Jax. 23, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
NATIONAL FORESTER'S REPORT. 
Continued from page 132. 
make the fore.^ts coiitribu'te most effectively to 
! the public welfare. The timber given to indi¬ 
viduals is given for the development of the 
country through settlement. 
\ The total receipts from timber sales each 
; year since the national forests have been under 
I the administration of the Forest Service have 
I been as follows: 1905. $60,136.62; 1906. $245,- 
; 013.49; 1907, $668,813.12; 1908. $849,027.24. 
At the end of the last fiscal year, when busi- 
! ness was heavier than at any other time during 
i the year, the 182 national forests were cared 
j for by an executive and protective force of 
29 inspectors, 98 forest supervisors, 61 deputy 
I supervisors. 33 forest assistants, 8 planting as¬ 
sistants. 941 rangers, 521 forest guards and 88 
clerks. 
] The average area to each officer theoretically 
available for patrol duty was 116,665 acres. 
But more than three-fourths of the time of 
these forest officers is now required by tbe 
fast-growing volume- of national forest busi¬ 
ness, so that in point of fact the force on duty 
at the close of the year provided about one 
patrol officer to each 500,000 acres of forest. 
This is considered inadequate for protection of 
the forests. Until provision is made for a 
large inciease ot torce, it is necessary either to 
curtail the business arising from use of the 
I forests or to neglect the proper safeguarding 
’ of Government property against fire. 
Experimental broadcast sowings were made 
‘ during the year in twenty-seven forests, in the 
1 States of Idaho, Montana, Washington, Ore¬ 
gon, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and New 
Mexico. The total area sown was 131 acres, 
of which 47 were in the Black Mills National 
Forest. 
About 7C0.000 trees were planted last year on 
forests in the States of Nebraska. Kansas, 
Colorado. New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Idaho 
and California. There are now growing at the 
planting stations over 2,200,000 trees, which 
will be ready for planting in 1909. Sufficient 
seed was sown in 1908 to produce 4,600,000 
: seedlings. 
Besides administering the national forests, 
the service render's, on request, expert advice 
and assistance to other parts of the Executive 
I Government regarding the practice of forestry. 
! Work of this kind was carried on several mili¬ 
tary and Indian reservations. Co-operative 
State forest studies were carried on with 
Kentucky, Mississippi, . New Hampshire and 
Illinois. 
The service conducts investigations of forest 
products along the lines of wood preservation 
and wood utilization. Some of these investi¬ 
gations aim primarily to promote better use of 
national forest timbers; others seek results 
either of general application or contributing to 
the best use of the forest of some special 
region. 
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The'•section in which Hohlub lives is sparsely 
settled. Scattering crumbs in his yard, Hohlub 
lured flocks of birds to the place and from his 
point of vantage picked them off at will. He 
wanted to kill enough to make a Christmas pot- 
pie and was rapidly getting them when his 
wife unexpectedly ventured out into the “game 
preserves” just as he fired. 
“Look out, Mary!” shouted Hohlub as he 
blazed away, but tbe warning was too late. 
Mrs. Hohlub fell to the ground with a cry. 
Dr. Hangarten. of St. John’s Hospital, 
dre.ssed the wound, and she remained at home 
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police station, where he spent the greater part 
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