QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 



Philadelphia. 



EDITOR AMERICAN FORESTRY. Can you 

 supply me with a copy of the works of Prof. 

 J. Franklin Collins and Howard W. Pres- 

 ton? Illustrated Key to the Wild and Com- 

 monly Cultivated Trees of the Northeastern 

 United States and Adjacent Canada, bound 

 in leaher, also identification of the Econom- 

 ic Woods of the United States, by Samuel 

 J. Record, M. A., M. F., bound in leather? 



A. J. BONSALL. 



The book to which you refer by Professors 

 Collins and Preston is listed as The Key to 

 New England Trees, Wild and Commonly 

 Cultivated, and is published at Providence, 

 R. I., by the firm of Preston and Rounds. 

 I think you can get full information in re- 

 gard to it from them. The other book, 

 Identification of the Economic Woods of 

 the United States, by Prof. Record, may be 

 obtained from Messrs. John Wiley & Sons, 

 43 East 19th Street, New York City 

 Editor. 



New Orleans, Louisiana. 



EDITOR AMERICAN FORESTRY. Insects are 

 injuring my fine ash tiees by boring into 

 them. I inclose description. Will you kindly 

 tell me what to do? 



JOHN B. FERGUSON. 



"In the absence of specimens of the in- 

 sect which is injurious to the ash trees, I 

 am unable to name the species. There are 

 two insects which are injurious to ash by 

 boring through the bark and into the heart- 

 wood, and I judge from the description 

 which you give that the species concerned 

 is probably the lilac borer (Podosesia 

 svringae.) The remedies to apply are prac- 

 tically the same as for the leopard moth, 

 considered in Circular 109, which will be 

 ordered sent to you bv the Division of Pub- 

 lications. If you are in doubt about the 

 species I would advise that you send living 

 specimens, if possible. I inclose franlfc and 

 franked envelope to be used without post- 

 age in accordance with directions given in 

 the inclosed circular letter. I am not quite 

 certain that the soecies I have mentioned 

 occurs as far southward as New Orleans, 

 hence the advisability of obtaining speci- 



mens. 



F. H. CRITTENDEN, 

 Bureau of Entomology. 



New York City, 



EDITOR AMERICAN FORESTRY. The Legis- 

 lative Drafting Department, attached to 

 Columbia University, is at present investi- 

 gating the question of restrictive legislation 

 for the preservation of forests in New York 

 where the maintenance is necessary for the 

 protection of . mountain sides, or for the 

 existence of springs and streams, or for the 

 prevention of erosion or floods. We should 



greatly appreciate your assistance if you 

 could give us any information concerning, 

 or direct us to, any such or similar legisla- 

 tion that has been proposed, or recom- 

 mended, or already enacted in any of the 

 states. 



LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING RESEARCH FUND. 



"The question raised by this request is 

 almost as broad as the whole subject of 

 forest legislation, for the various reforesta- 

 tion acts and fire protective measures of 

 whatever sort have for their purpose the pro- 

 tection of soil from erosion, prevention of 

 floods, and the like, though they do not ex- 

 press it in so many words. The nearest 

 approach to restrictive legislation of this 

 sort would be those laws concerning the es- 

 tablishment and management of state or 

 federal forest reserves such as have been 

 passed by Massachusetts, New York. Penn- 

 sylvania, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and the 

 Federal Acts of June 4, 1897; May 23, 1908 

 and March 1, 1911, to mention the principal 

 ones. So far as restrictive legislation, which 

 applies to all forest lands, private as well as 

 state, no state has as yet such a law on 

 its statute books, although legislation of this 

 character has at different times been under 

 consideration in the States of Vermont, New 

 York. Mississippi, Louisiana, and California. 

 I will call your attention in this connection 

 to an opinion submitted to the Senate of 

 Maine by the Supreme Judicial Court of 

 Maine on March 10, 1908 (103 Maine, 506), 

 upon certain questions concerning the power 

 of the Legislature to restrict and regulate 

 the cutting of trees on wild or uncultivated 

 land by the owner thereof, in order to regu- 

 late waterflow, in the interest of the general 

 public. While the opinion of the court was 

 favorable, no action, so far as I know, has 

 resulted. Messrs. Gifford Pinchot and 

 Overton W. Price have recently completed 

 a very careful study of the forest conditions 

 in the Adirondack^ for the "Camp Fire 

 Club." and in connection therewith went 

 into the subject of restrictive legislation 

 very thoroughly. I would therefore sug- 

 gest that you consult them concerning fur- 

 ther data. 



I would . suggest that th* Forest Service 

 is engaged in making a compilation of the 

 forestry, timber and tree laws of all the 

 states and that copies for such states as 

 are now available or whicn may become so 

 from time to time in the future will gladly 

 be supplied them, provided they should have 

 a special need for such a. compilation. The 

 number of copies for each state are only 

 so many as can be made by one set of car- 

 bons on the typewriter. Their distribution 

 has therefore generally been limited within 

 the state to which they applied, and they 

 are usually sent only to such persons or 



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