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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Southern Pine Association 



maintains a department of Cut-Over Land Utilization, which, with the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture and other agencies, is seeking to determine the best uses which can be made of 

 the cut-over lands in the Southern States. The logical division for the utilization of these 

 many millions of idle acres are 



1st AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT 

 2nd LIVE-STOCK RAISING 

 3rd REFORESTATION 



An informative and reliable book describing in full the opportunities afforded on the cut- 

 over pine lands of the South has been published, and is distributed free to all requesting it. 



SOUTHERN PINK ASSOCIATION 



NEW ORLEANS. LOUISIANA 



DR. SCHENCK WRITES FROM 

 GERMANY 

 /GORDON DORRANCE, of the Mary- 

 land State Forestry Department, has 

 received an interesting letter from Dr. C. 

 A. Schenck, former head of the Biltmore 

 Forest School at Asheville, North Carolina, 

 who is now in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. 

 Dr. Schenck, after fifteen years teaching 

 forestry in the United States, returned to 

 Germany shortly before the war. He was 

 badly wounded while serving on the Rus- 

 sian front, later saw service in Belgium 

 and was retired from active service in 1916. 



Dr. Schenck says : 



"As regards forestry in Germany, there 

 is little to be said about it. Prices for 

 forest products are intolerable ; building 

 impossible ; while the foresters continue to 

 consider forests as their own. We could, 

 without a doubt, obtain more of a liveli- 

 hood from them than we are doing, though 

 bread is more badly needed than is wood. 

 Meantime, there is but little over-cutting. 

 Fortunately, I dare say, for if the for- 

 ests are a nation's savings-box, the time 

 has surely come for Germany to empty it. 



"Graves' (the present chief forester's) 

 schemes for a wider application of Ameri- 

 can forestry have have interested me 

 greatly. I think your national forest re- 

 serves will flourish, more than I ever ex- 

 pected. What became of Pinchot? I long 

 for American papers and can get none 

 here. 



NATIONAL FOREST HIGHWAYS 



r PHE Secretary of Agriculture has ap- 

 proved the construction of the Grand 

 Canyon highway on the Kaibab National 

 Forest with a maximum expenditure of 

 federal funds of $50,000, provided co-opera- 

 tion could be secured from the county to 

 the extent of construction within the for- 

 est and maintenance of the road between 

 Kanab and the forest boundary. In Ne- 

 vada he has approved the construction of 

 the Currant Creek road with a maximum 

 expenditure of federal funds of $25,000 and 

 the Austin-Eureka road with a maximum 

 expenditure of federal funds of $18,000. 

 provided 50 per cent co-operation is se- 

 cured. In Utah he has approved the con- 

 struction of the Kane County section of 

 the Cedar-Long Valley road with a maxi- 

 mum expenditure of $35,000 and the con- 

 struction of the Salina-Emery road with 

 a maximum expenditure of federal funds 

 of $65,000 and the construction of the 

 Panguitch-Tropic road with a maximum 

 expenditure of federal funds of $30,000. 

 provided 50 per cent co-operation could be 

 secured on all the Utah projects. In Wyo- 

 ming he approved the expenditure of an 

 additional $50,000 on the Hoback Canyon 

 road provided that at least an additional 

 $20,000 could be secured in co-operation. 



SEEKING TURPENTINE IN THE 

 WEST 



The longleaf pine forests of the South 

 are becoming so rapidly depleted by heavy 

 cuttings of timber and destructive methods 

 of turpentining that many turpentine opera- 

 tors who have depended on this species for 

 naval stores are now turning their atten- 

 tion to the West as a possible source of: 

 such stores when their present stands of 

 timber are no longer productive. It is 

 quite possible that a method of turpentin- 

 ing similar to that carried on in the 

 Florida National Forest, under the super- 

 vision of the Forest Service, can readily 

 be used in the West. According to this 

 practice the largest flow possible without 

 injury to the trees is obtained by following 

 a number of slashings with several seasons 

 of rest. The cutting is done in such a way 

 as not to impair the timber value of the 

 trees. The promising results obtained by 

 the Forest Service in applying these con- 

 servation methods to long-leaf pine in 

 Florida led it, as early as 1911, to investi- 

 gate the extent to which western yellow 

 pine, so abundant in the United States, 

 could be utilized in meeting possible future 

 needs. Tests show that these trees can 

 be turpentined successfully and that a 

 satisfactory product can be obtained. 



