FORESTRY. 
\ 
without much further delay, authority will 
be given to buy for the State all the land 
-available in the Adirondacks before more 
of it is secured by the lumbermen. 
To give an idea of the destruction that 
is going on, I will note that a gentleman 
from this city is reported to have recently 
bought 60,000 cords of pulp wood for one 
papermaking company, 10,000 cords of 
which are to be delivered for Watertown 
paper mills. If this wood were in a pile 
one cord high, this quantity would extend 
16 miles. I am informed that there are 50,- 
ooo cords now at Dexter, Jefferson county, 
both in the stream and on the bank, and 
that one pile on the bank represents 13,000 
cords. 
It is reported that 9 successful novels 
recently published in the United States had 
a total sale of 1,600,000 copies. Since the 
average weight of each book sold was prob- 
ably 20 ounces, calculation will prove that 
these 1,600,000 books contained 2,000,000 
pounds of paper. 
As trees 4 inches in diameter are cut for 
pulp, a paper manufacturer observes that 
the average spruce tree yields a little less 
than half a cord of wood, which is equiva- 
lent to about 500 pounds of paper. In other 
words, these 9 novels required 4,000 trees, 
and they form but a small portion of the 
fiction so eagerly read by the American 
public. 
S. E. Stanton, 
This is only one of several instances 
in which Governor Odell has shown a hos- 
tile attitude toward the game and the for- 
ests of this State. The sportsmen, and that 
means the friends of the Adirondack for- 
ests, will have another reckoning with 
Odell at the ballot box, if he should ever 
run for office again.—Eniror. 
Watertown, N. Y. 
SOME PHILADELPHIA TREE HOGS. 
Frightened at the prospect of an overstocked 
market and a serious financial loss, the Christmas 
tree syndicate here late this afternoon decided 
on the destruction of 30 carloads of spruces and 
pines that were lying in the West Philadelphia 
yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad, thereby cut- 
ting the supply in half. 
At dusk this evening a locomotive started out 
of the switchyard with 15 cars. These were run 
to a dump some distance from the city, where 
the 15 loads of trees were saturated with oil and 
a torch was put to them. A second string of cars 
loaded with trees, was afterward taken to the 
same place. 
Altogether 4,000 trees were burned between 
dusk and midnight. There are now in Philadel- 
phia about 3,000 trees to supply a normal de- 
mand for 5,o00.—Philadelphia paper. 
I should like to call the attention of all 
true sportsmen to this outrage. Such ruth- 
less waste of pine and spruce trees, which 
are among our most beautiful conifers, is 
scandalous. These syndicate men are worse 
than game hogs. 
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RECREATION is doing a great good by 
roasting such brutes. 
J. N. Farson, Plainfield, N. J. 
The object in burning these trees was, of 
course, to compel people to pay 3 or 4 times 
as much for their Christmas trees as they 
would have had to pay if this generous sup- 
ply had remained in the market. In other 
words this Christmas tree syndicate de- 
stroyed 4,000 young trees in order to get a 
chance to rob their customers, 
This is the soft of thing that makes anar- 
chists and socialists. 
The proper medicine for the tree burners 
would be a good large dose of whipping 
post.—EpITor. 

FOREST MANAGEMENT. 
Under the direction of A. F. Potter, the United 
States Bureau of Forestry has begun an exam- 
ination of the lands withdrawn from public sale 
in the Northern and Central parts of the State 
of California, the object being to determine what 
proportion should be included within permanent 
forest reserves and what portions excluded; and, 
in connection with other work to be done by the 
Bureau of Forestry, in co-operation with the 
State, to outline a State forest policy. The fol- 
lowing points will be especially investigated: 
The distribution and character of the forest, 
with a description of the varieties of trees and 
brush covers; the condition of the forest, to 
what extent devastated areas are being again for- 
ested by natural production, what protection is 
needed and where planting will e necessary to 
reforest the lands; the extent of damages by 
fire, its usual causes and the season at which 
fires are most likely to occur; the extent of lum- 
bering in the past and at present and its effect 
on the forest; the effect which the creation of 
forest reserves will have on lumbering; the quan- 
tity of merchantable timber and its accessibility 
to market; the nature and relative importance 
of industries in the proposed forest reserves and 
adjacent regions and their dependence on the tim- 
ber lands and water supply; the effect of the 
forest and brush cover on the water flow; the 
lecation, size, importance and industries of towns 
and settlements within or near the proposed for- 
est reserves; the means of transportation, roads 
and railroads; the extent of mineral lands and 
mining and the demand on the timber by this 
industry; the demand on the range for pastur- 
ing live stock; to what extent the prosperity of 
local residents depends on the live stock industry; 
the number and kind of live stock being pas- 
tured; the length of season; the condition of 
range; where grazing should be allowed and 
where restricted.—Exchange. 
My business prevents my taking many 
trips; but RECREATION well read is almost 
as good as really getting into the woods. 
Karl O. Balch, Lunenburg, Vt. 
In 18 years I have taken a great many 
papers and magazines, but find none equal 
to RECREATION. en 
S. S. Dice, Ligonier, Pa. 

I take several other magazines, but Rec- 
REATION beats them all. ; 
Geo. F. Norris, Torrington, Conn. 
