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TIMBER CRUISERS IN FLORIDA. 
Florida is about to get its first practical ex¬ 
perience of the results of National forest ad¬ 
ministration. A reconnaissance survey of the 
Choctawhatchee Forest, which was put under 
control of the Department of Agriculture in 
November, 1908, by Presidential proclamation, 
is now being made by a force of Forest Service 
experts. This survey will furnish information 
in the light of which use of the forests can be 
promoted through properly regulated timber 
cutting, through turpentining under the cup- 
and gutter or the cup-and-apron method, and 
through grazing, without harm to the perma¬ 
nent value of the forests. Florida was the first 
State east of the Mississippi to have a National 
forest. 
The Choctawhatchee Forest containing ap¬ 
proximately 467,606 acres, is located in the 
western part of the State, along the Gulf, in 
Walton and Santa Rosa counties. The Ocala 
Forest, embracing some 207,285 acres, lies in 
the central part,, the greater portion of the 
forest being in Marion county, with a small 
fraction in Lake. The two forests were placed 
under administration Nov. 1, 1909. 
As long ago as 1825, Congress appropriated 
$10,000 to buy live oak land on Santa Rosa 
Sound to make sure of a supply of ship timber 
for our war vessels. This reservation, together 
with other tracts subsequently set aside, made 
a total of 208,224 acres in Florida timberlands 
which the government purposed to hold as a 
source of supply for its ships. Large quantities 
of acorns were planted and many young oaks 
set out. But the plantation was not a great 
success, and the main effort was ultimately re¬ 
stricted to thinning out, pruning, and other 
silvicultural care of the trees of the natural 
forest. To-day the new attempt at forestry in 
the Peninsular State promises much more en¬ 
couraging results. 
The party of eight Forest Service cruisers, 
headed by A. B. Recknagel, assistant chief of 
silviculture at Albuquerque, N. Mex., have al¬ 
ready commenced operations near the head of 
Little Alaqua. The crew will proceed west¬ 
ward to the western border on East Bay River. 
An accurate survey of all the government land 
will be taken, the stumpage estimated, and a 
report made of the number of turpentine cups 
! that, in accordance with the latest Federal 
regulations, may properly be placed on the 
forest. 
When the cruisers shall have completed their 
work on the Choctawhatchee, a similar inspec¬ 
tion of the Ocala Forest will be made. It is 
thought the surveys will engage the force till 
the beginning of summer. Sites have been 
selected for the rangers’ houses, to be built by 
contract. 
A local estimator figures that the county- 
school and road funds will profit by the turpen¬ 
tining, grazing, timber-cutting, and other re¬ 
ceipts of the Choctawhatchee Forest to the ex¬ 
tent of $700 or- $800 this first year, since twenty- 
five per cent, of all such revenues is to go into 
these two funds. 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from any 
newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to supply you 
regularly. 
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