1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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also started a protecting forest 

 around its secondary reservoir in 

 Monroe county. It will be found ad- 

 visable to protect with more or less 

 forest, Skaneatles Lake, supplying 

 Syracuse ; Conesus Lake, supplying 

 Geneseo and Avon, and other lakes 

 supplying cities. 



Even in the rich agricultural coun- 

 ties, there will always be a local de- 

 mand for wood and timber, and there 

 are waste areas, and exhausted tracts, 

 which could well be put into forests, 

 for the purpose of supplying the lo- 

 cal demands, and do away with the 

 necessity of wood lots on each farm 

 which are run usually in a wasteful 

 manner and occupy too valuable 

 land. 



These small forests would afford 

 the most attractive recreation areas 

 for the neighboring localities, and 

 after two or three generations they 

 could be turned back to agricultural 

 use, when new soil will have been 

 formed. The plan followed in New 

 York has been to confine the State 

 forests to an area of about three and 

 one-quarter million acres in the Adi- 

 rondacks and a few hundred thous- 



and in the Catskills. This should be 

 enlarged so as to make the limit to 

 be striven for, include all of the un- 

 improved or forest land in the State. 



This would comprise more than 

 10,000,000 acres of which about 

 6,000,000 would be in one great 

 body, lying in thirteen counties, 

 covering the Adirondacks, including 

 Lake George, the west shore of Lake 

 Champlain, Lyon Mountain, and ex- 

 cepting the lower Black river valley 

 proper, include the great forest in 

 top of Tug Hill, between the Black 

 and Mohawk rivers. 



Another great forest would com- 

 prise about 1,500,000 acres lying in 

 five counties and covering the Cat- 

 skills and Helderbergs, and still an- 

 other would comprise about 1,250,- 

 ooo acres lying along the southern 

 boundary of the state in seven coun- 

 ties. 



In addition to these there might be 

 1,250,000 acres distributed amongst 

 thirty counties, in forests ranging in 

 sizes from 2,000 acres in the rich 

 county of Wayne to possibly 300,000 

 acres in Suffolk including the sandy 

 shores of Long Island. 



ECONOMIC METHODS IN RESTOCKING 

 WHITE PINE FORESTS 



BY 

 F. WILLIAM RANE 



Professor of Horticulture and Forestry, New Hampshire College 



~" HE white pine probably has play- 

 ed as important a part in lum- 

 bering interests as any tree that is 

 indigenous to the country. As the 

 primeval forests of this valuable tim- 

 ber are rapidly disappearing and 

 hence, prices proportionately rising, 

 the natural consequences are that 

 problems of economy, not only in the 

 use of the present supply but meth- 

 ods of renewal toward growing sim- 

 ilar crops for the future are dawn- 



ing. When anything reaches the 

 stage that money valuations become 

 stranded and of recognized import- 

 ance we then have a basis for build- 

 ing financial structures. The great- 

 est trouble in the past as regards for- 

 estry and its economic importance has 

 been the problem of definite values. 

 Today even pine box boards have a 

 standard value of about $14 per 

 thousand feet board measure in New 

 England. Square edged boards of 



