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Hampshire Comity. 



Amherst, general. 



Belchertown, scattering. 



Easthampton, scattering. 



Granby, scattering. 



Hadley, very bad, 50 per cent, or more. 



Hatfield, general. 

 Huntington, general. 

 Northampton, general. 

 Pelham, scattering. 

 South Hadley, scattering. 



Brimfield, scattering. 

 Chester, general. 

 Chicopee, general. 

 Holyoke, general. 

 Longmeadow, general. 

 Montgomery, general. 



Hampden County. 



Palmer, scattering. 

 Russell, general. 

 Springfield, general. 

 Westfield, general. 

 West Springfield, general. 

 Wilbraham, general. 



Athol, general. 

 Auburn, scattering. 

 Barre, scattering. 

 Dana, scattering. 

 Dudley, scattering. 

 Grafton, scattering. 

 Harvard, scattering. 

 Hard wick, 12 trees. 

 Leicester, three trees seen. 



Worcester County. 



Millbury, scattering. 

 New Salem, four trees. 

 Northbridge, scattering. 

 Petersham, general. 

 Shrewsbury, general. 

 Southborough, one tree found. 

 Sutton, scattering. 

 Uxbridge. 



Middlesex County. 

 Bedford, one tree. I Marlborough, one or two trees found. 



Fraraingham, a few trees found. | Way land, a few trees found. 



Canton, two trees found. 

 Dedham, one tree found. 



Norfolk County. 



Norwood, several trees found. 

 Sharon, several trees found. 



Bristol County. 

 Attleborough, scattering. 



Proposed Cure for the Lumbering Slash Evil. 



The sketch on page 278 represents the State Forester's idea for 

 lessening the danger of forest fires starting in slash. He believes that 

 a property owner has no right to endanger the property of a neighbor 

 by leaving a lot of dried and easily inflammable slash bordering 

 on or even encroaching on the other's woodland. To compel an 

 owner, however, to burn his entire slash after a lumbering operation 

 is an expensive and often needless operation. Sufficient protection 

 can be had by dragging back all the dead limbs and tops for a 



