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drafted for Alabama in 1907, if I remember 

 the year correctly. Similar laws have been 

 drafted and enacted in Maryland and Ten- 

 nessee, and you could probably secure the 

 text by writing to the proper authorities 

 in those States. I think the same is true 

 in Louisiana. The New York State Library 

 published for many years an annual bulletin 

 entitled 'Review of State Legislation.' The 

 Review was arranged by subjects among 

 which was Forestry and, I think. Fish and 

 Game as well as other phases of conserva- 

 tion. Under each of these topics there was 

 a summary of the legislation in all States on 

 that topic for the year in question. You will 

 find this a valuable guide for your purposes. 

 Presumably the text of the laws there sum- 

 marized may be found in your State Library." 

 Library." 



Pacific Logging Congress 



At a recent meeting of the Pacific Log- 

 ging Congress at Tacoma, Wash., the fol- 

 lowing resolutions were passed : 



"The Congress believes that the growing 

 of timber is a National and State function 

 and each state should make a careful ex- 

 amination of its cut-over lands unfit for 

 agricultural purposes and better adapted for 

 reforestation, with a view of purchase 

 through condemnation or otherwise, and 

 proceed to the creation of State and Na- 

 tional forests. 



"The Pacific Logging Congress believes in 

 the expenditure by the various states and 

 provinces of liberal and adequate appropri- 

 ation for forest fire protection. To this 

 end we endorse the efforts being made for 

 the creation of field military posts near the 

 National forests, with a view of utilizing 

 the National troops when emergencies arise 

 in the protection of the National forests 

 from fire." 



Railroad Reforesting. 



The Delaware & Hudson Railroad has now 

 taken up the problem of reforestation. C. 

 S. Sims, Vice-President and General Man- 

 ager of the company, is devoting much of 

 his personal attention to reforesting the 

 lands owned by the company throughout the 

 Adirondacks and the coal region. The Dela- 

 ware & Hudson Company has a well estab- 

 lished nursery on the grounds near Hotel 

 Champlain, and more than 3,000,000 seedlings 

 are being cultivated there. The company 



owns 200,000 acres of land in the Adiron- 

 dacks and coal region, which are in proc- 

 ess of planting with trees. More than 

 600,000 trees will be planted this year. In 

 the Adirondacks Scotch pine will be planted, 

 and in the coal region red oak. 



This extensive work conducted by the 

 Delaware & Hudson Company will not only 

 have the practical effect of immediate ad- 

 vantage but also has much educational force 

 as an example to be imitated. With large 

 corporations leading the way in this man- 

 ner, and with the rising generation instructed 

 through textbooks and the object lessons of 

 Arbor Day, there should be a great impulse 

 given to that very vital and essential phase 

 of conservation of natural resources which 

 is represented by the planting of new trees 

 to take the place of those which have been 

 consumed by the needs of a growing 

 country. 



Enforcing Plant Quarantine. 



Preparations are being made by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture for the immediate 

 enforcement of a part of the national plant 

 quarantine law just passed by Congress. The 

 bulk of the provisions of this quarantine law 

 will not be enforced until October 1, but pro- 

 vision is made for the immediate enforce- 

 ment of the restriction against the importa- 

 tion of plants liable to harbor the 

 Meditteranean fruit fly. This will affect 

 the importation of orange and lemon stock 

 from the Mediterranean region. 



The United States until recently was the 

 only first-class power that had not a national 

 plant quarantine law, and efforts have been 

 made by the Department of Agriculture for 

 several years to get such a law enacted. Sev- 

 eral of the individual states have effective 

 quarantine laws and efficient inspectors, and 

 through co-operation it has been possible to 

 head off a number of plant shipments that 

 would have been highly injurious. About 

 two years ago there was a large shipment of 

 nursery stock from France that was infested 

 with nests of the brown-tailed moth. 

 Through the State inspectors 800 parcels 

 were found and destroyed in thirty-six dif- 

 ferent States. The enforcement of the new 

 law will be under a commission of five ex- 

 perts of the Department of Agriculture, who 

 were appointed recently. 



They are C. L- Warlatt and A. F. Burgess, 

 cf the bureau of entomology; W. A. Orton, 

 plant pathologist; Peter Bisset, bureau of 

 plant introduction, and George Sudworth, of 

 the forest service. 



