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THE FORESTER. 



June, 



forestry, the first attempt in Tennessee, 

 is being carried on at the present time on 

 the domain of the University of the South 

 at Sewanee. This tract of nearly 10,000 

 acres of hardwood is being lumbered in a 

 scientific manner under the direction of 

 the Division of Forestry of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. After 

 a thorough examination of this tract by 

 the government experts a working-plan 

 was made and lumbering has begun, and 

 is being carried on with a view of provid- 

 ing a steady annual income to the univer- 



sity, and at the same time taking care to 

 protect and promote the future growth of 

 the forest. During the early spring the 

 Division of Forestry began collecting the 

 necessary data for a working-plan on 

 85,000 acres of forest land in Polk and 

 Monroe counties in eastern Tennessee be- 

 longing to Senator George Peabody Wet- 

 more of Rhode Island. Is it not possible 

 that these examples will bring the State to 

 realize the necessity of a well-defined 

 forest policy and at the same time awaken 

 private owners to the needs of the hour? 



FIRE LINES IN PINE FOREST IN PRUSSIA. 



By F. Tracy Hubbard. 



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soil 



INE forests are in all probability the Eberswalde in Prussia. The pines (_Pi- 



most easily set on fire and this is espe- mis sylvestris) are growing in clear stand 



cially true of those growing on sandy on a sandy soil, presumably the delta for- 



Such forests form the chief stand mation of the under ice-streams of the 



of the district at Chorin, a little village near 



glacier that once covered the region. 



The 



ROAD AND PATH ACTING AS FIRE UNFS. THIS PICTURE SHOWS HOW A ROAD OR 



A FIRE PATH MAY CHECK A SURFACE FIRE. THE EIMlT OF THE 



FIRE IS SHOWN BY THE UNBURNED GRASS. 



