The Indiana Method. 



Important to Farmers. 



HE FOLLOWING is the Indiana law, the intention 

 of which is to promote an intelligent interest in 

 forestry and stimulate men to increase the forest 

 cover of the State : 



SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General As- 

 sembly of the State of Indiana, That upon any tract of land in 

 the State of Indiana, there may be selected by the owner, or 

 owners, as a permanent forest reservation, a portion not to 

 exceed one-eighth of the total area of said tract, which shall 

 be appraised for taxation at one dollar per acre. 



SEC. 2. If such selection is an original forest, containing 

 not less than 170 trees on each acre, it shall become subject to 

 this act upon filing with the auditor of the county in which 

 it is situated, a description of such selection as is hereinafter 

 provided. 



SEC. 3. If any land owner shall plant not less than 170 

 trees on each acre of selected forest reservation, and shall 

 cultivate and maintain the same for three years, then it shall 

 become subject to this act, as herein provided. 



SEC. 4. Upon any tract selected as a forest reservation which 

 contains 100 or more original forest trees on each acre, the 

 owner may plant a sufficient number of forest trees which 

 shall make up the required 170 trees per acre, when the same 

 shall become subject to this act, as in section 3. 



SEC. 5. No land owner shall receive the benefit of this act 

 who shall permit cattle, horses, sheep, hogs or goats to pasture 

 upon such reservation until said trees are four inches in 

 diameter. 



SEC. 6. Whenever any tree or trees shall be removed or 

 die, the owner in order to avail himself of this act shall plant 

 other trees in place of such trees as may be removed or die, 

 and protect said trees until they are four inches in diameter, 

 which shall at all times maintain the full number required by 

 this act. 



SEC. 7. Not more than one-fifth of the full number of trees 

 in any forest reservation shall be removed in any one year, 

 excepting that such trees as may die naturally may be 

 removed, when other trees shall be planted. 



SEC. 8. Ash, maple, pine, oak, hickory, basswood, elm, black 

 locust, honey locust, Kentucky coffee tree, chestnut, walnut, 

 butternut, larch, tulip tree, mulberry, osage orange, sassafras 

 and catalpa shall be considered forest trees within the mean- 

 ing of this act. 



SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the auditor in every county 

 to keep a record of all forest reservations as the same shall 

 be filed with him, and he shall require the owner or agent to 

 subscribe under oath the extent and description of the land 

 reserved, and that the number of trees is as required by this 



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