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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



True forest conservation will give serious thought to 

 the degraded woodland areas in the eastern States. They 

 can be made to yield a double harvest one of wood, 

 another of human uplift. 



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TWO NOTABLE OAKS 



By J. R. Simmons 



IN FRONT of the Wayside Inn, on the State Road, 

 in Sudbury, Mass., about 20 miles west from Boston, 

 stand these two mighty white oaks, measuring 18 

 feet 2J^ inches and 17 feet 7 inches in circumference, 

 respectively, and spreading their powerful branches over 

 a space of about 225 feet. 



THESE OAKS SAW WASHINGTON PASS 



Under their branches the father of his country passed on his way to Cambridge to take command of the 



Continental Army. 



Here they stood in June, lYIo, when Washington 

 passed on his way to Cambridge to take command of 

 the Patriot army ; and again, nearly a century later, their 

 silent grandeur attracted the eye and appealed to the heart 

 of Longfellow, who made them famous in his "Tales 

 of a W^ayside Inn." 



"Through the ancient oaks o'erhead, 

 Mysterious voices moaned and fled." 



They stand as witnesses of a long series of historical 

 events reaching back over a period of years previous to 

 the coming of the first European settlers. The oldest 

 citizens in their vicinity claim for them an age of up- 

 wards of ],000 years. Certainly in appearance they 

 would seem to bear out the tradition. 



The tree on the left of the picture has not succeeded 

 in preserving its history by means of radial rings. Its 

 trunk is hollow, and, by entering through an opening on 

 the side furthest from the road, three persons might 

 stand upright within. The other oak is comparatively 

 sound, and when death comes a cross section will un- 

 doubtedly record a very long and interesting life. 



The measurements given were made in the early spring 

 of 1915. 



STATES GET $850,000 FROM NATIONAL FORESTS 



HE portion of the National Forest receipts for the 

 fiscal year 1915 to go to the benefit of the various 

 States in which the forests lie, according to the 

 computation of the Forest Service just approved by 

 the Secretary of the Treasury, amounts all told to more 

 than $850,000. The gross receipts for the year ending 

 June 30 were $2,481,469.35, of which under the law 25 

 per cent is paid over to the States for county school and 

 road purposes and an additional 10 per cent is made 

 available for expenditure by the Secretary of Agriculture 

 ill building roads and trails for the benefit of local com- 

 munities. 



Montana gets the largest share, 

 having contributed the largest 

 amount of receipts for the sale 

 of timber, grazing, and other 

 uses of the forests, or more than 

 $318,000. Of this amount, 

 Montana is to receive $79,589.78 

 for county school and road pur- 

 poses, while the Forest Service 

 will expend $31,835.91 for im- 

 provements of special benefit to 

 local communities and not in- 

 cluded in the regular administra- 

 tive and protective improve- 

 ments. Idaho comes second with 

 a 25 per cent allowance of $75,- 

 ()51.15 and a 10 per cent fund of 

 $30,260.46. California is third, 

 receiving a 25 per cent allowance 

 of $67,611.37 and a 10 per cent 

 fund of $27,044.74. The other 

 National Forest States follow in 

 the order of the size of their respective shares. 



Arizona, $59,807.89, under the 25 per cent provision 

 and $23,923.16 under the 10 per cent; Colorado, $59,- 

 218.60 and $23,687.44; Oregon, $49,675.83 and $19,- 

 870.33; Utah, $48,675.96 and $19,470.38; Wyoming, 

 $43,086.86 and $17,234.75 ; Washington, $37,445.56 and 

 $14,978.23; New Mexico, $31,786.46 and $12,714.58; Ne- 

 vada, $16,244.53 and $6,497.81 ; South Dakota, $12,988.11 

 and $5,195.25; Alaska, $11,165.75 and $4,466.30; Ar- 

 kansas, $8,738.93 and $3,495.57 ; Florida, $2,336.77 and 

 $934.71; Minnesota, $1,971.60 and $788.64; Nebraska, 

 $1,401.15 and $560.46; Kansas, $1,357.33 and $542.93; 

 Oklahoma, 759.77 and $303.91; Michigan, $198.37 and 

 $79.35; North Dakota, $81.83 and $32.73; Porto Rico, 

 $9.25 and $3.70. 



The States of Arizona and New Mexico receive ad- 

 ditional shares for their school funds on account of 

 school lands included within the National Forests, yield- 

 ing them $28,966.46 and $9,311.87 respectively. 



On the National Forest Purchase Areas in the East, a 

 total of $3,977.60 was collected in Georgia, New Hamp- 

 shire, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West 

 Virginia, these States thereby sharing $994.40 under the 

 25 per cent provision and $397.76 under the 10 per cent. 



