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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



National Forest 

 Timber For Sale 



The Forest Service in- 

 vites investigation of an 

 opportunity for securing 

 raw material for a tannic 

 acid plant on or near the 

 Nantahala National For- 

 est, North Carolina. The 

 estimated volume of chest- 

 nut acidwood, which will be 

 advertised for sale on appli- 

 cation from a responsible 

 prospective bidder, is ap- 

 proximately 150,000 cords, 

 on the National Forest. 

 There is an additional 

 amount of approximately 

 200.000 cords on adjacent 

 private land. The total is 

 sufficient to supply an ex- 

 tract plant of efficient size 

 for 25 years. Favorable 

 topography will facilitate 

 logging. For detailed infor- 

 mation in regard to this 

 opportunity, including the 

 terms under which the 

 National Forest stumpage 

 will be advertised for sale 

 to the highest bidder, appli- 

 cation should be made to 

 the 



Forest Supervisor 



Franklin, North Carolina 



INDIAN FORESTER HERE 



MR. CHARLES GILBERT ROGERS, 

 F. C. H., F. L. S., C. I. E., who has 

 been in the Imperial Indian Forest Service 

 for thirty-two years, including seven years 

 as Professor at the Dehra Dun Forest 

 School and seven years as Chief Conserva- 

 tor in the Forests of Burma, is now spend- 

 ing from twelve to fifteen months in this 

 country, with a party of sixteen English 

 Engineers, preparatory to their work in 

 India. Their work will consist largely of 

 practical training in logging and sawmill 

 work and about wood-working operations. 

 All of these men have been trained as 

 mechanical or civil engineers in England 

 and all have been through the great World's 

 War, mostly in the Royal Engineers. They 

 have recently been appointed Forest En- 

 gineers to the Imperial Government of 

 India, to form a nucleus of a Forest En- 

 gineering Branch of the Indian Service, and 

 immediately after arrival in New York, 

 about the middle of April, they went to 

 several large skidder and cableway logging 

 operations in the Southern Appalachian 

 Mountains. A Forest Officer of Nigeria 

 has joined the party to study logging con- 

 ditions with a view to introducing Ameri- 

 can logging methods in Africa. 



Mr. Rogers was the first graduate of the 

 first English Forest School, established at 

 Coopers Hill, England. This was in 1887. 

 He was retired from the Imperial Indian 

 Forest Service in February 1920, but was 

 persuaded to take up this work especially 

 for the Indian Service, on account of his 

 thorough knowledge of conditions in India, 

 as well as his familiarity with American 

 conditions, having spent sometime in this 

 country in 1906. going through the principal 

 forest districts of this country and studying 

 the methods of both private and national 

 forestry. 



Mr. Rogers and his party of students 

 plan to spend sometime on the most impor- 

 tant logging operations in the Southern 

 Appalachian hardwood forests ; the South- 

 ern pineries : the Lake States ; the Inland 

 Empire ; the Douglas fir belt and the red- 

 wood and California pine sections. They 

 will also visit several of the Forest Schools 

 and the Madison Laboratory. 



TIMBER HELPS POOR LANDS 



r piMBER is essentially a poor land crop. 

 Steep slopes, poor soil, rocky land, un- 

 usual corners, gullied and wooded tracts 

 all these afford opportunities for growing 

 timber profitably, say specialists of the 

 Forest Service, United States Department 

 of Agriculture. A careful survey of the 

 average farm will reveal a surprising num- 

 ber of spots of this sort which can be util- 

 ized to advantage. If they do not already 

 have trees, planting them with the proper 

 varieties will materially increase the value 

 of the land. 



SOIL-BUILDING POWER OF TREES 

 Certain kinds of trees, like the locust and 

 the acacias, build up poor soil through the 

 nitrogen-gathering bacteria in the root 

 nodules, according to the Forest Sen 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 

 The soil-building power of trees on slopes 

 is a fact which the farmer should not over- 

 look. Steep lands, which have been cleared 

 of timber at much expense, after being cul- 

 tivated for a few years, often become gul- 

 lied, and the rich lands adjoining are 

 covered with deep deposits of sand. The 

 surest and cheapest method of protecting 

 such slopes is to maintain forests on them. 

 Small gullies can be stopped up by closely 

 packed brush and tree tops, anchored by 

 stakes if necessary. Large, open gullies 

 are checked successfully only by planting 

 over the entire gully basin, supplemented by 

 low brush dams across the larger unit 

 the gully. 



EMPIRE STATE FOREST PRODUCTS 

 ASSOCIATION 



PROFESSOR A. B. RECKNAGEL. Sec- 

 retary of the Empire State Forest 

 Products Association, in an address on 

 Forest Products Day at the New York 

 State College of Forestry, said : "The 

 object of any associated activity is the op- 

 portunity to do collectively what every 

 member seeks to do individually. Thus 

 the Empire State Forest Products Associa- 

 tion seeks to protect, perpetuate, and in- 

 crease the forest growth of the State. Its 

 appeal to the forest industries is that they 

 place themselves honestly and squarely on 

 a broad, public-spirited, comprehensive 

 policy which will result in the conservative 

 use of one of the Nation's fundamental re- 

 sources, the forest, and continued pros- 

 perity for the wood-using industries and 

 hence consumers of New York State. 



"Members of this Association control 

 nearly a million and a half acres of forest 

 land in the Adirondacks. They manufac- 

 ture yearly more than a hundred million 

 board feet of lumber, and over half a mil- 

 lion tons of paper. Such a membership 

 must adopt a rational, conservative forest 

 policy, which will result in the perpetuity 

 of their forest industries through wise use. 



"The Association is actively concerned 

 in the framing and passing of fair forest 

 taxation measures, co-operative fire pro- 

 tection, the development of water power, 

 and the formulation of a permanent timber 

 policy for the State and Nation. The New 

 York State College of Forestry co-operates 

 very effectively with the Association in 

 these matters, since its policy is to promote 

 the fullest use of the forest resources con- 

 sistent with their protection and develop- 

 ment. The people of New York State will 

 one day realize the sound economic basis 

 of the Association's slogan of 'Protect, In- 

 crease, and Restore.' " 



