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I need a copy of Forestry and Irrigation for 

 March, 1904. Will anyone who can furnish a 

 copy please write me promptly? I should also 

 like to hear from anyone who can supply copies 

 of The Forester, bound or unbound, before De- 

 cember, 1900. I have quite a number of dupli- 

 cates of Forestry and Irrigation, Conservation 

 and American Forestry, the oldest being Decem- 

 ber, 1902, and should like to get in touch with 

 anyone wishing to complete their files. 

 GORDON PARKER, Colorado Springs, Colo. 



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House contains bath, town water, electric 

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High location desirable for either summer 

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 Fine automobile road all the way to the city 



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 Address Box 1000, care of AMERICAN 

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of the prevention of forest fires to give 

 talks before school children and public 

 audiences on the necessity of care with 

 fire in the woods. As a result of the 

 Governor's proclamations, the forest serv- 

 ice took a part in the campaign to have 

 forest fire prevention taught in all the 

 public schools on arbor day. Many -forest 

 rangers gave talks to school children, both 

 on tree planting and on fire prevention. 



NEW YORK 

 TJ IGHER prices than have ever before 

 been known for forest products, with 

 a shortage of raw material, and the 

 disappearance from the State of many of 

 its wood-using industries are shown by 

 the wood-using survey of New York State 

 being brought to a close by The New 

 York State College of Forestry at Syra- 

 cuse and the United States Forest Service, 

 working in co-operation. The preliminary 

 work has been completed and two men have 

 been sent into the field to clear up the last 

 details of the survey. Raymond J. Hoyle 

 is representing the State College of For- 

 estry in the field work, while R. V. Rey- 

 nolds of Washington is the federal repre- 

 sentative in the State. The results of this 

 survey will be compiled and published, in 

 such form as to keep individual reports 

 confidential, but it can be said even now 

 that the report will show a dangerous loss 

 to the State of its wood-using industries. 

 The wood utilization service, handled by 

 Prof. E. F. McCarthy, who is also in charge 

 of the wood-using survey for the College, 

 corroborates the showing of the industries 

 survey, in that it indicates a great demand 

 for lumber products in the State, with a 

 great shortage of material. A single offer- 

 ing of lumber through this co-operative 

 marketing service brought 27 replies, and 

 shows conclusively that the farmers wood- 

 lot today is in a position to prove its 

 worth, and to become a definite income pro- 

 ducer with proper handling, both as to 

 growing timber and to proper marketing of 

 the tree ready for felling. 



NORTH CAROLINA 

 J. S. Holmes, State Forester of North 

 Carolina, in distributing an article en- 

 titled "Our Future Hardwood Supply," 

 says: 



"We in North Carolina have at least 

 come to the point where the lumbermen, 

 the lumber users, and the general public 

 are pretty much agreed that something 

 must be done if our forest industries are 

 to be carried on longer than the next ten 

 or fifteen years. A recent questionnaire 

 filled out by a large number of the furni- 

 ture and other wood-using industries of 

 the State emphasizes the point that our 

 own supply of timber is becoming ex- 

 hausted. In other States, the same thing 

 is happening, so that the only sensible 

 thing to do is to look the issue squarely 

 in the face and plan to raise our own tim- 

 ber in our own region. 



PENNSYLVANIA 



/GOVERNOR Sproul of Pennsylvania, re- 

 cently made an appeal by personal 

 letter to 2,600 representatives of corpora- 

 tions and organizations to aid in the res- 

 toration of Pennsylvania's forests by the 

 prevention of forest fires. The governor's 

 appeal is a part of the fire prevention 

 campaign which Chief Forester Gifford 

 Pinchot has started to check the annual 

 damage done to State forests by spring 

 fires. 



Chief Forester Pinchot refers to the 

 "desert" created b forest fires equal in 

 area to one-sixth of the total area of 

 the State and shows that "the State lias 

 appropriated for forest fire protection dur- 

 ing the last six years less than $30,000 

 per year, or not a quarter of a cent per 

 acre, in an effective effort to stop this 

 gigantic loss." He compares this "like 

 trying to put out a burning building with 

 water in a spoon." 



"If our forest lands," say the Pinchot 

 statement, "had been wisely handled, they 

 would be growing each year as much tim- 

 ber as they produced in the year of their 

 greatest yield, and that timber would be 

 available at half the present prices. And 

 the difference is only part of what we 

 pay for our forest devastation. We pay 

 at least $25,000,000 a year for freight on 

 lumber brought into the State which might 

 have grown at home. We pay at least 

 $50,000,000 more for the lumber itself. 

 Then there is the loss from the closiiu 

 removal of the wood-working industries, 

 the loss from floods, the loss to farmers 

 and the business men, the loss of fish and 

 game and many other losses. 



"There is small comfort for us beyond 

 our own boundaries. As a nation, we 

 cut iy 2 times as much as we grow. Our 

 needs are increasing. Our domestic sup- 

 plies are dwindling, and there are no for- 

 ests in the world from which we can im- 

 port lumber enough of suitable kinds at 

 suitable prices to meet our needs. Under 

 these conditions a national timber short- 

 age was inevitable. As the prices of 

 paper and lumber show, it is here already 

 and is growing steadily worse. 



"For all these reasons it would be sound 

 business and wise foresight for us to pro 

 tect from fire, restore to production and as 

 it were, annex once more to the State the 

 wasted forest lands of our commonwealth. 

 These lands might be and should be pour- 

 ing out a flood of valuable products, saving 

 us from a vast and needless expense and 

 securing us against the certainty of suf- 

 fering from the national timber famine 

 which is now clearly in sight. Fire stani 

 in the way." 



