300,000 TREES PLANTED IN NEW YORK 



FIFTEEN miles northeast of the village of Lacona, 

 New York, farms once prosperous are going back 

 into forest land, because they are not sufficiently 

 fertile to warrant cultivation for food crops in these 

 days of intensive cultivation of the soil. These farms 

 were near the location of an old saw mill, on the old 

 high road, built in the war of 1812, for the carrying of 

 a cable on an air line across the country from Rome, 

 New York, to Sacketts Harbor, for Perry's ships. Now 

 the country is reverting to forest, and the work is being 

 handled on a big scale by the Blount Lumber Company 

 of Lacona, 

 which has 

 planted 500,000 

 trees in this 

 region, in co- 

 operation with 

 the New York 

 State College 

 of Forestry at 

 Syracuse, 

 which each 

 year sends out 

 i t s freshmen 

 for practical 

 tree planting 

 experience. 



The Lacona 

 plantation this 

 year was a 

 task in which 

 35,000 trees 

 were planted 

 in a week by 

 a party of 

 twenty-one freshmen from the Forestry College, many 

 of the trees being pine, but many also being spruce, for 

 the building up of a new spruce forest for the paper in- 

 dustry's consumption in years to come. 



The freshmen in addition to the commissary staff, 

 were organized in three groups of seven each, and one 

 of these seven was elected each day, as leader for the 

 day. The other six were divided into mattock men and 

 setters, and the work proceeded at such a rate that over 

 1.000 trees were averaged by each pair of workers. 



MAKING THE BARREN LAND WORK 



Freshmen at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse learn practical tree planting by real 

 reforestation work at Lacona, New York. 



The Lacona planting, however, was not the only such 

 planting. At Cooperstown, the Forest of the Dozen Dads, 

 a story unique in forestry activities, was planted by an- 

 other group of planters. There a dozen fathers for 

 the company requires that each member be the father 

 of a child of under 10 years, planted an abandoned farm, 

 and will turn it back to forest land, the growth from 

 which will provide an investment or endowment insur- 

 ance for these children when they reach maturity. 



Other big plantings have been taken up this year by 

 the College of Forestry, an interesting compilation being 



the following 

 record of 

 planting done 

 o r consulted 

 upon the past 

 spring by the 

 New York 

 State College 

 o f Forestry 

 alone. In ad- 

 dition to this 

 work the State 

 Conservat i o n 

 Commi s s i o n 

 planted literal- 

 ly millions of 

 trees upon state 

 land, but the 

 State Forestry 

 College has 

 been working 

 upon the belief 

 that the private 

 owners must be 

 converted to a policy of reforesting their idle land 

 also. This table of plantings follows: 



Malone public forest, owned by the city 45,000 trees 



Streeter Lake (paper mill company) 60,000 " 



State Ranger School, Wanakena 50,000 



Watertown Public Schools 10,000 " 



Otsego County (14 separate tracts, including 



Dozen Dads) 48,000 " 



Lacona '..... 35,000 " 



Syracuse City (college land) 18,000 " 



Newburgh Public Schools 5,000 " 



Herkimer County (small separate plantings) 20,000 



Total 291,000 trees 



NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY CONFERENCE 



AT New London village, overlooking Sunapee Lake, New Hampshire, August 24 to 26, an important meeting of for- 

 J -*- esters, lumbermen and papermen and their guests will be held. The meeting is under the auspices of the Society for 

 the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and is being organized and directed by Philip W. Ayres, Forester for that 

 Society. Among the speakers are Charles Lathrop Pack, President of the American Forestry Association, who will make 

 an address on the national forest policy at the first evening session; George W. Sisson, Jr., President of the American 

 Paper and Pulp Association ; R. S. Kellogg, Secretary of the National News Print Service Bureau ; Ellwood Wilson. Presi- 

 dent of the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers, and several others from Canada who will cover fully and frankly the 

 Canadian situation; E. A. Sherman, Associate United States Forester; Prof. J. W. Tourney, Director of the Yale Forest 

 School; W. R. Brown, of the Berlin Mills Company, and Hugh P. Baker, Secretary of the American Paper and Pulp 

 Association. 



