STATE NEWS 



119 



It is EASY 



to BLAST stumps 



Atlas Farm Powder is prepared especially for 

 the use of inexperienced farmers who wish to do 

 their own blasting. It is as easy to use as the 

 ordinary "gas" engine. Theodore Drake, 

 Prattsburg, N. Y. , writes regarding his first ex- 

 perience with it: 



"After reading your book. 'Better Farmins.' 1 am fully 



convincedofthe value of explosives for farm work. I blew 



out tome old apple tree stumps and smashed a rock with 



Atlas Farm Powder, though I had never shot any dynamite 



before." 



You, too, will be able to use Atlas Farm Powder 



successfully after you read the directions in 



"Better Farming with Atlas Farm Powder." 



It tells how to remove stumps, blast ditches, 



smash boulders, plant trees and increase yields 



by subsoiling. Write for this book. It is free. 



Atlas Powder Company 



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 Dealers everywhere Magazine near you 



PRINCESS TREE (PAULOWNIA) 



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Sow in flower pots. Trees $1.50. Each one 

 added $1.00. By Parcel Post. 



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In the U. S., io Lbs. or More 



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Soft Shells, io ,b-, $4-oo 



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Elgin Plantation 



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A GOOD 

 PROTECTION 



FORiRf&TO 



III! 



Your co-operation with your own magazine 

 will boost American Forestry to an exalted 

 position among advertising media. One way 

 to co-operate is to patronize our advertisers, 

 or ask for suggestions and advice. 



CALIFORNIA 



A DDED protection to California's fish 

 and game is assured by a cooperative 

 agreement just executed by Game Commis- 

 sioner Carl Westerfield, of the Fish and 

 Game Commission of California, and Dis- 

 trict Forester P. G. Redington, represent- 

 ing the Federal Forest Service. "Wild 

 life on the National Forests in California 

 is a resource which, besides being of great 

 economic value, adds materially to the en- 

 joyment of the Forests by the people of 

 the State," says Commissioner Westerfield 

 in commenting on the agreement. "Since 

 the Forest Service is entrusted with the 

 management of the National Forests, on 

 which both fish and game are plentiful, 

 and since the protection and perpetuation 

 of that fish and game is a duty delegated 

 to the Fish and Game Commission by the 

 State, I consider the cooperative agree- 

 ment a most happy one." 



Continuous airplane fire patrol of the 

 Angeles National Forest between May 1 

 and October 31, with a minimum of two 

 planes in daily operation, is urged by the 

 Southern California Section of the Sierra 

 Club in a resolution recently forwarded 

 to Chief Forester H. S. Graves at Wash- 

 ington. 



The loss by forest fires of thousands of 

 acres of timber and brush within Los 

 Angeles County, a loss which is Inesti- 

 mable when the vast watershed is con- 

 sidered, might well have been averted if 

 complete and modern methods of patrol 

 were installed, according to Sierra Club 

 officials. 



More than 11,000 acres of timber land 

 in the vicinity of Mount Shasta and Lake 

 Tahoe belonging to the Southern Pacific 

 Company was swept' by forest fires during 

 the past summer, according to a report 

 issued by the Forest Service. 



"It is true that this figure is less than 

 one per cent of the one and one-quarter 

 million acres of Company land which the 

 Forest Service is protecting under co- 

 operative agreement," said District For- 

 ester Redington in commenting on the re- 

 port, "but this does not mean that the 

 fires and there were over 200 of them 

 did no damage. The contrary is true, for 

 besides killing mature timber and marring 

 for years some of California's most popu- 

 lar vacation grounds, they destroyed the 

 greater part of the young growth on more 

 than 11,000 acres of purely timber land. 



With the public in California becoming 

 more and more interested in forestry prob- 

 lems the California State Board of For- 

 estry has outlined a plan seeking to direct 

 awakening public interest along lines that 

 will bring the quickest and best results. 

 The plan definitely adopted is in line 



