1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



87 



Middletown is developing its water- 

 shed under the direction of the Con- 

 necticut State Forester. 



THE WACHUSETT RESERVOIR. 



The Metropolitan Water and Sew- 

 erage Board began to practice forestry 

 on the watershed about the Wachusett 

 reservoir in 1898. There are about 

 3,000 acres available for forestry pur- 



poses. There are some small patches 

 of growth, but the greater part of the 

 tract is made up of old fields. These 

 fields are being planted at the rate of 

 about 200 acres a year. 



It will be a quarter of a century or 

 more before the Commonwealth be- 

 gins to realize in a commercial way 

 on this planting. But it will get its 

 money back with interest ; and the 



T'ardwood Stand, Needing Moderate Thinning, on the Hartford Watershed. 



