Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10

tens, is at least 1000, 0O0,O feet"
Attached to the report are articles
by Ralph S. Hosmer of the L. S. Blu
reau of Forestry. Prof. w. NJ. Nun
son. University of Maine and Austin
Cary, chief forester for the Berlin
Mills co. Of these articles Mr.. Ring
says:
Early III the present year | was
able to perfect arrangements with
Hon. Clifford Pinchot, the head of the
Forestry Bureau of the United States,
for cooperative work between the
National Bureau of Forestry and the
Forestry Department of this State. Mr..
Pinchot agreed to send to Maine a
competent force of his best men. Early
in July this agreement was carried
out and Ralph S. Hosmer of New
Haven, Conn. accompanied by ten men,
arrived in the State and began ex-
periments at Squaw Mountain town
ship, near Moosehead lake. This place
was considered the best adapted for
the work in view. For ten weeks the
members Of Mr.. Hosmer's party la
bored and studied the forest conditions
OF the section in which they were To-
Gated in the interests of the State as
we'll as the National government. The
result of their Investigations and ex-
periments will be found in this report.
Mr.. Hosmer is a field assistant at
tached to the Bureau of Forestry. He
Is graduate of the School of Forestry,
connected with Yale College, and is
thoroughly practical in his work. His
report will be found of more than or
binary interest, for he describes with
minute detail every phase of the sub
jcct and gives his reasons for every
idea advanced In clear and lucid
manner.
Prof. Munson's interesting article ON
the distribution of plants in forest re-
gions explains how nature will reseed
our waste lands and that, without the
use of pillow and axe, only few years
would elapse before the land now
cleared throughout the State would
again be covered with a thrifty growth
of soft and hard woods.
THE special article On the system
of logging practiced by the Berlin
Mills Company should be read care
fully by every wild land owner and
lumberman in the state. There is no
tpbDt tIail iiiiS 'ptilBdIIy 10 cutting
it's lands TO better advantage than any
other concern in the State although
the NJ. G. Shaw Lumber Company has
Tor Il number of years worked over it's
lands With great care, saving down
its trees and taking therefrom all the
wood of any value. The tendency.
however, is rapidly growing with land
owners and lumbermen that our for
ests are becoming of too great value
10 continue the wasteful cutting with
"A view OF getting the most that is pos
sible from our forests Will eventually
be carried on with as much care and
skill as is used in other lines of bust
ness of the same magnitude. Care in
the economical cutting of our forests
Is the first principle of forestry.
what Mr.. Cay says In his article
Of the ravages of spruce by beetles up
to This time, applies only to the ex-
IRENE western part of the State, but
little if any damage having been done
outside Of the Androscoggin valley.
1.-THE beetle or saw fly which. twenty
years aSo, destroyed all the larch or
juniper trees in New England and New
York. have disappeared, and reports
from the forest sections show that
LARGE quantities of this wood are again
growing in all the wooded areas of the
State
Commissioner Ring closes his adj
mirable report by the following en-
dorsement Of the plan TO impose a Ii
cense fee upon nonresident hunters
for big game in the forests of Maine.
I'm conclusion. l wish to reiterate
what / have previously said that the