114 FOREST PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION 
in plantations inspected during the present season. These included 
all of those planted with stock entering from without the state by 
special permit, and also many others planted from locally grown 
stock, particularly from the State Forest Nursery at Orono. 
The Department of Horticulture reports finding diseased Ribes 
in practically all of the counties in the state. 
The quarantine on all five leaved pines and all Ribes is still in 
force and will be continued as before. 
EDUCATION 
The general public seems to be distinctly apathetic in its atti- 
tude towards the blister rust control. This may be attributed 
HEMLOCK BARK AND PEELED HEMLOCK LOGS. 
In the last few years the supply of hemlock bark has not equaled the 
demand. Photo by Maine Forestry Dept. 
chiefly to a lack of understanding of even the exact character of 
the disease. This we are in hopes of correcting by the circulation 
and general state-wide distribution of the new circular on the dis- 
ease just issued through the codperation agencies. This circular 
will be distributed to all woodland owners and particularly to all 
owners of white pine in the southern part of the state. 
The Extension Service of the College of Agriculture, University 
of Maine, at. Orono, codperated in displaying an exhibition of the 
