1900. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



thing worth doing is worth doing well,' 

 and when a rule of that kind is adopted, in 

 my judgment, the problem of forest fires 

 within the confines of the Forest Reserve 

 will be solved ; for no man will allow fires 

 to get out, or be careless in the setting of 

 such, if he knows that the forestry officers 

 are cognizant of his whereabouts, and that 

 he will be held strictly to the letter of the 

 law. "--Address of W. W. H. Dufur, 

 Forest Supervisor, reported in the Dufur 

 (Ore.) Dispatch. 



Trade in 

 Wood Products. 



The Bureau of Statistics 

 of the Treasury Department 

 has published, in the Alonthly Summarv 

 of Commerce and Finance for April, 

 1900, a list of the United States' exports 

 and imports to and from Cuba, Porto 

 Rico, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Phil- 

 ippines for ten months ending with April 

 of the current year. The statistics of the 

 trade in wood products with these islands 

 may be summarized thus: 



Total with all the Islands : $3,276,914. 

 J* 



A Plea for the " Friends of Ohio ! I wish 

 Woodlands to make a plea for the preser- 

 ofOhio. vation of a large portion of 

 the existing woodland of the State. I 

 charge you to spare, preserve and cherish 

 the best part of what is yet left of our 

 primitive forest, for when this is all cut 

 away I apprehend it will not easily be re- 

 placed. On every hand we hear the cry, 

 'Down with the rest of our forest trees!' 

 All the fuel and lumber we need can be 

 bought for less than one-half the product 

 we can raise on the ground now covered 

 with wood. 



" Experience proves that this is a sad 

 miscalculation. With one-fifth of your 

 land in wood, judiciously covering the 

 crests of stony ridges, the sides of steep 

 hillsides and ravines, occupying the thinnest 

 soil and the most exposed situations, the 

 average farm will produce more than if 

 wholly denuded of trees and laid bare to 

 the scorching sun and bleak, scathing 

 winds. 



"As a State, we are beginning to feel 

 the effects of the too reckless destruction of 

 our woodland. Floods are more frequent 

 and desolating; drouths are more severe 

 and protracted. Untimely frosts are often 

 ruinous to all the more delicate fruits, and 

 this is in part the penalty we pay for de- 

 priving our fields and gardens of the genial, 

 hospitable protection of forests. 



" I have said that our existing woodland 

 should not be ctit off but may and should 

 be cut out. Any fairly-grown forest can 

 always spare some trees and be benefited 

 by their removal." W. R. Lazenby in the 

 Jouriial of the Columbus Horticultural 

 Society. 



Progress in The Scientific American 



Pennsylvania. f or j une 2 ^ contains an ad- 

 dress which Dr. J. T. Rothrock delivered 

 before the Pennsylvania Forestry Associa- 

 tion last February. In the course of the 

 address Dr. Rothrock said : 



" In Pennsylvania we are able to report 

 substantial progress in the way of suppres- 

 sion of forest fires. Ten years ago it was 

 estimated, and not overestimated, that the 

 annual loss to this State by forest fires was 

 not less than $1,000,000 a year; in some 

 years I know it exceeded that. In 1896, 

 the loss by forest fires was only about 



$557i5 6 ; in :8 97> it: was $394<3 2 7; in 

 1898, it did not exceed $250,000. Now, 

 of course, we must make allowance for 

 certain differences of seasons, which may 

 have tended to ameliorate these fire losses, 

 or to have lessened them ; but, neverthe- 

 less, we cannot avoid the conclusion that 

 a very large portion of this betterment has 

 been the result of the labors of the Penn- 

 sylvania Forestry Association and the State 

 Department of Agriculture. Every law 



