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an owner's timber is destroyed by fire, year and the duty of the delegates is 



he would not lose the accumulated obvious. The Constitution should be 



taxes as under the present system. amended so that the Legislature may 



There would be many problems of take up this problem of forest taxation 

 administration to work out and there and through suitable legislation give re- 

 are practical difficulties which would be lief to those who would practice fores- 

 almost insurmountable if a deferred try by starting new forests and putting 

 yield tax system were to apply at once under better management those which 

 to all standing timber. This is out of are now under way. 

 the question. Such a system must be The State of Massachusetts has al- 

 introduced gradually and apply only to ready taken up the problem by passing 

 young forests or those just established, a resolution through its legislature in 

 At first it should perhaps be applied 1911 and again in 1912, according to 

 only at the option of the owner. law and preliminary to amending the 



The system would call for a separate State Constitution so as to permit a 

 classification of land which is at pres- separate classification of forest lands 

 ent impossible under the constitution of if the legislature so chooses. The pro- 

 New Hampshire. A constitutional con- posed amendment will now be sub- 

 vention is to be held in Concord this mitted to the voters of the State. 



CHESTNUT BLIGHT WARNING 



following warning to timber "If the people of that part of the 



owners has been issued by the State co-operate with the Blight Com- 



Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree mission, by felling the infected trees 



Blight Commission : and destroying the diseased bark and 



"With the advent of Spring, the de- brush, its further spread may be con- 



velopment and spread of the chestnut trolled. All trees showing infections, 



bark disease is especially noticeable, no matter how slight, should be re- 



and unless owners learn how to recog- moved at once and every particle of the 



nize the pest, and promptly remove all diseased bark must be destroyed. This 



cases of the blight, it is safe to pre- is the most practical and effective 



diet that our native chestnut trees will method of treating infected trees at 



be doomed to extermination. In the the present time, and especially in 



counties east of the Susquehanna river, sporadic cases. So far, no spray or 



in Pennsylvania, the conditions are re- application has been discovered that 



garded as exceedingly unfavorable and will remove or cure the disease, al- 



almost hopeless, but west of the river though there, is no lack of remedies 



the outlook for saving the chestnut is suggested by experimenters.'' 

 far more encouraging. 



YALE BUYS FOREST. 



Director Tourney, of the Yale Forest School, today announced that a pine forest, as an 

 adjunct to the teaching of silviculture and forest operations, has been secured in the best* 

 white pine region of southern New Hampshire. 



OPEN CHICAGO OFFICE. 



Munsen-Whitaker Co., foresters of New York City, announce the opening of a Chicago 

 office in charge of H. S. Sackett, formerly Chief of the office of Wood Utilisation of the 

 United States Forest Service at 512 Commercial National Bank Building, Chicago. 



