

Vol. XII. 



JULY, 1906. 



No. 7 



NEWS AND NOTES 



New 



Forestry 



Association 



Of the Northern New 

 York Forestry Associa- 

 tion recently organized 



the Paper Mill has the following to 



say: 



"There is considerable interest 

 throughout this section in the new as- 

 sociation just formed for promotion 

 of common-sense methods in forest cul- 

 ture in the Empire State. It will be re- 

 membered that manv members of. the 

 trade are interested in this association. 



"That the efforts of the new organ- 

 ization will be intelligently directed 

 and will result in much good for the 

 important object involved is apparent 

 at a glance. The men interested are 

 among the leaders in the section's ac- 

 tivities, and they will see to it that 

 everything possible is done to help the 

 people toward the right point of view 

 in this matter. 



"The plan of campaign is not fully 

 mapped out as yet, but it is understood 

 that one portion of the plan in consid- 

 eration is to disseminate literature 

 compiling from the highest sources 

 facts and figures to prove that the Eu- 

 ropean system of forest culture, which 

 permits the securing of no inconsider- 



able revenue through the judicious 

 cutting of ripened timber, is better 

 than the present 'let-alone' policy 

 which doesn't do the State or anybody 

 any good. The idea of allowing the 

 forest to wallow in its own decay, 

 without the right to take a single stick 

 of timber therefrom, is an antiquated 

 one, a fact which is better realized in 

 Northern New York than in some 

 other sections of the Empire State. 



"It must not be assumed, however, 

 that the newly formed association for 

 one moment stands for the wholesale 

 destruction of the forest. Its mem- 

 bers are not so foolish. Time was, a 

 generation or so ago, when members 

 of the trade as well as lumbermen, 

 grown reckless through the accus- 

 tomed sight of much profusion, were 

 wasteful in their methods, though the 

 brunt of these practices must be laid 

 far more at the doors of lumbermen 

 than of the trade. Certain operators 

 were accustomed, after the first and 

 second cuttings, which weeded out 

 about everything worth while, to burn 

 the denuded tracts over and leave of 

 them only blackened wastes. There 

 has not been the semblance of these 

 practices among the trade in many 



