STATE NEWS 



Pennsylvania 



Pennsylvania's methods in fighting the San 

 Jose scale, the codling moth and other ene- 

 mies of fruit trees, have attracted the at- 

 tention of two of the Southern states in 

 which commercial orchards are being de- 

 veloped. The system adopted has been 

 imitated in others, but now word has been 

 received that men are coming here to see 

 how trees are handled. 



An incorporated concern which is working 

 under the direction of Virginia's State 

 Bureau of Economic Zoology, has asked 

 State Zoologist Surface if he can provide 

 demonstrations for men who have been de- 

 tailed to come to Pennsylvania to observe. 



Dr. W. E. Hinds, State Entomologist of 

 Alabama, has written to Dr. Surface asking 

 for an outline of his division's work and 

 for instructions such as are given to the 

 orchard workers. 



The Maryland State authorities have also 

 highly commended the Pennsylvania system. 

 This State held twenty-six demonstrations 

 for the killing of scale and moth last year 

 along the same lines as the 900 that are 

 held in this State. 



New York 



A public hearing was held by the Forest, 

 Fish and Game Committees of the Senate and 

 Assembly on the bill to amend the Conserva- 

 tion Law relating to Lands and Forests, Feb- 

 ruary 20 and 21. The greatest public interest 

 has been manifested in the reforestation pol- 

 icy of Governor Dix and the Conservation 

 Commission, since it promises to restore the 

 forest areas of the state to an extent re- 

 quired by the industrial, commercial, sani- 

 tary and recreation needs of a rapidly in- 

 creasing population. The people are astound- 

 ed to learn that there are about 2,300,000 

 acres, eight per cent of the State's total area, 

 which now have no profitable growth. All 

 this is virtually idle soil and should be planted 

 to forest, for which it is best adapted. 



The Conservation Commission's bill, now 

 before the Legislature, seeks not only to en- 

 large the state's authority with reference to 

 the reforestation of public lands, but also 

 aims to encourage tree planting by private 

 land owners. 



There are several important changes in the 

 forestry law proposed by this bill, but the 

 two most progressive features undoubtedly 

 are those relating to the regulation of timber 

 cutting on certain private lands, and to afford 

 taxation relief to the owner who reforests 

 denuded or idle soil. 



North Carolina 



Through the efforts of the North Carolina 

 Forestry Association, which was organized 



last February with the specific object of 

 "promoting the protection of the forests of 

 North Carolina from fire and from de- 

 structive insects, and of promoting their per- 

 petuation by wise use and by the reforestation 

 of cutover and abandoned lands," two county 

 associations were organized last fall to take 

 up and encourage the work of control of the 

 southern pine beetle, which has latterly be- 

 come so alarmingly prevalent through the 

 South Atlantic states. 



With the assistance of The Greater Char- 

 lotte Club, a meeting was held in Charlotte on 

 November 24, at which Messrs. E. B. Mason 

 and F. B. Snyder, of the U. S. Division of 

 Forest Insect Investigations ; Mr. J. S. 

 Holmes, State Forester and Secretary of the 

 North Carolina Forestry Association ; Mr. 

 W. S. Lee, a Vice President of this Associa- 

 tion ; and several other local men made ad- 

 dresses. The result was the organization of 

 the Mecklenburg Pine Beetle Association, to 

 assist the farmers and other timberland own- 

 ers in carrying out the methods of control 

 recommended by the U. S. Bureau of Ento- 

 mology. The following men were elected offi- 

 cers : Messrs. W. S. Pharr, president; Sum- 

 mers Alexander, first vice president; W. S. 

 Abernethy, second vice president; and Rufus 

 M. Johnston, secretary and treasurer. 



It was suggested at this meeting that Mr. 

 E. T. Clark, county demonstrator for the U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, be secured to 

 mark the trees for cutting at the various 

 places through the county where control 

 operations were to be carried out. Subse- 

 quent negotiations have resulted in the per- 

 mission of the Department for Mr. Clark to 

 do this work. 



Two weeks later a similar meeting was 

 held in the adioining county of Gaston, at 

 which the two above-named entomologists, 

 Messrs. Mason and Snyder, and also the State 

 Forester, were present. The meeting organ- 

 ized itself into The Gaston Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, the chief object of which was stated 

 to be the control of the southern pine beetle 

 as advvocated by the U. S. Bureau of Ento- 

 mology. Its secondary, though more perma- 

 nent object, is to support all forestry move- 

 ments of local interest and value and to co- 

 operate in every possible way with the State 

 Forestry Association. Mr. A. C. Stroup a 

 vice president of the North Carolina Forestry 

 Association was chairman of the meeting 

 and was elected secretary of the county asso- 

 ciation. The other officers were : W. W. 

 Parries president ; R. N. Johnson, first vice 

 president ; and J. F. McCarver, second vice 

 president. 



New Jersey 



The United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture has notified the New Jersey State For- 



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