STATE NEWS 



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per year. The loss of seedlings in the nur- 

 sery from all causes, including the white 

 grub, grass-hoppers, damping-off, heaving, 

 frost, and drought is less than one per cent 

 yearly. 



In the plantations, however, such excel- 

 lent results are not obtained. Examina- 

 tions of the plantations indicate that of the 

 white pine two and three year old seedlings 

 planted, about sixty per cent survive. Jack 

 pine does better, although it is planted on 

 the poorer soils and is but one year old 

 when set, for it is found that fully sixty- 

 five per cent of the tiny trees survive. 

 Scotch pine is nearly as hardy as the jack 

 pine, but Norway pine, apparently due 

 principally to frost killing, shows but barely 

 fifty per cent survivals. 



These mortality figures are not discour- 

 aging to the Public Domain Commission. 

 Each year it learns more about the types 

 of soil and the requirement of the seed- 

 lings, higher percentages of survivals are 

 obtained. Indeed, of the two million seed- 

 lings which were planted this spring, de- 

 spite the severe droughts and frosts of this 

 summer, fully eighty-five per cent have 

 survived, and it is expected that seventy- 

 five per cent of these will be firmly estab- 

 lished in 1925. Since the commission plants 

 from 1,500 to 2,000 trees per acre, despite 

 the losses, good stands will be obtained. 



NEW JERSEY 



TOURING the past summer State For- 

 ester Alfred Gaskill, of the New Jer- 

 sey Department of Conservation and De- 

 velopment, published a leaflet, which was 

 widely announced through the press, mak- 

 ing known the desirability and many ad- 

 vantages of the State forests and parks for 

 outdoor recreation, and extending an invi- 

 tation to the public to use them in this way. 



This policy has met with such success, 

 as evidenced by the numerous inquiries 

 and applications for camp sites, that the 

 Department's proposal to create a forty 

 thousand acre State Forest Park along the 

 Kittatinny Mountain in Sussex county 

 seems assured of public approval. 



New Jersey is most centrally situated 

 with respect to population, over ten mil- 

 lion people living within a radius of sixty 

 miles of the capitol at Trenton. 



An enormous increase in applications 

 for camp sites must be expected as the 

 State's invitation receives wider considera- 

 tion among so many people, who seek rec- 

 reation within a convenient distance from 

 their homes. 



The forest extending along the Kitta- 

 tinny Mountain is a most desirable one 

 for the expansion of State holdings, as it 

 is well suited for recreation purposes as 

 well as the practice of forestry. The seven 

 thousand acres already embodied in the 

 Stokes State Forest afford an unexcelled 

 vacation ground for lovers of outdoor life. 



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