EDITORIAL 



533 



that damage by floods and erosion will 

 likely cost the State hundreds of thou- 

 sands of dollars a year. 



With these facts before them and 

 with the knowledge that the protection 

 of its vast extent of timber is undoubt- 

 edly one of the foremost concerns of the 

 State, the Commissioners are cheered 

 by the knowledge that the appropriation 

 available for the general purposes of 

 the Commission is much greater for 

 the present fiscal year than it has been 

 before. This being the case, it appears 

 that one of the first duties of the Com- 



mission should be to establish a State 

 department of forestry so that special 

 attention may be given to the State's 

 timbered land. Fortunately, the mem- 

 bers of the commission M. L. Alexan- 

 der, J. A. Dayries and E. T. Leche are 

 broad-minded, wide-awake men who 

 see the necessity for forest conservation 

 and who will doubtless do all that they 

 can to protect the forests of the State. 

 It is to be hoped that soon will come the 

 announcement that the forests have 

 been placed under the management of a 

 special forestry department. 



IT IS gratifying to every supporter nent for the reason that practically half 



of forest conservation to know of of all the timber cut in the United 



such a broad-minded expression of States in 1913 was cut in these southern 



opinion by W. B. Townsend, of States. 



Townsend, Tenn., a lumberman, who in A ' nec essary item that should 



a paper written for the meeting of the not be overloo ked is that of eliminating 



North Carolina Forestry Association at - i-,- r .* 



Asheville, N. C, on June 10, said: \ olltics * rom the ^ conservation of 

 "I am mightily interested in what I thls timber crop With an appropria- 

 call an 'Imperial Domain' the Great tlon of sufficient funds for fire protec- 

 Appalachians and their timber, compris- tlon and these funds properly admims- 

 ing, I am told, more than 235 million tered the perpetuity of this great Indus- 

 acres, extending from Maryland to try will be insured. 

 Texas, including Arkansas, Oklahoma "I am, as stated, mightily interested 

 and Missouri. This domain is consid- and it seems to me that all of us should 

 erably larger than all of the New Eng- be interested in seeing this timber con- 

 land States, combined with New York, served, manufactured and marketed in 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana an intelligent manner; not in a manner 

 and Wisconsin, comprising not only attempted by one of our northern 

 nearly half of the remaining timber sup- States, where not even the mature and 

 ply of the United States, but by far the ripe timber is permitted to be cut, but 

 most valuable kind. This means that allowed to go to waste. What we man- 

 through a spirit of conservation this ufacture should be manufactured and 

 immense supply of timber and the marketed in a manner whereby it will 

 proper marketing of it is brought more be profitable to the community and of 

 and more to the attention of those advantage to the consumer and with a 

 directly and financially interested, and reasonable and proper compensation for 

 that by proper management and wise the poor fellow who has the hard 

 use this source of wealth to the South knocks to contend with. Let us not lose 

 can be made to yield perpetually an sight of the fact that the, logger and the 

 income, which, in importance and size, lumberman are, as a rule, in the strictest 

 is second only to the South's cotton sense of the term, the real pioneers of 

 crop. This feature is especially perti- the community in which they operate." 



Peeling Pulp Wood. 



James W. Sewall, of Old Town, Maine, has a crew of men employed in peeling pulp 

 wood at Lowell, Maine. 



