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the forest districts of that State. The fact 

 that millions of dollars worth of standing 

 timber and seedlings are annually destroyed 

 by flames lead this fire marshal to arrange 

 for a daily patrol of the regions imperil- 

 ed by fires by using the services of the 

 rural free delivery carriers. On their daily 

 trips if a fire is discovered, the carrier will 

 record on cards specially prepared for 

 the purpose the name of the county, time of 

 detection, location of flames, the name of 

 the official notified (usually the fire super- 

 visor) and any other pertinet particulars, 

 with the signature and number of route of 

 carrier. The supervisor, thereupon, organ- 

 izes suitable fire-fighting forces and un- 

 dertakes the extinction of the fire. The 

 plan has already been adopted for trial in 

 one country, and it is proposed to carry it 

 into other counties of the territory. 



NEW YORK 



A. B. Recknagel, secretary of the Empire 

 State Forest Products Association, in dis- 

 cussing the work of the New York State 

 Legislature in regard to forestry matters 

 said: 



"The New York legislative session of 

 1920 was, with respect to forestry legisla- 

 tion, largely one of 'hope deferred.' 



"There were before the legislature a 

 group of bills introduced by Assemblyman 

 Everett, which amended the present plan 

 of taxing forests by substituting a permis- 



sive yield tax (Assem. Print Nos. 513 and 

 2132) and which provided for free trees 

 from the State nurseries for private plant- 

 ing on land dedicated to continuous forest 

 production (Assem. Print No. 1913). 



"Of these, the last named, the so-called 

 'free tree bill,' became law with the gov- 

 ernor's signature on May 5. Of the former 

 one, amending the tax law (Pr. No. 513), 

 is in the governor's hands ; the other, 

 ing the conservation law, 'died' in the 

 Senate. One tax measure is of no value 

 without the other, so that it matters little 

 whether the governor signs the bill before 

 him or not. 



"There was also before the legislature 

 the so-called 'ten district foresters' bill 

 (Assembly Print No 1264) fathered by the 

 conservation commission. This bill 'died' 

 in the Senate. 



"There remains, as the one substantial 

 achievement of the session, the enactment 

 of the free tree bill, sponsored by the con- 

 servation commission and by the Empire 

 State Forest Products Association. The 

 text of this bill is as follows : 



" 'The commission may agree with the 

 owner of forest land, which is in need of 

 reforestation, to provide for the reforesta- 

 tion of such land under such safeguards as 

 the commission deems necessary to insure 

 the establishment and proper protection of 

 such a plantation, and may furnish trees 

 from any of the nurseries operated by such 



commission without charge at the nursery, 

 provided the owner of the land will agree 

 that the land shall be held for continuous 

 forest production, and that no trees so 

 planted shall be cut, except in accordance 

 with the regulations of the commission. 

 Such agreement shall be recorded in the 

 office of the county clerk of the county 

 where the land is situated, and the pro- 

 visions thereof shall be deemed to be and 

 be covenants running with the land.' " 



NORTH CAROLINA 



|" UMBER is certain to lose its present im- 

 portance in North Carolina and become 

 one of the minor industries if measures 

 for conserving present timber supplies 

 are not taken speedily, declared Assistant 

 Forester E. E. Carter, of the United 

 States Forest Service, in an address be- 

 fore the North Carolina Forestry Associa- 

 tion at Asheville, N. C, recently. Mr. 

 Carter discussed the results of an in- 

 vestigation of lumber conditions through- 

 out the United States which the Forest 

 Service made in response to a resolution 

 presented to the United States Senate by 

 Senator Capper. This resolution called for 

 a report on the timber supply of the coun- 

 try, the effects of present depletion on the 

 high cost of materials, and the effects of 

 lumber exports on domestic industries. 



Mr. Carter's address showed that unless 

 the young forests in North Carolina and 



