The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-04-27
FORESTRY
EXHIBIT.
Government VIII Make n Splendid
Display at Fan-American.


Display at Fan-American.
The United States Government For
estry exhibit at the Pan American Ez-
position will form division Of the
important display to be made by the
Department Of Agriculture. 1t Will
consist mainly of a Photographic dis
play illustrating the relation of agri-
culture to forestry, supplemented by
maps and sections Of commercial tim
ber trees from the Appalachian Noun
tain region.
The Photographic display will en-
body sixty framed bromide prints en-
iarged from photographs, together with
twenty colored and uncolored trans
parcncies.
The bromide pictures range in size
from sixteen by twenty -four to twenty
four by thirty inches, and the transpar.
,ncies are from three By four to six by
ten feet.
The subjects to be illustrated by bro
mides aud transparencies comprise
briefly the various me >ds Of lumber
ing. their effects on st production
and Oh the adjacent agr. ltural lands
The effects Of forest fires n the forest
land and the relation Of such denuda-
ton to the flow of water in streams
and the supply OF water for irrigation
will be fully shown. The principal
types of trees and forests will be illus
trated to show the size and lumber pro-
duction OF forests occupying agricultur-
al and n0nagricultural lands. The val
ue of preserving certain types of pro-
tective forests on watersheds for the
conservation of water important to ad-
pacent large areas of agricultural lands
will also be Illustrated. A special fea-
turc of the Photographic display will be
the Illustration of Individual trees of
the mammoth Bistrce, the Giant Red
Firs, White Firs and the Sugar Pines
of the California Sierra forests by col
ored transparencies six by ten feet. 1t
is interesting to state in this connection
that these transparencics are the lar
gcst ever made. Typical agricultural
valley lands in the East and West will
he illustrated on The same scale, show
ing the special protective agencies of
natural adjacent mountain forests and
planted shelter belts of forest trees.
The region and the subject from which
these Illustrations We're taken are rep
rHscntativa OF the principal agricultur-
al and forest sections OF the United
States.
Fourteen colored maps Of the United
States will show the distribution of the
principal forest types and species, the
distribution of rainfall in relation to
that Of forest areas and in connection
the location Of State Experiment sta
tlona.
Ninetesn large slabs, four feet high
and six inches thick, with bark at
fachel and one surface polished, show
the size. qualify and character Of the
commercial timber trees of the APP
palachian forest region.
The Government Forestry exhibit
will he Under the immediate super
vision Of NJ. Clifford pjuchot, the Chief
VI tut 1'iN t5ltl liz 10 VI
Yale, has Travelled extensively and has
prepared for Buffalo an exhibit that
has iipver been shown in this country
before. CuATlEs EDWARD LLOYD.
OUR OFFER.
To the two persons receiving the
greater number of coupons cut from
the columns of the DAILY RErUELI-
CAN, we will give free trip to the
Pan American Exposition at Buffalo,
N. v, on July Sth.
Winners will have quarters in the
New Continental Hotel, which is one
Of the leading houses in Buffalo. One
week at the Exposition, with tie OPP
portlnty of taking trip to Niagara
Falls, which is within short dis
tancc. Who will be the winners?
The two who have the greater num-
Der Of votes to their credit.