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FEBRUARY, 1915 
EDITORIAL 
VOL. XXIV No. 12 
Possibilities of Municipal Forestry 
During the last few years there has been considerable develop- 
ment in the practice of forestry by the cities of the country. A 
number of technically trained men have taken up this phase of 
forestry and are known as “City Foresters’’ or “Shade Tree Ex- 
perts.” There is a great possibility of extending this work by 
developing more or less extensive forest tracts in the vicinity of 
our towns and cities, both for their aesthetic value as parks and 
for commercial purposes. Very recently several municipalities 
have taken up forestry and are planting the water-sheds of their 
reservoirs and other sources of water supply. An excellent ex- 
ample is the city of Hornell, N. Y., on whose water-shed there 
has recently been planted 30,000 trees. Other municipalities that 
have taken up this work have been Middletown, Troy, Glovers- 
ville and New York City. Considerable planting has been under- 
taken on the slopes adjacent to the immense Ashoken reservoir 
in the Catskills. During the past year the city of Syracuse has 
been planting extensively on the water-shed of Skaneateles Lake, 
the municipal reservoir and is applying simple phases of forest 
management to some 150 acres of wooded lands acquired and 
known as the City Forest. According to statistics furnished by 
the U. S. Forest Service, there are already ninety-seven municipal 
forests in this country, ten of which are in New York. The pri- 
mary purpose of the work on the Syracuse municipal forest is 
to insure the best sanitary conditions and thus a clean and pure 
water supply. With the assurance of this object being accom- 
plished, it has undertaken the practice of forestry along commer- 
cial lines on the wooded areas and expects to yield a definite 
revenue to make the operation a paying proposition. This area 
would otherwise continue in an idle and unproductive state. In 
some instances cities are planting up unsightly waste places near 
the municipal limits with the intention of eventually developing 
these tracts as forest parks, cutting through roads and paths and 
landscaping the ground after the trees have grown up to a suit- 
able size. Rochester has developed many beautiful forest parks 
in this way and has gained an enviable reputation for its extensive 
system on the outskirts of nearly every part of the city. 
Cemetery Business Management 
We call especial attention to the excellent discussion of cemetery 
cost finding on another page of this issue because the business 
side of cemetery development is not often given the attention 
it deserves. The technical problems of cemetery development have 
been fully and freely discussed, but matters pertaining to ceme- 
tery business management are not as frequently discussed at our 
cemetery conventions or in these pages. The cemetery is one of 
the largest business institutions in the community, and in mat- 
ters of accounting, finance and salesmanship its management de- 
mands a business talent of a high order. Whether a cemetery 
be a private institution, run for profit, or an association of lot 
holders, its success depends to a large degree on successful busi- 
ness management. Its records and accounts must be faultlessly 
kept, its funds wisely handled and carefully invested, and its 
income conserved and added to with as much diligence as any 
other business institution. Efficiency, good business management 
and merchandising are as essential to a modern cemetery as to 
any other of our great institutions. 
Editorial Notes 
The aboretum established at Washington, in Rock Creek Park, 
through co-operation between the forest service and the District 
of Columbia, now contains 1,200 trees, comprising ninety-two dif- 
ferent species. 
The King of England has given permission to have a part of 
the royal estate placed at the disposal of the School of Forestry 
at Cambridge University for purposes of experiment and dem- 
onstration. 
William Penn, in his Charter of Rights, provided that for every 
five acres of forest cleared one acre should be left in woods. 
Foresters today maintain that on an average of one-fifth of every 
farm should be in timber. 
As showing the possibilities for tree growth in regions where 
irrigation has to be depended upon, it is pointed out that Boise, 
Idaho, has as many as ninety-four different kinds of ornamental 
and shade trees. 
Those familiar with the Eastern mistletoe only have no idea 
of the great losses due to this parasite in the forests of the West, 
where it counts next to fire and insects in the amount of damage 
done. 
The highest mountain in Montana, Granite Peak, with an alti- 
tude of nearly 13,000 feet, is in the Beartooth National Forest. 
Norway has 144 tree-planting societies. The first was founded 
in 1900, and since then 26,000,000 trees have been planted, more 
than 2,000,000 having been set out last year. 
The L'inta Mountains of Utah, included within the Wasatch, 
Uinta and Ashley national forests, should become a favorite recre- 
ation region because of the many small lakes within depressions 
scooped out by glacial drifts. Seventy such lakes can be counted 
from Reid’s Peak, and one particular township, thirty-six miles 
square, contains more than a hundred. 
Throughout the national forests the rangers are posting the 
roads with permanent guide signs which tell distances and direc- 
tions, especially at forks and crossroads. The signs are usually 
put up in the winter, when other work tends to be light. On 
some forests the rangers go on snowshoes, dragging loaded sleds, 
and nail the signboards to the roadside trees. 
The position of city forester is now offering a new field for men 
with a technical training in forestry. Fitchburg, Mass., is one 
of the latest towns to secure an official of this sort. 
The Massachusetts Forestry Association offers as a prize the 
planting of fifty acres of white pine to the town which gains first 
place in a contest for town forests. 
The Boise National Forest in Idaho had thirty fires during the 
past summer, yet twenty-eight were held down to less than ten 
acres, and of these, fifteen were less than one-quarter of an acre. 
The supervisor says this success was due to a lookout tower and 
to efficient telephone and heliograph service. 
F'orbach, Germany, is said to have the most profitable town 
forest known ; it yields an annual net gain of $12.14 an acre. 
