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1869-1884. — In 1884 Dr. Packard was informed 1 that in the vicinity 

 of Beed's Hotel, Keene Flats, in the Adirondacks, the spruce had been 

 dying for the past fifteen years. 



1874-1881.— In the Home and Farm, of Brunswick, Me., July 14, 



1881, Mr. A. G. Tenney states, as quoted by Packard, 2 that he had 

 been informed by an intelligent and experienced lumberman of North 

 Somerset County, Me., that the first appearance of the insect (that 

 killed the trees) was in 1874, and up to 1881 it was on the increase. 



1876-1881. — Hough 3 states that great destruction (estimated by Mr. 

 Robert Conners to be 1,000,000,000 feet) of spruce occurred on the 

 Allegash and other tributaries of the St. John River in northern 

 Maine and that these injuries extended through the spruce forests of 

 the whole of Aroostook County and the most northern range of towns 

 in Somerset and Piscataquis counties adjoining. 



1875. — Hough 4 states that about the year 1875 the spruce timber in 

 New Brunswick along- the Mivamichi River began to die off in great 

 abundance, the hills suffering more than the valleys, and the dense 

 woods more than those where partial clearings had been made. The 

 largest and best of the timber suffered most, and the young growth 

 appeared somewhat favored, but was not wholly exempt. 



1870-1873, 1880-1885.— In 1900, Mr. Cary states, in the Forester, of 

 March, page 52, that — 



Old lumbermen tell of a great loss of spruce timber in northern Vermont and 

 New Hampshire, extending into neighboring lands in Canada, which occurred 

 some thirty years ago. The drives of the Connecticut River are said to have 

 been made up for some years thereafter largely of dead timber. The same region 

 suffered again between ten and fifteen years ago. 



In Maine beginning about fifteen years ago. a township on the Androscoggin, 

 which at the time was called the best spruce land on the river, had a large part 

 of its value destroyed in the course of three or four years. On the Allegash 

 River, in northern Maine, there are several adjoining townships which, about 



1882, were greatly damaged. In some places 90 per cent of the spruce is said to 

 have been killed; in fact, all of the grown timber. 



1897. — In August, 1897, Fisk 5 found the spruce dying and infested 

 with the beetles in northern New Hampshire. 



Different authors and their correspondents estimate that 10, 50, and 

 as much 90 per cent of the matured timber had died over large areas. 



Different authors and correspondents have estimated that the tim- 

 ber was of little value after the second year, and many claim that 

 it is worthless after the second or third year. Mr. Cary thought 6 

 that there was a lessening of something like 50 per cent in available 

 timber within two years. 



1 Fifth Report of U. S. Ent. Com., p. 818. 



-Ibid., p. 813. 



: Report on Forestry, 1882, p. 259. 



^ Ibid., p. 259. 



5 Bulletin 17, new series, Division of Ent,, U. S, Dept. of Agr., pp. 67-69. 



b The Forester, March, 1900, p. 53. 



