1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



575 



more frequently pure. The species of 

 3'ellow pine which occur, in order of 

 their importance, are loblolly, scrub, 

 short-leaf, and pitch. The pine on 

 land over forty feet in elevation above 

 sea is prevailingly scrub, and below 

 forty feet is mostly loblolly. 



In the United States census for 

 1900 the following figures are given 

 on the lumber industry in Maryland 

 for that year : 



Cut of conifers. .109,651,000 board ft. 

 Hardwoods 78,306,000 board ft. 



Total 187,957,000 board ft. 



Value of product $2,650,082 



by the United States Forest Service 

 and personal advice and assistance 

 given by this bureau to private own- 

 ers in handling their wood lands; (2) 

 the co-operation of the Maryland 

 State Geological Survey with the 

 United States Forest Service in the 

 investigation and mapping of the for- 

 ests of the state by counties, including 

 practicable recommendations in re- 

 gard to forest management by private 

 owners. 



Interest in forestry by private own- 

 ers of woodlands in Maryland may 

 be said to date from October, 1898; so 

 that the forestry movement in the 



Photo bv U. S. Forest Service. 



A Loblolly Pine Forest. 



Probably about half of this lumber 

 produced was from the mountain re- 

 gion and half from the Coastal Plain, 

 but none to speak of from the Pied- 

 mont section. 



II. PROGRESS OP FORESTRY IN THE 

 STATE. 



The developments of forestry in 

 Maryland has progressed steadily 

 along educational and practical lines. 

 The actual practice of forestry in the 

 state has been entirely by private land 

 owners, as there are as yet no state or 

 federal forest reserves in Maryland. 

 The impulse for private forestry has 

 come chiefly from two sources: (i) 

 The diffusion of literature on forestry 



state is as yet little more than seven 

 years old. It was in the fall of 1898 

 that the Forest Service (at that time 

 the Division of Forestry) issued Cir- 

 cular 21 offering personal advice and 

 assistance to private owners in the 

 management of woodlands. Previous 

 to this the work of the Forest Ser- 

 vice had been purely of an educational 

 nature in the diffusion of literature on 

 forestry, and little or nothing in the 

 way of practical private forestry had 

 been accomplished. This offer of per 

 sonal inspection of wood lands by an 

 expert, followed by practical advice 

 and assistance in handling the forest, 

 gave the initial impetus to private for- 

 estry. Many private owners of wood 



