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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



December 



serve. Headquarters for a nursery 

 and station will probably be estab- 

 lished on Santa Fe Creek, about six 

 miles from Santa Fe, on the Amanda 

 Boardman ranch, which the president 

 of the Santa Fe Water and Light Com- 

 pany has offered to purchase and place 

 at the disposal of the Government for 

 nursery purposes. 



About 50,000 seedlings from the 

 Henninger's Flat nursery will be plant- 

 ed by rangers in the San Gabriel and 

 San Bernardino reserves as soon as 

 the rainy season begins. Rangers will 

 receive about 1,500 trees each, with 

 instructions for planting them in fa- 

 vorable situations in their districts. In 

 this way the seedling output will be 

 increased at slight expense and a large 

 number of experimental plantations 

 will be started throughout the reserves. 



Work on the new station building 

 at the Halsey station is progressing 

 rapidly. It is expected that the build- 

 ing, which is to be a 1 ^2-story concrete 

 block structure, will be completed dur- 

 ing the winter. 



As part of the new record-keeping 

 system for the planting stations a set 

 of cards has been issued covering "seed 

 sowing," "seedlings," "transplants," 

 "field planting," "field plantations." 

 The cards, which give a complete rec- 

 ord of nursery and planting operations, 

 seedlings on hand, and condition of 

 plantations, are to be filled out in du- 

 plicate on May 15 and November 1 

 each year. One set is to be sent to 

 Washington and the other retained 

 for the station files. 



An examination of the lands of the 

 Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com- 

 pany in Monroe, Carbon, and Schuy- 

 kill counties, Pa., has been completed 

 by A. S. Peck. These comprise four 

 separate tracts of about 60,000 acres 

 and offer an interesting variety of 

 forest conditions. 



The Monroe county lands are held 

 to protect the headwaters of the Le- 

 high River. Most of this region has 

 been denuded of merchantable species, 

 so that forest planting is necessary, 

 and in order to make this practicable 

 the fire danger must be reduced. The 



planting plan for about 1,100 acres in 

 the vicinity of Tobyhanna, Pa., already 

 submitted to the company, provides 

 for the planting of Scotch pine, short- 

 leaf pine, red pine, pitch pine, white 

 pine, European larch, Norway spruce, 

 tamarack, and red oak, with a view to 

 demonstrating the best treatment for 

 the remainder of the lands in this re- 

 gion. Its recommendations include a 

 fire patrol, the clearing of fire lines, the 

 use of old roads in fire fighting, and 

 the building of a watch tower. 



The Carbon county and Schuykill 

 county lands are naturally favorable 

 for chestnut, red oak, European larch, 

 and Scotch pine. The demand for tim- 

 ber of all sizes for use in the mines 

 will make forest planting profitable, 

 provided that fire is prevented. A re- 

 port will be submitted later recom- 

 mending planting for a small typical 

 area capable of being protected from 

 fire at slight expense. It will be ad- 

 vised that a forester be employed to 

 have full charge of this tract and to 

 assist the superintendent of the Mon- 

 roe county lands, who has himself had 

 some training in practical forestry. 



The study of tree planting in agri- 

 cultural regions in California, in co- 

 operation with the state, is practically 

 completed. S. J. Flintham, who has 

 been engaged in this work, is now pre- 

 paring a report on eucalyptus planting, 

 which is part of the general planting 

 study, and before returning to Wash- 

 ington will secure the additional data 

 needed for a report on planting on 

 nonagricultural lands. 



A series of experiments 

 Forest r . 



Products are now ln progress at 



Escanaba, Mich., to fur- 

 ther test the open-tank method for 

 treating telephone poles. Arborvitae 

 poles are now being tried to supple- 

 ment last year's tests on chestnut and 

 white cedar. An average penetration 

 of three-fourths of an inch, with a 

 maximum of over an inch, has already 

 been secured on the arborvitae. 



Brush treatments with carbolineum 

 and creosote are also being tried on 

 the arborvitae poles. At the comple- 



