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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



July 



years, though certain lumbermen are 

 still sinners in this regard. 



"Now this new association, to which 

 belong many members of the trade 

 and many enlightened lumbermen, in- 

 tends to war upon these nractices just 

 as much as it does upon the foolish 

 'let-alone' policy. What the members 

 of this organization desire is to insti- 

 tute in Northern New York a system 

 of forest preservation and culture in 

 line with common sensee. In search- 

 ing for such a system their eyes fall 

 naturally upon the forests, splendid as- 

 sets under governmental protection, as 

 in Austria and Germany. The associa- 

 tion, too, is in strict sympathy with the 

 efforts along lines that are being made 

 by the Government. 



"The trade's attitude in the matter 

 of timber cutting has for years been 

 along the line of retrenchment and the 

 conservation and replanting of denud- 

 ed wastes. The act of the Remington- 

 Martin Company, of Norfolk and 

 Watertown, in buying a great tract 

 upon which forest culture is to pro- 

 ceed annually, years to pass before any 

 cutting is done, is a fair sample of how 

 the mill owneers of this section feel 

 about it. 



The Northern New York Forestry 

 Association, whose principal office is 

 at Watertown, was incorporated June 

 29, to spread sound information in re- 

 lation to the protection of the forests 

 and the cultivation of forests on waste 

 lands throughout Northern New 

 York. The directors are : O. B. Tap- 

 pan, of Potsdam ; G. H. P. Gould, of 

 Lvon Falls ; W. B. Van Allen and W. 

 O. Ball, of Carthage; D. C. Middle- 

 ton, Joseph Atwell. W. W. Conde and 

 Plon R. Brown, of Watertown ; C. O. 

 Roberts, of Philadelphia; T. B. Bas- 

 selin, of Croghan ; Thomas Spratt, of 

 ( (gdcnsburg, and L. P. Hale, of Can- 

 ton. 



Forests and That _ many newspaper 

 Paper Supplies proprietors are not alive 

 to the danger that 

 threatens them in the shape of a scant 

 supply of paper or already exorbitant 

 and increasing prices for that material 



was the substance of a statement made 

 recently by Lord Northcliffe (Sir Al- 

 fred Harmsworth ) , who arrived on 

 the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, of 

 of the North German line, as reported 

 by the Paper Trade. Lord Northcliffe 

 also said that through having acquired 

 a large tract of forest land in New- 

 foundland he would be able to protect 

 not only his own large interests but 

 those of a dozen of the largest news- 

 papers in the United States as well. 

 He is the proprietor of 58 newspapers 

 and periodicals. 



He said : "Broadly speaking, I con- 

 sider that newspaper owners, as a rule, 

 have not sufficiently considered the 

 great difficulties that lie ahead of them 

 in securing their paper supplies. 



"My eyes were opened to the situa- 

 tion at the time of the Boer War, 

 when the price of paper rose univer- 

 sally. From that moment I made up 

 my mind that my business should be- 

 come independent of paper shortages, 

 whether real or promoted by trusts, 

 and I have been fortunate enough to 

 secure from the Government of New- 

 foundland a vast concession of forest 

 land, sufficient, I believe, to protect 

 not only my own business, but a dozen 

 other of the largest businesses in the 

 L nited States, a concession which will. 

 I believe, also bring added prosperity 

 to that wonderful colony." 



New York 

 Forestry 



The Forest, Fish and 

 Game Commission's re- 

 cent trip through the 

 Adirondacks was most encouraging to 

 Senator Jotham P. Allds and his asso- 

 ciates, both as to the state of things in 

 Adirondack Park and the progress 

 made in scientific forestry on certain 

 of the State tracts. Colonel Fox's pol- 

 icy of encouraging reforestation by 

 transplanting young trees and by 

 planting seed is proving more and 

 more of a success as time goes on. The 

 work accomplished by the State's ex- 

 periments in the past five years has 

 been remarkably successful. 



The first plantation under the direc- 

 tion of the State was on Timothyberg 

 Mountain, in the Catskills, in 1901. 



