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ments, unintentional though they may be, the firewardens' reports have undergone 

 a careful censorship before tabulation, some of them having been returned for the 

 correction of errors that were plainly evident. 



As a sample of what is required in the way of a report, the following printed 

 form is given here, it being a copy of one received from a firewarden during the last 

 season, properly filled out. The answers to the printed questions, which were writ- 

 ten in by the firewarden, appear here in italics. 



STATE OF NEW YORK. 



Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission. 



REPORT OF FIRE. 



(As required by Sec. 277 of the Fisheries, Game and Forest Law, Chap. 655 of 1896.) 



Town in which fire occurred, Stratford, County of Fulton. 



Date when fire started, May 8, i8gg. 



Date of stopping of fire, May g, 1899. 



Number of acres burned, One hundred and twenty-five. 



State what part, if any, are State lands, Not any. 



Lot number, Lot 61 and a part of Lot 32. 



Township number or Tract name, Jerseyfield Patent. 



Value of standing timber destroyed, estimated, One hundred dollars. 



Value of cordwood, logs, bark and other forest products destroyed, $23 worth 

 cordwood. 



Value of bridges, fences and buildings destroyed, Not any. 



Cause of fire, By hunters, as near as L could learn. 



Measures employed to check and extinguish fire, Carrying water, whipping out 

 the ground fires with brush, digging trenches, and backfiring. 



Number of days' attendance by myself, 3. 



Number of men called out to fight fire, 16. 



Total number of days' labor by men called out, 2J. 



REMARKS: 



This land had been lu7iibered recently, and the tops had been cut tp into cordzvood. 

 Lf the fire had not been stopped promptly it would have run over a thousand acres or 

 more of very good timber land. L have tried to find out who is starting these fires, 

 but as yet am unable to learn. 



Signature, Net us Lancaster, 



Fire Warden, 



P. O. Address, Stratford, 



County of Fulton, N. Y. 



Note. — Report each Fire on separate Blank. Report must be made immediately after fire is extinguished. 



