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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Florida 



Several thousand camphor trees have 

 recently been planted by the officials in charge 

 of the East Bay Florida ranger station at 

 the forest nursery located there and accord- 

 ing to the statement of Forest Supervisor 

 Eldridge, the indications are that this valu- 

 able tree will do well in this forest which 

 will prove much to this section of the state 



lf Las S t year'T few hundred of these trees 

 were planted in the nursery at East Bay 

 and Mr. Eldridge says they have shown 

 themselves well adapted to that section, and 

 it was principally due to the apparent suc- 

 cess of this first experiment that the gov- 

 ernment decided to try the experiment on a 

 larger scale and had the planting done this 



year. 



The government has maintained an ex- 

 perimental planting station for the camphor 

 tree near Lake City for the past four or 

 five years and the experiments conducted 

 there have met with such success that efforts 



are being made on the part of the govern- 

 ment to induce private capital and individuals 

 to undertake crowing them on a commercial 

 basis. 



Indiana 



In his annual report, C. C. Beam, Secretary 

 of the Illinois State Board of Forestry, 

 recommends that the state purchase such 

 lands as will not permanently support agri- 

 culture and devote them to scientific for- 

 estry. This is the only solution of the pro- 

 blem the board of forestry has to suggest. 



The principal argument for such a plan 

 advanced in the report is that the state will 

 never be reforested by anv other means. 

 There are thousands of acres of eroded hill- 

 sides and worn-out fields in the state which 

 should be planted to forest trees, it _says. 

 But investigation shows that in a majority 

 of cases the owners of these lands are too 

 poor to bear the expense of reforesting, so 

 that the matter is neglected and conditions 

 annually become worse. 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Mr. Graves' Report 



Henry S. Graves, United States Forester, 

 in his recently issued report, says of the co- 

 operation with states and private timber- 

 land owners : 



"The most important work of the year 

 was in pursuance of Section 2 of the Weeks 

 law, which appropriated $2,000,000 for co- 

 operation with the states in protecting the 

 forested watersheds of navigable streams 

 from fire. Such cooperation is extended only 

 to states which have provided by law_ for 

 forest-fire protection and have appropriated 

 funds for that purpose. The amount ex- 

 pended by each state must at least equal 

 that spent by the Federal Government. Prior 

 to July 1 agreements were entered into by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture, specifying as 

 the maximum amounts to be _spent by the 

 Government during the remainder of the 

 calendar year, if needed, the following: In 

 New Hampshire, $7,200; in Minnesota, $10,- 

 000; in New Jersey, $1,000' in Wisconsin, 

 $5,000; in Maine, $10,000, and in Vermont, 

 $2,000. After the close of the fiscal _year 

 similar agreements were concluded providing 

 for a maximum expenditure of $1,000 in 

 Connecticut, $5,000 in Oregon, $600 in Mary- 

 land, $1,800 in Massachusetts, and $2,000 in 

 New York. 



"The Federal funds were to be expended 

 in each instance for the salaries of patrol- 

 men exclusively. Cooperative agreements 

 were entered into only after the State had 

 submitted a fire plan and a ma^ showing 

 in detail the number and location of the 

 protective force to be employed, the location 

 of telephone lines, lookout towers and other 

 structures forming a part of the protective 

 system, the amount of State funds to be 



expended for various features of the pro- 

 tective system, and how the Federal moneys 

 allotted to the state would be used to sup- 

 plement state expenditures. The agreements 

 provide for inspection, by officers^ of the 

 service, of the operation and efficiency of 

 the cooperative protective system. 



"Past experience in examining woodlots 

 and privately owned timber tracts has shown 

 that the methods of forestry recommended 

 are actually put into effect in far too small 

 a percentage of cases. While the educa- 

 tional value of the cases where forestry is 

 practised is very great, it is important to 

 increase their number. An attempt to _ do 

 this is now made by giving greater attention, 

 in the investigation made and reports sub- 

 mitted to owners, to the pecuniary advantages 

 of good over poor methods of management, 

 and by studies of market conditions in order 

 to show owners how best to dispose of the 

 products of their woodlands. Primary con- 

 sideration is given to the applications and 

 needs of small owners, since they are more 

 disposed as a rule to put the methods recom- 

 mended into operation. 



"As the number of state and private for- 

 esters increases, cooperation with private 

 owners is being gradually restricted. The 

 needs of applicants from states in which 

 it is still difficult to secure expert informa- 

 tion and advice are, however, so far as 

 possible, provided for. Examinations of_ a 

 single woodlot in a locality are not ordinarily 

 made. Instead the interest of several owners 

 in a community is sought by informing ap- 

 plicants that a field examination will be 

 made upon a joint application signed bv a 

 number of owners in the same locality. The 

 cost of such examinations is shared bv the 

 owners, on an acreage basis. In connection 



