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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



January, 



maining in the United States is in the 

 mountain regions of New Hampshire, 

 and there are also scattered about in 

 various sections of the state consider- 

 able quantities of white pine, which 

 are being rapidly cut. It is not the 

 object of this Society to prevent the 

 cutting of timber, bvit to induce the 

 lumbermen and the farmers to cut their 

 timber according to the rules of forestry, 

 so that the crop may be perpetual. 



' ' It is unnecessary to point out how 

 important it is to the State of New 

 Hampshire, and, in fact, to all of New 

 England, that its forests should be per- 

 petuated. This fact is recognized by 

 all, and it is simply a question of means, 

 and the best way to bring this about. 

 It is a very difficult matter to regulate 

 by legislation, though we think some- 

 thing of a practical nature can be done 

 in this line ; but it can only be done 

 after the people have been properly edu- 

 cated. We think a great deal can be 

 done by personal efforts among the lum- 

 bermen, especially when we get them to 

 understand that we are not trying to 

 prevent the proper cutting of timber. 

 We believe that timber is a crop which 

 should be harvested, as much as rye or 

 oats, but that it should be done in a 

 sensible manner, looking to the future 

 supply." 



New Forest The register and receiver 

 Reserve. of the Kalispell (Mont.) 



land office lias received 

 a letter from the Interior Department 

 instructing him of the withdrawal of all 

 lands from settlement in Montana north 

 and west of the Kootenai River. The 

 order will affect over 1,000, oco acres 

 of land in Montana, besides 276,000 

 acres in Idaho, which when surveyed 

 will be made into a new forest reserv^e, 

 to be known as the Kootenai Forest 

 Reserve. 



Obituary. The man^- friends of Dr. 



Bernhard E. Fernow, 

 Director of the New York State College 

 of Forestry, will greatly regret to learn 

 of the death of his only daughter. Miss 

 Gordon Fernow, which occvirred on 

 January 3. Miss Fernow died after a 

 short illness, which resulted in blood 

 poisoning. She was just twenty-one 

 years of age, and was one of the most 

 prominent members of the senior class 

 in Sage College, Cornell University. 

 Miss Fernow is survived by her parents 

 and four brothers, two of whom are also- 

 students in the university. 



In Connecticut. State Forester Mulford, 

 of Connecticut, has re- 

 ceived offers of land for the state park 

 from twenty Connecticut towns. These 

 bids were received in response to the call 

 which was sent out by Mr. Mulford sev- 

 eral months ago, stating the provisi(ms 

 of the new state law, which took effect 

 last August, under which the state is 

 empowered to buy land for a practical 

 demonstration of forest methods. The 

 state already owns a sixty-acre tract of 

 waste plain land above Rainbow, in the 

 town of Windsor; and at the Poquonock 

 experiment station Mr. Mulford is rais- 

 ing thousands of young pine and spruce 

 trees to be set out on sandy waste lands 

 of the kind found on the Rainbow pur- 

 chase. 



The state authorit}' for the acquisi- 

 tion of this property' is the law passed 

 at the last session of the legislature, 

 which provided for the expenditure of 

 $2,000 under certain conditions, which 

 were mentioned in the November FoR- 

 EvSTER. The intent of the law is to pro- 

 vide an object-lesson in the handling of 

 woodland, especially on poor soil, so that 

 the citizens of this state may profit by 

 the experiments in scientific forestry car- 

 ried on near their own homes. 



