GOVERNMENT FORESTRY EXHIBIT. 



WHAT IT COMPRISES AND HOW IT IS 

 ARRANGED AT THE ST. LOUIS FAIR. 



THE Bureau of Forestry of the U. S. their renewal by natural reproduction, 

 Department of Agriculture has forest planting in treeless regions or 

 prepared for the Louisiana Purchase where forests have been destroyed, and 

 Exposition the most extensive display damage by fire, insects, over-grazing, 

 it has ever made. The purpose is both etc. , are shown most clearly. Nearly 

 to illustrate the work which the Bureau all of the transparencies are of large size, 

 is doing and to show actual forest con- some of them 4 by 5 feet. They are 

 ditions in all parts of the country. The arranged to be seen from the inside of 

 visitor will see there the most impressive an arcade illuminated by natural light, 

 evidence of what practical forestry is, with Eastern and Western forest scenes 

 and also its great present and future im- shown on opposite walls. This series is 

 portance as a means of promoting the supplemented by a collection of large 

 national welfare. Lumbering ranks colored bromide photographs framed in 

 fourth among the industries of the coun- the panels of the balustrade which sur- 

 try , and it is a matter of hopeful promise rounds the exhibit space. On the floor 

 for the permanence of the industry and between the balustrade and the arcade 

 for the cause of forestry that lumbermen are cases which display some specially 

 are adopting conservative forest manage- important phases of the Bureau's inves- 

 ment in their lumbering operations. tigations, together with a collection of 

 That agriculture, incomparably the most all the instruments used in forest work, 

 important of our national sources of the publications of the Bureau, etc. Of 

 wealth, also depends in no small degree particular interest is a large case con- 

 on forestry, is not, however, so well taininglongleaf pine trunks which show 

 understood. Under intensive methods the advantages of the new system of tur- 

 of farming, and with the enlargement pentining promoted by the Bureau and 

 of the cultivable area made possible by the disadvantages and injurious effects 

 irrigation, this dependence will become of the old system of boxing. Two other 

 increasingly close. Mining and grazing, cases exhibit insects and examples of 

 too, materially depend on forestry, for their destructive work. The method of 

 mines demand cheap and abundant tim- determining the strength of commercial 

 ber, and the forage which feeds most of timbers is shown by a testing machine, 

 the Western stock is one of the impor- while the results of tests are shown by 

 tant indirect products which, under charts and tested timbers. There is also 

 proper restrictions, the forest may be a large collection of timbers, both from 

 made to yield. All of these relation- the United States and Europe, treated 

 ships are strikingly displayed in the by different preservative processes to 

 forestry exhibit at St. Louis. show the manner of increasing the life 

 The space allotted to the Bureau of of various construction timbers. Several 

 Forestry is in two different, though not specimens are shown of building and 

 widely separated, parts of the fair other timbers which have been in use 

 grounds. An indoor exhibit is located for thirty years or more, 

 in the Forestry, Fish, and Game Build- One of the special features of the ex- 

 ing, in which is centered also an ex- hibit is a relief map of the United States 

 hibition of the lumber industry of the cast upon a section of a sphere 16 feet 

 United States. A striking and complete in diameter. By using this type of map 

 collection of photographic transparen- the geographical distortion inevitable in 

 cies illustrate forest conditions and" prob- flat maps is avoided, and the real rela- 

 lems as they are encountered by the tionship of the various parts of the coun- 

 Bureau. Typical single trees and forests, try and their actual position on the globe 

 the cutting or harvesting of forests and are correctly shown. The distribution 



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