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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



So far as known at present, the subject 

 had not previously been investigated. Its sci- 

 entific value is obvious. Its practical value 

 lies in the fact that by the microscopic 



methods employed in this case it will doubt- 

 less prove possible, in time, to determine 

 the silvicultural possibilities of a species, in 

 part at least, in the laboratory. 



STATE WORK 



Wisconsin Wood'using Industries 



A pamphlet on the wood-using industries 

 of Wisconsin has been published by the state 

 board of forestry. The report is the first 

 authentic review of the several industries in 

 the state of which the product of the forests 

 is the principal raw material utilized, and 

 sets forth clearly facts and figures that de- 

 mand the attention of every manufacturer. 

 It is the second of the cooperative studies to 

 appear, the work having been done by Frank- 

 lin H. Smith, of the United States Forest 

 Service, under joint direction of the office of 

 wood utilization of the Service, and the state 

 forester of Wisconsin. 



The report embraces in detail figures that 

 show the consumption of wood by industries 

 and species, and also the quantities derived 

 from the forests of Wisconsin and from 

 without the state; the uses of the different 

 kinds of wood; the relative prices paid by 

 the industries for the various woods con- 

 sumed, and other data pertaining to the man- 

 afactures. 



The wood-using industries of Wisconsin 

 represent a very large part of the wealth of 

 the state that is dependent upon its natural 

 resources. It is to the advantage of all to 

 encourage the fullest development consistent 

 with proper protection of the forests, to the 

 end that the manufacturing interests of the 

 state may continue to have adequate supplies 

 of raw material and prosper accordingly. 



This line of work was recently inaugurated 

 by the state of Massachusetts, which has also 

 published a report, in the preparation of 

 which the Forest Service took a part by the 

 cooperation of Mr. Hu Maxwell of the 

 Service. The first essential in using the forest 

 economically is to use economically the wood 

 which the forest produces. Information bear- 

 ing upon the present methods of using wood 

 is therefore of prime importance, not only to 

 the several states and their citizens, but to 

 the country as a whole. The wood-using 

 industries must be assured that they will con- 

 tinue to obtain their raw materials. 



Assistant State Forester in New Jersey 



Charles P. Wilbur, of New Brunswick, who 

 has been at work on one of the national 

 forests in Idaho, has been selected by Alfred 

 N. Gaskill, forester to the New Jersey 

 forest park reservation commission, as assist- 

 ant forester to the commission. 



Results on Experimental Forest in Indiana 



A recent inspection of the 2,ooo-acre ex- 

 perimental forest which is maintained by 

 the state of Indiana near Henryville showed 

 that the measures employed to protect and 

 improve the forest are meeting with good 

 success. 



Working for New Forest Law in Alabama 



John H. Wallace, Jr., commissioner of the 

 department of game and fish in the state of 

 Alabama, is busy preparing to draw up a 

 comprehensive forest law for the state, so 

 that he may have his recommendations in 

 tangible shape to present to the legislature 

 at its next session. He expects to secure 

 the enactment of a progressive measure. 



Chestnut Blight in Pennsylvania 



The state forest department of Pennsyl- 

 vania has arranged to send competent men 

 from the state forest academy at Mont Alto 

 to the neighborhood of Bryn Mawr, Haver- 

 ford, and Ardmore, in order to do what can 

 be done toward the suppression of the chest- 

 nut blight, which has attacked and destroyed 

 large numbers of trees throughout Mont- 

 gomery and Delaware counties. 



