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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



these figures are not entirely right, but 

 they are collected and published in a 

 laudable effort to give the kind of infor- 

 mation that is worth something. 



Tennessee. This exhibit is almost 

 without significance. A numberof small 

 wood samples make a show without tell- 

 ing anything, and some manufactured 

 articles, cedar ware, etc., though good 

 and representing important industries, 

 are set up with nothing to indicate why 

 they are shown. Tennessee could and 

 should have done better. She can even 

 yet remove a number of cross-sections of 

 logs with longitudinal grain. 



Texas. Probably few people think of 

 Texas as a timbered state. The exhibit 

 here is emphatic evidence to the con- 

 trary. Two booths of longleaf pine, 

 one in cabinet style, the other rustic, 

 contain a fine show of that wood in com- 

 mercial forms and a collection of wood 

 specimens that, in variety and size, is 

 not inferior to that from any other sec- 

 tion. Unfortunately, there is no statis- 

 tical or graphic information offered. 



Virginia. Virginia's interest in her 

 forests is evidently less active than in 

 her fisheries and oyster beds. There are 

 some good specimens of lumber shown 

 and a few forest pictures, yet one finds 

 no reference to the many bodies of 

 thrifty young timber that the state con- 

 tains growths made since the civil 

 war nor to the locations of mature tim- 

 ber, the facilities for logging, etc. 



Washington. The great forests of 

 Washington are inadequately repre- 

 sented. The outer wood and bark from 

 the butt of a red fir tree 15 feet in diam- 

 eter is set up to form a room and is an 

 attraction to man}- visitors, and some 

 large planks of red fir, giant cedar, and 

 sitka spruce show the size and quality of 

 Washington lumber, but the extent of 

 the forests and their economic value are 

 nowhere shown save in a pamphlet with 

 fine pictures and not much information. 



The Washington state building is, 

 however, a demonstration in red fir and 

 deserves a visit on that account. 



Wisconsin makes her chief exhibit of 

 large white pine framing timbers. The 

 booth is attractive, yet one is bound to 

 reflect that white pine never was a struc- 

 tural wood, and large pieces are now too 



rare to be worked into such forms except 

 for a purpose like this. As a display of 

 the former importance of white pine, the 

 exhibit has considerable interest. Cop- 

 ies of a notice posted throughout the 

 state evidence the activity of the forester 

 and the desire of the people to protect 

 and maintain the forests that are left. 



Several other states make exhibits of 

 forest products, or of work done in be- 

 half of forestry, yet they do not deserve 

 special mention. Far more significant is 

 the failure of such leading states in the 

 forestry movement as Pennsylvania, 

 Maine, and Minnesota to show what 

 they have done to maintain and extend 

 their woodlands. 



BUREAU OF FORESTRY. 



This exhibit deserves to be studied. 

 There is plan and purpose in it, and 

 each feature is meant to show some 

 part of the work in which the national 

 government is engaged. 



Inside an arcade 88 feet long and 16 

 feet wide, with no light but that which 

 comes through the pictures, is displayed 

 a great collection of photographic trans- 

 parencies illustrating the forests and 

 forest problems of the United States. 

 One wall is devoted to the eastern half 

 of the country, the other to the western, 

 and the individual pictures are often so 

 arranged that it is possible to com- 

 pare conditions in the east with those in 

 the west. The series as a whole illus- 

 trates every type of natural forest and 

 many situations that have been modified 

 by the skill of the forester. 



Supplementing this set of pictures is 

 a series of enlarged photographs painted 

 in the natural colors and framed in the 

 balustrade that encloses the exhibit 

 space. Some of these pictures are ten 

 feet long and give wonderful panoramic 

 views of several forest regions. The 

 best is probably that of Grandfather 

 Mountain, the central feature of the 

 proposed Appalachian Reserve. It is 

 unfortunate that the pictures are set too 

 low to attract general attention. 



But this exhibit is not all pictures. 

 A large case contains a set of long-leaf 

 pine trunks showing every stage of the 

 process of collecting the resin from 

 which turpentine and rosin are derived, 



