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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



on it 2 years all Reddy, 'can she go 

 With me & still hold her Home-stead,? 

 she has all-Reddy lived on it 23 months 

 studdy Everry Day ; and is that Forast- 

 Ranging a souitible Place to take a 

 Wommon. 



"Do you think the Job Wood last 3 

 or 4 years if I souited. how much Do 

 you Pay a month, and Do I Board my 

 self Or Dos the Goverrement Furnish 

 my suplys? Do I Furnish my Own 

 hors? is there a little hosuse on "or 

 around the Place Where I Wood make 

 it my head-quarters.? You see I am 

 Green at the Job now, But I think in a 

 week after I got there I Wood no all 

 about it, Pleas Rite and give me all of 

 the infermation about it, there is 2 

 more single men hear in my Neighbor- 

 hood Wood go to if they under-stood 

 Just What kind of a Job it Was, yours 

 sincearley" 



as Peridermium pyriforme. It seems 

 evident, therefore, that the western 

 yellow pine trees in question became 

 infected from sweet fern in the neigh- 

 borhood, and, never having been ex- 

 posed to the disease, might readily 

 prove more susceptible to it than the 

 native species. The disease is referred 

 to in the item in the American Lumber- 

 man as "Peridermium fusiform," a quite 

 distinct disease which was not found 

 by the Office of Forest Pathology in its 

 examination. Even if this disease is 

 present among the yellow pine, how- 

 ever, it could hardly have been intro- 

 duced by the Government, since, so far 

 as the records in this office show, no 

 trees have ever been furnished to the 

 State by the Forest Service and the 

 disease is not one which could be 

 transmitted through the medium of seed. 



James A. Conners, of James W. 

 Sewall's office, Old Town, Maine, has 

 taken a crew of men into northern 

 Aroostook County, Maine, on a detailed 

 township survey and timber estimate. 

 Mr. O. W. Madden, of the same office, 

 is cutting about a million feet of lumber 

 for Mr. Sewall on the Passadumkeag 

 River watershed. 



Exception is taken by Bristow Adams, 

 editor of the Forest Service, to a state- 

 ment in the American Lumberman for 

 September 19 that a disease which has 

 attacked trees in Michigan is thought 

 to have gotten into Michigan through 

 seedlings sent by the National Govern- 

 ment. Mr. Adams said this statement 

 is not warranted by the facts in the case. 



' ' Diseased specimens of western yellow 

 pine," he says, "were submitted last 

 spring for examination by the Office of 

 Investigations in Forest Pathology in 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry. The 

 trees were said to have been grown at 

 the Higgins Lake Nursery from seed 

 obtained from the West and were found 

 to be affected with the fungus disease 

 Cronartium comptoniae. This is a well 

 known eastern fungus which passes one 

 of its stages on the sweet fern. In its 

 stage on the pine it has also been known 



The annual meeting of the Western 

 Forestry and Conservation Association, 

 the established conference of all Pacific 

 Coast protective organizations and the 

 most important yearly gathering of 

 timber owners in the United States or 

 Canada, will be held in Tacoma this 

 year, December 7 and 8. The fire pro- 

 tection part of the program will abandon 

 the general topics so thoroughly covered 

 in the past and deal only with important 

 needs disclosed by the past season; the 

 chief of which seem to be a better sys- 

 tem for financing emergency expenses, 

 perfecting state policies and legislation, 

 requirements for continuation of Weeks 

 Law funds, and utilizing fire wind fore- 

 casts in the most practicable manner. 

 A study of timber insurance possibilities 

 will be reported. While what is really 

 new and important in fire work must 

 not be neglected, it has been decided 

 that at this time such an important 

 gathering should devote much of its 

 time to other matters of pressing 

 interest. With the proper officials 

 present to give us authentic informa- 

 tion, there will be discussion of the new 

 Government study of the lumber in- 

 dustry, the Trades Commission bill, 

 Forester Graves' new plan for capitaliz- 

 ing national forest resources to assist 

 state road building, and taxation amend- 



