

AMERICAN FORESTRY 



This 



i 

 the culmma,,on of 



will be started to learn what 

 in stern Ore- 



8i Thets? will be a gigantic one. An aver- 



of 1 000 trees will be planted on eac 

 afre, which ^eans 20,000 000 trees^Yelow 

 pine and Douglass fi r will be the sp nes m 



interior. 



Indiana 



j 



Qf 



, has just completed the 



reach that growth, 



effect of the new forests will be seen 

 few years The trees and other vegeta- 



fhTcentra body toward preserving the for- 



interest in the care preservation and growth 

 of fruit trees, will form a valuable aid to 



nh the "dry" months 

 ThT, forestry diSrTc collected last year 

 ounds of P ne and fir seeds in pre- 

 for this and other reforesting ven- 

 Uires Each pound represents approximately 

 a bushel of cones and costs about $1. 



California 



The Federal Department of Forestry lo- 

 cated at Los Angeles has begun the work of 

 reforestation on the southern California na- 

 tional reserve. This is under way in the 

 Santa Ana canyon near Seven Oaks. At 

 that point 40,000 conifers, hardy varieties of 

 pine fir and redwood will be planted. 



San Diego is perhaps the first of Ameri- 

 can cities to inaugurate a great forestry en- 

 terprise in the expectation of speedily de- 

 creasing the rate of taxation and possibly of 

 ultimately relieving the citizens of all pay- 

 ment of taxes for the support of the city 

 government. The city owns 7,000 acres of 

 land, which up to the present time has been 

 iiiilM-'.ductive. Forty thousand seedings of 

 the eucalyptus tree have been set out. The 

 city officials expect when the forest is twenty- 

 five years old it will yield $175 worth of 

 timber per acre annually. That means 

 $1,225,000 a year. With expenses deducted, 

 this will leave a profit which will go far 

 toward reducing the burder of taxation. 



Plantations of useful trees are to be es- 

 i;1)lished in Eastern Oregon in the districts 

 where the settlers are finding need for nearby 

 fuel supply and timber for fence posts. The 

 State Forestry, in connection with the For- 

 estry Department of the State Agricultural 

 College, will carry on experiments to learn 

 bee-planting possibilities. 



, former Vice-President 



Fairbanks and other leading men of Indiana 

 are members of the forestry association and 

 have volunteered their services in any county 

 where auxiliary branches are being formed 

 whenever they can spare the time. 



Ohio 



The city of Cleveland has now almost com- 

 pleted a campaign of tree planting which wil 

 a dd 2,000 trees to the 150,000 which help to 

 make Cleveland the Forest City. 



City Forester Rettig's chief work has 

 been ridding the city streets of the poplars. 



Every opportunity has been seized to de- 

 stroy them and replace them with elms, 

 maples or sycamores. The 2,000 trees planted 

 this fall and winter take the place of the 

 poplar. 



Forester Rettig's conservation plans in- 

 elude the adoption of some of the forestry 

 methods in use in Germany and England. 

 With these methods Cleveland could have 

 trees even where grass and good soil are now 



unknown, Rettig says. 



"They take care of their trees in European 



cities," said Rettig. "We are doing all we 

 can here, but they are ahead of us in some 

 things, especially in planting. We are as far 

 in advance in Cleveland in spraying and 

 otherwise treating trees as they are in 

 Europe." 



The local forestry department bought trees 

 for the first time this fall by competitive 

 bidding. The result was a better class of 

 young trees at a cheaper price. The 2,000 

 now being planted cost the city from 75 cents 

 to $1 apiece. 



Forester Rettig looks for Cleveland to re- 

 tain her title of the Forest City despite the 

 continued growth of industries and the con- 

 sequent smoke-laden air so harmful to tree 

 life. 



