FORESTRY AND FOREST RESOURCES IN NEW YORK 701 



lumber as the size of the tree will per- shortage of native timber and stumpage 



mit. The timber will be grown in the will be a great deal more valuable than 



shortest possible time. at the present time. Bearing this in 



If we do not care to plant, and it mind, it is possible to do a great deal 



really is not necessary in many places, now that the present market conditions 



the practice of good sane forestry will do not warrant. 



cut our crop in such a manner that the Aside from the Adirondack and Cats- 

 resulting conditions will be the best kill regions there is a big opening for 

 possible for the future crop. It will forestry in connection with farms and 

 reproduce our stand to the species which in the establishment of communal for- 

 are the most valuable and it will de- ests. There are over 4,000,000 acres 

 termine just when our crops should be in farm wood lots and 2,000,000 acres 

 cut in order to yield the greatest finan- of unimproved farm land in New York 

 cial return. It would also take into State. A great deal of this must re- 

 consideration the market conditions, main under forest cover and where the 

 For example, a practice of forestry wood lots of the State are earning from 

 would not allow the cutting into cord- 25 to 50 cents per acre per annum they 

 wood or acid wood such trees as might will furnish a net revenue under inten- 

 be sawn into $60 lumber. sive management of $4 to $5 per acre. 



In fact forestry means nothing more To sum up, a proper regard for the 



nor less than getting the greatest yield principles of forestry will keep our 



from a tract of woodland in the shortest forest cover intact or practically so, it 



time at the least expense. will do away with fire and will there- 



From a forestry standpoint condi- fore make our hill and mountain sides 



tions over the greater part of the Adi- the much needed reservoirs for our 



rondacks are very poor. As Gifford streams and thereby save the country 



Pinchot said recently, "Forestry is prac- from the waste of floods and insure the 



ticed everywhere in New York State maximum amount of power to our in- 



except in the woods." There are some dustries, as well as furnish them a 



exceptions to this, of course, but in the maximum supply of wood, 

 main it is very true. 



A crop started now would hardly be ^Extracts from a recent bulletin issued by 



mature by the time there is a serious the New York Conservation Commission. 



AFFORESTATION IN SOUTH MANCHURIA 



Saplings of pine and acacia trees were transplanted by hundreds of thousands last year 

 on the bare hillsides extending from Sungshottshan to East Chikuanshan, Port Arthur. The 

 civil government office has decided to transplant over 800,000 saplings of scrub oak, pine, and 

 acacia in an area of about 360,000 tsubo (about 295 acres) on the same hillsides next year. 

 This will complete the afforestation program for the range of hills running in the shape of a 

 crescent along the northeast of the fortress town. 



FORESTS IN CHILE 



The Chilean Congress is seriously discussing a revision of the forestry laws of that 

 country with a view to preserving the large area of forests now t e ^<", a **!fj%. 

 creasing them in the arid portions of the country north of Valparaiso During the past few 

 years large areas of forest lands h ^en cleared for agricultural pun 



forests of Chile contain fc " of very useful timber, am, <''" bci "9 





makes about the best light lumber produced in the country. 



