420 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P.D.No.4. 



Summary of Recommendations of the State Forester. 



1. That a more pretentious plan for acquisition and manage- 

 ment of lands for use as State forests be given due consideration. 



2. That legislation be enacted regulating the present slash 

 dangers. Our great losses from forest fires are largely traceable 

 to our indifference in leaving slash where it can be reached by fire. 



3. That the appropriation for gypsy and brown-tail moths 

 for the coming year be as follows: $125,000 for the remainder of 

 this year and $75,000 for use until the Legislature of 1915 may 

 take action. 



4. That the present method of taxing forest land be so 

 altered as to encourage rather than discourage the practice of 

 forestry in this Commonwealth. 



Respectfully submitted, 



F. W. RANE, 



State Forester. 



