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necessary to build a lire in the open between March i and De- 

 cember I. The state forester may use part of his appropriation 

 not to exceed $2000 a year for paying the traveling expenses of 

 wardens to conventions within the state. 



The state law requires that every locomotive be provided 

 with a spark arrester. The legislature of 1910 prohibited the 

 flying of fire balloons. 



Another provision of the Acts of 19 10 permits the state 

 forester to reimburse every town up to $250 for money spent by 

 the town for apparatus to be used in extinguishing or preventing 

 forest fires, provided an equal expenditure is made by the town 

 and that such assistance cannot be rendered to towns with total 

 valuation of property exceeding $1,500,000. The state appro- 

 priates yearly $5000 for the expenditures under this law. 



Another of the 1910 acts, intended to lessen the number of 

 fires set by foreigners in southeastern Massachusetts, provides 

 that it is unlawful for any unnaturalized, foreigii-born person to 

 pick wild berries, or flowers, or to camp or picnic, upon any land 

 of which he is not the owner in Barnstable or Plymouth counties 

 without written permission of the owner or owners of the land. 



Massachusetts received in 191 1 an allotment of $1800 under 

 the Weeks' Bill for the prevention of fires on the watersheds of 

 the navigable streams. Only a portion of the sum was used, this 

 being expended for hiring patrols, lookout men and assistants. 



Educational Work. 



C. — Harvard maintains in connection with its School of 

 Applied Science a two years' forestry course, open to college 

 graduates. The laboratory and lecture work at Cambridge is 

 supplemented by field work on the Harvard forest, a tract of 2000 

 acres at Petersham, Massachusetts. 



The Massachusetts College of Agriculture at Amherst has 

 now established a course in farm forestry and it is intended in 

 connection with this course to carry on extension work. Al- 

 together this seems to be the most useful forestry work thus far 

 undertaken by any of the New England agricultural colleges. 



