Protective Asso- 

 ciation reports a financial loss by fire of 

 $22,153 during 1919. This includes 66 fires 

 and covered an area of 1,211,150 acres. 



The total number of fires in the terri- 

 tory of the Clearwater Timber Protective 

 Association was 74, entailing a cost of 

 $22,164 for fire fighting for the year. The 

 season's total expenses were $46,603. The 

 timber loss for the territory was 3,635,000 

 feet. 



The total net receipts for the National 

 Forests in Montana during the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1919, were $380,171, accord- 

 ing to figures announced from the forestry 

 headquarters. Twenty per cent will be paid 

 to the state for schools and roads in the 

 counties in which the forests are situated. 

 In addition, 10 per cent will be spent on 

 road and trail construction within the for- 

 ests themselves. 



BOMBS IMPRACTICAL FOR FIGHT- 

 ING FOREST FIRES 



Ingenious, imaginative persons have 

 recently proposed as a method of fighting 

 forest fires that gas bombs be dropped 

 from airplanes. Officials of the Forest 

 Service say that this suggestion is en- 

 tirely impractical. There is no analogy 

 between the suggested method and the use 

 of poison gas bombs in fighting, because a 

 fire can not be "poisoned" but must be 

 smothered. Although one part of a poison 

 gas to one million parts of air might be 

 sufficient to kill soldiers, yet 750,000 parts 

 of inert gas to a million parts of air 

 probably would not suffice to put out a 

 fire. 



The only kind of gas which will assist 

 in stopping a fire, forest officials declare, 

 is an inert gas that will neither burn nor 

 support combustion, such as nitrogen or 

 carbon dioxide. 



FORESTERS ATTENTION 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will gladly print free 

 of charge in this column advertisements of for- 

 esters, lumbermen and woodsmen, discharged or 

 about to be discharged from military service, who 

 want positions, or of persons having employment 

 to offer such foresters, lumbermen or woodsmen. 



POSITION wanted by technically trained For- 

 ester. Have had fourteen years experience 

 along forestry lines, over five years on the 

 National Forests in timber sale, silvicultural 

 and administrative work; three years experi- 

 ence in city forestry, tree surgery and landscape 

 work. Forester for the North Shore Park Dis- 

 trict of Chicago. City forestry and landscape 

 work preferred, but will be glad to consider 

 other lines. Can furnish the best of reference- 

 Address Box 600, Care American Forestry 

 Magazine, Washington, D. C. (1-3) 



YOUNG MAN recently discharged from the U. S. 

 Navy, wants employment with wholesale lum- 

 ber manufacturer; college graduate; five year's 

 experience in nursery business; can furnish 

 best of references. Address Box 675, Care 

 American Forestry Magazine, Washington, 

 D. C. d-3) 



Man to be discharged trom tne Army September 

 30th desires position in forestry work, with lum- 

 ber or railroad company or assisting in investi- 

 gations of utilization of wood products. Would 

 accept position in other work. Is married man, 

 graduate of Michigan Agricultural College, 1913. 

 Has had experience in orchard _ work, clearing 

 land, improvement cuttings, planting and care of 

 nursery, pine and hardwood transplants, orchards 

 and larger trees, grading and construction of 

 gravel roads, and other improvement work. Has 

 executive ability and gets good results from men. 

 Please address Box 860, care of American 

 Forestry Magazine, Washington, D. C. (9-11) 



ARBORICULTURIST is open to an engagement 

 to take charge of, or as assistant in City For- 

 estry work. Experience and training, ten years, 

 covering the entire arboricultural field from 

 planting to expert tree surgery including nur- 

 sery practice, and supervision in the care and 

 detailed management of city shade trees. For 

 further information, address Box 700, care of 

 American Forestry. 



WANTED Position as Forester and Land Agent. 

 Technically trained forester, 35 years old. 

 Practical experience along all lines included 

 under the duties of the above positions. For- 

 mer Captain, Field Artillery. Address Box 840, 

 care American Forestry, Washington, D. C. 



WANTED Position with Lumber Company or 

 Private Concern by technically trained Forester 

 with five years practical experience. Box 820, 

 care American Forestry. 



A FORESTRY graduate with several years ex- 

 perience in forest work and at present em- 

 ployed along technical and administrative 

 lines desires responsible position with private 

 concern operating in and outside the United 

 States. Address Box 870, care of American 

 Forestry Magazine, Washington, D. C. 





A GOOD 

 PROTECTION 



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