Indiana's Forestry Home 



By Burr N. Prentice 



THE Indiana State Board of Forestry is planning 

 a large forestry exhibit for the new building at 

 the State Fair at Indianapolis, September 6 to 11. 

 The board has now at its disposal a building well 

 suited for its purpose. It is of the bungalow type. '^4 by 

 36 feet. It will be occupied by 

 an extensive exhibit of the for- 

 ests of the State and their prod- 

 ucts. The results of the work 

 of the State Board at the Indi- 

 ana forest reservation are to be 

 graphically shown. A complete 

 dendrological collection of the 

 timber trees of Indiana is to oc- 

 cupy another section ; statistics 

 and charts outlining the status 

 of the wood-working industries 

 of the State are to be given a 

 third section, while a fourth 

 large section is to be occupied 

 by the lumbering, utilization and 

 timber preservation interests of 

 the State. It is desired that no 

 phase of the situation be omit- 

 ted, to the end that this new 

 home of the State Board during 

 the fair may be a place of such 



interest to all lumbermen and those in any way interested 

 in forestry that they will make it their headquarters 

 while on the grounds. 



For several years the Board has been carrying on a 

 series of experiments at the State Forest Reservation, 

 near Henryville, Ind., to determine important factors 

 that enter into the maintenance of Indiana woodlots. 

 It is said that in Germany negative information is con- 

 sidered of as much value as that of a positive nature. 

 The proof that certain species of trees are unfit for 

 soil and climatic conditions existing in Indiana should 

 be as valuable to woodlot owners as the proof that cer- 

 tain others are particularly adapted to that climate. The 

 Board finds that some valuable species' of trees make a 

 rapid and financially successful growth in the State's 

 woodlots, while many other less valuable species, which 

 unfortunately are often permitted to take up space in the 

 woodlot, cannot be made to show a profit. 



The reservation, which covers an area of some 2,000 

 acres, is located on some of the poorest soil in Indiana. 

 Experiments which have been carried on there are of 

 especial value, because this is the particular class of 

 soil least suited for agriculture. The State Board has 

 kept accurate growth records of the demonstration plots 

 and reforestation work at the reservation. The large 

 variety in the species under experimentation has brought 



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ings at the reservation, will form a part of the exhibit. 

 to notice many factors of growth which are of vital in- 

 terest to the woodlot owner. 



All this material clearly and vividly shown, together 

 with actual photographs of plantations and under plant- 



A STATE FORESTRY BUILDING 



Erected by the Indiana State Board of Forestry for exhibition purposes at the State Fair, Indianapolis, 

 Indiana. State Forester E. A. Gladden at the entrance. 



The Board announces a special feature of interest to 

 the friends of closer wood utilization throughout the cen- 

 tral hardwood region. This is the appearance of Mr. 

 E. A. Sterling as one of the list of speakers. He is a 

 well-known authority on utilization subjects and a live 

 factor in the combat between wood and its substitutes. 

 He will represent the new Trade E.xtension department 

 of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association of 

 Chicago. 



PHILIPPINE LUMBER FOR CHINA 



The Director of the Philippine Bureau of Forestry, 

 who has recently returned from a trip to China in the 

 interests of Philippine lumber, reports that there is a 

 market in China for all the lumber produced in the 

 islands if the proper connections can be made between the 

 producer and consumer. The Chinese dealers want a 

 guarantee of a constant supply. They are not willing 

 to accept one consignment, but demand that they be as- 

 sured of continuous supply, even though it be small. An 

 .American formerly in the service of the Philippine Gov- 

 ernment, now in business in Shanghai, reports that there 

 is a demand there for Philippine lumber, but there is not 

 a constant supply, and the purchaser is never sure of 

 getting enough of the same class to complete his particular 

 job. 



