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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



forest schools of the same State. Many 

 of the forest schools could increase con- 

 siderably their facilities for educating 

 forest students if they received each 

 year the additional aid which such an 

 appropriation would give, and the heads 

 of a number of these schools have al- 

 ready expressed the hope that the bill 

 will pass. 



According to the third annual report 

 of E. A. Elliott, State Forester of Ore- 

 gon, the fire patrol law has proved a 

 powerful help in advancing systematic 

 forest fire protection. He said it was 

 the chief factor in more than doubling 

 the membership of the patrol associa- 

 tions organized in 1911 and 1912, and 

 besides six new associations were 

 formed last spring. 



During the year 1913 there were 383 

 forest fires on privately owned land and 

 387 in the national forests in this State, 

 but so effective were the organized for- 

 est fire fighting associations that com- 

 paratively small damage was done. 

 More damage was caused by fires 

 originating in slashings than from fires 

 of all other classes, according to the 

 report. 



The sandy tip of Cape Cod, which is 

 constantly shifting under the influence 

 of wind and tide, is to be anchored by 

 reforesting, according to an arrange- 

 ment announced by the State Harbor 

 and Land Commission and the State 

 Forestry Department of Massachu- 

 setts. The lands are known as the 

 Province lands. 



Thousands of trees of a type that will 

 not only give stability to the soil but 

 defy the ravages of the gypsy and other 

 moths will be planted this spring. 



Timberland owners of Harlan County, 

 Kentucky, have organized the Harlan 

 County Forest Protective Association 

 and the members so far enrolled repre- 

 sent about 200,000 acres. The mem- 

 bers are being assessed one-quarter of 

 a cent an acre with provision for addi- 

 tional assessments up to but not exceed- 

 ing one cent an acre if needed. State 

 Forester Barton will cooperate with the 

 Association and will divide equally all 

 fire fighting expenses. The forest fires 

 have been a serious loss and yearly 

 menace to the forests of Harlan County, 

 and the Association was badly needed. 



STATE NEWS 



Georgia 



Head Forester Graves spent the 14th of 

 April at Athens as the guest of the University 

 of Georgia. He addressed the students at 

 the Chapel in the morning. In the evening 

 he attended a banquet given by the Forest 

 Club, and talked in an informal way. 



Mr. Graves went to Atlanta from Athens, 

 to attend the convention of the Tri-State 

 Water and Light Association on the 16th 

 and 17th. 



Representatives of the Morse Land and 

 Lumber Company, the Byrd-Mathews Com- 

 pany, and the Pfister & Vogel Company met 

 at Helen the latter part of March and con- 

 ferred as to the prevention of forest fires on 

 their holdings. 



Maine 



That enormous damage has been wrought 

 to the spruce, fir, larch, hemlock and white 



pine trees of Maine forests during the past 

 year is stated in the annual report of Albert 

 K. Gardner, State horticulturist, filed with 

 the Governor. Mr. Gardner says : 



"The increase in numbers of the spruce 

 bud worm during the past three years has 

 given just cause for alarm among owners of 

 spruce, fir, larch, hemlock and white pine. 

 We are constantly receiving letters from wild 

 land owners, and owners of summer camps 

 who are dependent upon the beauty of their 

 trees for a large part of their summer busi- 

 ness, telling of the enormous damage being 

 done to the trees by this most serious pest. 

 Many islands along the coast seem to offer 

 particular inducements to the insect, and here 

 we find them especially abundant. During the 

 latter part of the past season, parasites in the 

 form of spiders have accomplished a great 

 deal in controlling them, and it is to be hoped 

 that in another year we will find that they 

 have been more or less exterminated." 



