394 ECONOMICS OF FORESTRY. 



States recognized their responsibility, namely In- 

 diana and Connecticut. Indiana entered the list 

 of states with a forest policy by the establishment 

 of a state board of forestry and the enactment 

 of a law exempting certain forest lands from tax- 

 ation (see p. 246). Connecticut appointed a state 

 forester under the board of control of the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, and enacted a law " con- 

 cerning reforestation of barren lands," making a 

 small appropriation for the purchase and planting 

 of such lands. 



A few other states show feeble beginnings, some 

 dating back a long time, without visible progress. 



In Newjersey, North Carolina, and West Virginia 

 the state geological surveys have had the forestry 

 interests in charge for several years, publishing 

 from time to time useful information. A well-de- 

 vised bill providing for a forest commission and 

 state forest reserve failed of passage in the legis- 

 lature of West Virginia in 1 897. 



In Ohio a forestry bureau was instituted in 1885, 

 its functions being of an educational and advisory 

 nature. It published four or five annual reports 

 containing information on a variety of subjects, 

 but for a number of years these reports, and prob- 

 ably the bureau, have been discontinued. 



In North Dakota the ofifice of commissioner of 

 irrigation and forestry was created in 1890, seem- 

 ingly mainly for educational purposes. In Kansas 

 for some time the educational campaign for timber- 



