No. 4. J KEPOKT OF STATE EOUESTER. 237 



MUXICIPAI, FoRKSTS. 



This typo of forestry work has a^aiu received more or h>ss of 

 our alteiilion this year. The forest workiiisi; jjUiii for huid 

 beloni^inii; to the city of Fall Kiver in the lYorth Watuppa water- 

 shed, which is the water supply for that city, was completed and 

 published iu a buHetin from this office. This bulletin has not 

 only proved of interest to other cities and towns as well throuii,h- 

 out the State, but has been called for by many cities from outside 

 th'e State. When the advantages to be derived from such under- 

 takings become more fully understood, there is little doubt but 

 that the recommendations outlined in the bulletin mentioned 

 will be generally cari-ied out and put into practice. This bulle- 

 tin was not generally distributed, but can be had by any one 

 interested in such work. 



Bulletin ox Forest Fires. 



A bulletin entitled " We must stop Forest Fires iu Massachu- 

 setts," was published during the year. It contained 44 pages, 

 and was published that our people may realize more fully the 

 exact condition of forest fires in the State, and especially to 

 bring together data for the benefit of our forest wardens and 

 their deputies, that they may know what the better towns of the 

 State are doing, thereby gaining new ideas and being enabled 

 more intelligently to accomplish good results in their ow^ii com- 

 munities. The bulletin contains several illustrations of forest 

 fire wagons and equipment, together with estimate costs ; and 

 gives a list of all the forest wardens, with their addresses, from 

 each town and city in the State. 



Bulletin ox Thinning. 



The first bulletin on " Forest Thinning " has been exhausted 

 for some time, and we have a new bulletin now in press on this 

 subject, which contains some' definite experimental data of Mas- 

 sachusetts conditions and treats the subject in an up-to-date 

 nuinner. This bulletin wnll be of interest, we believe, to the 

 wdiole State, and particularly throughout the gypsy-moth-infested 



