FOREST POLICY. 



Leather industry: 147 tanneries yield annually $23,200,000 

 worth of products and consume 179,000 cords of hemlock bark, 

 worth $1,200,000; 4,000 cords oak bark, worth $33,ooo; 19,000 

 bales of gambier, worth $123,000, 2,100 barrels of hemlock bark 

 extract, worth $25,000; 526 barrels of oak bark extract, worth 

 $5,5oo; 615 barrels of quebracho, worth $9,500; 2,150 tons of 

 sumac, worth $104,000; and chemicals, worth $330,000. 



Paper and pulp industry: New York leads the United 

 States, in the I2th census year, by producing $26,700,000 worth 

 of pulp and paper. 179 firms consume: Home-grown spruce, 

 363,000 cords, worth $1,085,000; Canadian Spruce, 141,000 cords, 

 worth $945,000; domestic poplar 32,000 cords, worth $181,000; 

 Canadian poplar, 9,600 cords, worth $57,000; other pulp wood, 

 9,500 cords, worth $40,000. After Fernow, more spruce is now 

 consumed for pulp than for lumber. 



6. Forestry movement: New York, as late as 1884, was 

 still the owner of some woodlands in the Adirondacks, and Cats- 

 kills. The Adirondack Park Association stimulated further ac- 

 quisitions by the State. The New York State college of forestry 

 was expected to demonstrate the feasibility of practical forestry 

 on 30,000 acres of experimental forest and to supply the State 

 with scientific foresters. 



7. Laws: Law of 1886 allows the State to pay taxes on 

 her own land. 



Law of 1889 provides penalty of $25 for every tree cut or 

 stolen from the State's land. 



In 1897, the Adirondack Park law was enacted. 



Since 1893, forest utilization in the Adirondack forest pre- 

 serve is forbidden by a constitutional clause. 



In 1895, the Forest Commission was combined with the 

 Fish and Game Commission (See XXXI.). 



In 1900, the office of chief fire warden was created and 

 the Commission authorized to employ three expert foresters to 

 act as deputy fire wardens, attend reforestation, etc. 



In 1901, the Forest, Fish and Game Commission was con- 

 solidated with the Forest Preserve Board. D. C. Middleton, 

 of Watertown, is the forestry member of the Commission. Col. 

 Wm. F. Fox is Forest Superintendent. The law makes it the 

 duty of the Commission 



(a) To take care of the State forest preserves. 



(b) To promote "further growth" in the preserves. 



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