IMPROVE WOODLANDS 

 I" ACK of proper thinning and cutting is 

 a common cause of woodlands being un- 

 profitable, according to a recent bulletin 

 entitled, "Making Woodlands Profitable 

 in the Southern States," issued by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 

 Nature usually overcrowds trees in a given 

 space, says this publication, and so steps 

 should be taken to give them sufficient light 

 and soil moisture to thrive and become 

 profitable. 



By properly controlling the number of 

 trees on a tract it is possible to increase 

 their rate of growth and eventually their 

 size. Except for the production of cord- 

 wood, a few large trees on a given area are 

 usually more desirable than many small 

 ones. If possible, valuable kinds of wood 

 should be grown in preference to common 

 woods, which bring lower prices. Wood- 

 lands in this country, as a rule, contain 

 many crooked, forked, and diseased trees, 

 which should be replaced by straight, sound 

 ones. Soon after a cutting trees show an 

 increased growth and the whole woodland 

 rapidly increase in value by the elimina- 

 tion of inferior trees. 



With an active market for cordwood and 

 for fence posts, poles, and lumber there is 

 every inducement to clear out the inferior 

 trees diseased, dying, crooked, and less 

 valuable kinds. Right cutting also includes 

 the removal of large, sound trees whose 

 growth is slow, because they are nearing 

 or have reached maturity. The cutting 

 lid be done only at a time of favorable 

 market conditions or when building or 

 other timber is needed on the farm. Copies 

 of this bulletin may be had by addressing 

 the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Washington, D. C. 



PAPER PULP FROM SEAWEED 

 'T'HAT the manufacure of paper pulp 

 from seaweed is proving a profitable 

 undertaking in Japan seems evidenced by 

 the fact," says the U. S. Consul in that 

 country, as reported by the Bureau of For- 

 eign and Domestic Commerce, "that the 

 only company manufacturing this pulp is 

 building another factory. This concern 

 was organized in December, 1919, and is 

 producing, by a secret process, about 50 

 of pulp daily, which is largely used 

 in the composition of cigarette paper. The 

 new plant, when completed, will have a 

 daily capacity of 150 tons of pulp. The 

 present price is about five cents a pound." 



pIMBER sufficient to build 2,750 new 

 five room houses was destroyed by 

 fires on the National Forests in California 

 last season. Fifty-five million feet of 

 California's available timber supply, worth 

 more than $1.'5'{,000 on the stump, went up 

 in smoke within a few short months. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



MEMORIAL TREES FOR TRENTON 

 TN keeping with the movement of the 

 American Forestry Association for the 

 planting of trees in memory of fallen heroes 

 of the Great World War, members of Com- 

 pany C, 104th Engineers, are planning a 

 memorial planting in Stacy Park, Trenton. 

 A tablet is to be erected in the center of 

 six oak trees, to be planted to mark the 

 memory of the six Trenton members of the 

 organization who were killed in action. 



Another planting of 180 oak trees along 

 the Lincoln Highway is also arranged for, 

 to perpetuate the memory of the 180 sol- 

 diers of Trenton and Mercer County who 

 died in the war. 



The suggestion of the Association has 

 met with favor in other parts of the State, 

 and the number of memorial trees will be 

 greatly increased this spring. 



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A NOVEL IDEA IN TREE SURGERY 

 CO far as I know, the practice of tree 

 surgery by dynamite is not yet usual, 

 writes M. L. Adams, of Virginia. Hesays : 

 My experience along this line may, there- 

 fore, be of interest. When we came to 

 settle on this old farm, we found that the 

 handsomest tree on the place was a great 

 sycamore overhanging the spring. A fine, 

 healthy growth of branches and leaves ex- 

 tended about three-quarters of the way 

 up the trunk, but from that point the top 

 was entirely dead, just bare bole and 

 leafless boughs. We were not tree ex- 

 perts but we saw that top must go. To 

 saw it off at such a height was manifestly 

 impossible; well then, we would blow it off. 

 A good climber went up until he found 

 the hollow which marked the beginning of 

 the decay. A small charge was placed, the 

 long fuse touched off. With the first 

 "boom," half of the head toppled and fell 

 to the ground. Two other charges com- 

 pleted the work. 



"Take No Chances 

 With Camp Fires 

 Put Them Out." 



PATRONIZE 

 OUR ADVERTISERS 



TIMBER RESOURCES OF FRANCE 



TJF7HEN the lumber industry is organized 

 in France's Colonial possessions, 

 France will have an unlimited supply of 

 timber of all grades available, says the 

 Fortnightly Survey of French Economic 

 Conditions, published by the French Com- 

 mission in New York City. One million 

 cubic meters of timber are cut every year 

 in these colonies, continues this authority, 

 this being equal to 424,000,000 board feet. 

 Going into effect April 1, 1920, an export 

 embargo has been placed in France upon 

 certain wood products, including stavewood, 

 logs one meter 10 centimeters or less in 

 length, and also bush and fire wood, except 

 under special license from the Ministry 

 of Finance. 



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