STATE NEWS 



1367 



"Pin Oak, t inch caliper, 23 feet high" 



Westchester County, 



AMAWALK 

 NURSERY 



has thousands of 



MEMORIAL TREES 



Thousands of large sized 

 evergreen and deciduous 

 trees are growing in the 

 Amawalk Nursery. We can 

 supply hundreds of nursery- 

 grown, matched specimens 

 for memorial planting. Our 

 facilities for shipping by 

 truck or freight are unex- 

 celled. 



Send for Catalogue 

 Phone Yorktown 128 



Visit the Nursery 



AMAWALK 



"Norway Maple, 6 inch caliper, 27 feet high" 

 New York 



ing information as to the amount, kind, 

 quality and value of wood used, and the 

 amount and kind of products manufactured. 

 A special effort is being made to compare 

 the past with the probable future source of 

 supply. Ten years ago North Carolina fur- 

 nished ninety-six per cent of the wood 

 used in her industries ; it will be interest- 

 ing to see to what extent this has been 

 changed by the undoubted rapid reduction 

 in the amount and quality of timber avail- 

 able. 



Besides the several large summer schools, 

 covering six weeks study, in session at the 

 higher State institutions of learning, there 

 are being held this year for the first time 

 some forty-five schools of four weeks dura- 

 tion for teachers, under the joint control of 

 the State and County authorities. The at- 

 tendance and the work accomplished at 

 these local schools have been most en- 

 couraging. It is at these summer schools, 

 held usually at the county seats, as well as 

 at the Teachers' Institutes (two weeks 

 term), that the State Forester is lecturing. 

 With a lantern and a set of slides, he is 

 visiting the majority of the summer schools 

 in the Piedmont and eastern sections of the 

 State. The general topics are "conserva- 

 tion" and "forestry" as they apply especial- 

 ly to North Carolina conditions. An out- 

 line of the different forest types is given, 

 the uses of the forest touched upon not 

 only as to their products, but their value 



for recreation and for soil and water protec- 

 tion ; while forestry practice for this State is 

 illustrated and explained. Suggestions are 

 made to the teachers as to how they may 

 interest the children in the observation and 

 study of trees by excursions, school col- 

 lections, Arbor Day observance, etc. They 

 are urged to recommend the planting of 

 shade trees around schools and homes, the 

 reservation and planting of roadside trees 

 and the planting and dedication of Memo- 

 rial Trees. 



OREGON 



A T a recent meeting in Portland, Oregon, 

 of the trustees of the Western Forestry 

 and Conservation Association, plans were 

 ratified for reorganizing the scope and per- 

 sonnel of the association to cover far more 

 broadly than ever before both the western 

 protective work and the economic problems 

 confronting the entire industry. 



Favorable action was taken on a co-op- 

 erative plan proposed by the Oregon Forest 

 Fire Association, under which Col. C. S. 

 Chapman, manager of the latter, will take 

 charge of all the fire and similar local work 

 in the five states. The five-state association 

 will furnish him assistance to develop 

 technical fire fighting methods and law en- 

 f oi cement, also increased facilities for ed- 

 ucational work with industry and public on 

 protective matters. 

 Besides these increased activities in the 



Northwest, the Western Forestry and Con- 

 servation Association will engage more 

 constantly, both independently and in co- 

 operation with the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers Association and other lumber and 

 timber organizations, in working out larger 

 industrial questions and in getting recog- 

 nition of western needs from governmental 

 agencies. By being relieved of western fire 

 matters, E. T. Allen, who has spent much of 

 the past three years in Washingt6n, will 

 devote himself almost entirely to this work 

 in the east. Much of his earliest attention 

 will be given to relations between the lum- 

 ber industry and the Treasury Department 

 in working out the new revenue laws affect- 

 ing income and profits taxation. 



PENNSYLVANIA 

 "FORESTER Paul Mulford, in charge of 

 the Stone Forest and Asaph nursery re- 

 ports that he is raising seedlings in his nur- 

 sery from seed collected from white ash 

 frees which were set out in a plantation on 

 the Stone Forest in 1907. The trees bore 

 their first seed in 1914 and have been pro- 

 lific seeders each year since then, except in 

 1918 when a late frost killed the immature 

 seed. He also reports a heavy attack of 

 white pine weevil, especially on southern 

 exposures, and states that European larch 

 under an advance growth is making only 

 about one-fourth as great a height growth 

 as in the open. 



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