New-York tribune., 1903-02-07
SCIENTIFIC FORESTRY.
Grosring Demand by P,foate O1cners
-Hork of The Federal Bureau.

Washington. Feb. G.-Evidence Of the growing
mana ging forests is afforded by the RESPONSES
20 a circular four wears ago by the
Bureau OF Forestry, in the United States De-
psTtment OF Agriculture. Owners of { i1G9 ia
acres OF private lands have asked for advice
and assistance. Nearly one-half of this area
Was represented by the applications made last
year. Or. Clifford Pinchot forester Of the de-
partment, says that the bureau offers to CO.
operate without cost TO the owner. when lots
Of 100 acres or less are to be studied and to
prepare working plans for larger tracts after
2 careful examination the actual expense of
the labor being borne by the applicant, As We;
the promised service has been rendered on less
than one-tenth of the land TO which these re-
quests refer but the interest shown is encour-
aging because much larger part of the forests
in this country are in private hands than are
embraced in Cover nnlent reserves.
Two small tracts for which working plans
were made last year lie in New-York State.
one was al Arden, Orange County. and belongs
70 Z. A Hartman. 1t includes 1000 acres.
and studied by nine men from the senior
class Of the Yale Forest School. who reported
on the character. condition. present stand and
future yield OF timber. The other tract was in
Herkimer County, belongs the Moose River
LUMBER company. ana was OF the same extent
as the first This includes some virgin forest.
containing fine stand OF mature spruce. and
cut over region on which there is some hard
wood.
one Of the private tracts on which observa-
tions were made embraced 1-0o0o of the 27:,-
100 acres belonging to the Great Northern Paper
Company in Maine. Twenty-men were there
four months Complete measurements of the
stand were obtained on over three Thousand
acres. the rate of growth determined on
nine hundred trees. suggestions were made con-
corning the reproduction of spruce cut over
areas. and A special study made of the red
spruce and lalsam. which here the most inn
portant trees. III addition TO the three tracts
just mentioned, plans for four others have been
prepared raising the total acreage TO 421oU0
for the year. Plans are now in course OF prepa-
ration for l.G206o0 acres more. In practically
every instance a diameter limit is set. below
which no tree may he cut: recommendations are
made that a certain few exceeding that size he
left for. seed having been specially marked. 1t
is further proposed that contracts for lumber
ing lie SO worded to require the removal Of
some of the less valuable wood with the best, so
as to leave a good field for replanting. and
means are often prescribed for insuring protec-
ton from fre-the cutting and burning of a
broad belt around the tract.
public forest reserves work was uOlie III
many places Preliminary surveys were made
in townships =. 6 and IL. in Hamilton County,
y Y Measurements were taken on 2.4t1 acres
there. and suggestions were made to the i'm
provemeut Of local streams TO assist lumber
men. Preliminary work also done in the
Prescott Forest Reserve. Arizona. which en-
braces 423 $50 acres; that Priest River
Idaho containing 645,12o acres. and the Big
Horn tNfontana) Reserve, which includes 1,2l6,-
960 acres.
To assist those who wish advice TO replant-
ine the bureau has prepared 2.4 plans after eX-
arnining 197, ,4:9 acres. The area TO be planted
under these provisions is 6.4f4 acres one OF
me tracts on which such work was begun is in
Massachusetts, 1t is controlled by the Metro
peiitan Water and Sewerage Commission. and
includes 800 acres In every case q study is
made of the locality the objects in view and the
hest trees for the service. Where it is desirable
80 fix shifting beach sands as along the Nir-
siufa and Carolina coast and up in oregon ana
Washington. board fences are first erected ana
grass is planted. The ground then becomes
stable enough to accommodate young trees IL
having been found that the sand nils OF Ne
l,raska are also adapted to forest culture I"o
hig reserves have been established there and
tie work OF planting these VIII "eSli 'hi9 io
spring. r. ..oos
studies OF the traits Of various species OF trees
IN, lpraereSS for several years \ "
not ON the Pacific Coast redwood rs ready TOT
,,,,I,1icarior and one on the Bristle Cone III OF
t,gl;fori. * \ lso completed. Attention mas petl
,-;,-er 10 the distribution OF the red ana plach
nm, and ,.1-fsress Of the sTanpS. ana 10 tue
,-isld md growth of the pines and oaks OF MICH
iran The vhite oak and chestnut OAK OF rem
lessee Kentucky and Missouri: the louSepoIe
;,il,o in wyoming and Montana. and the Eello"
pine in ArizCpa. - :,
t,o-aperative Investigations are caffleu pil II
connection with state authorities OF Win IN
United States Geological Survey IN seNeLai ~
stances THUS the study of the sierra fote,t
Reserve of California has now heeh coll.pieIVe s.e
Tho renorf shows the distribution ol lle ull
roront kinds Of trees. their value 10 lhauSuH an
the effect II fire. on reproduction III Ols Noih
-l,,4c million acres were examined
several her researches Of practcdl !III-
r.,rta,,,c have been Initiated NaTletles OF UNI
i,er ,,1ich may Toe serViceable for paper pup 81
ral7lr thoroughly tested. = cheap lnethod oi
extracting resin from fir. so that the latter hla!
l,r reduced 70 pulp easily. is sought an III M
,,r,.el method of tapping the long leaf pine IoI
,,I,,,en7fne has been devised, thus tnsuring Ihe
reservation of the trees from which sucn sup
,,li.e s,,e obtained Tests are being made 10 ot
ter77,ine the strength 81 various kinos OF , Woou
.,d ev,ssi,,,ep.s are in progress with ieatber
,s7-ra5 II different barks. and q special STUDY
bss beer made of the cedar shinSle industry OF
the Pacific Coast
r, ,,toftHs IN THE SANDWICH ISL
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