The Florida agriculturist., 1907-11-06

tack of the mildew Leaves attacked
by the mildew soon begin to look
unhealthy, and turn slightly yellow.
The diseaje says the Bulletin, is
caused by white, mould-like fungus,
and the treatment recommend is to
spray with potassium sulphide, one
ounce to two gallons Of water. AS
an additional preventive for the fol-
lowing year all dead plants should
be burned up after the fruit is picked,
in order to kill the resistant spores
that would otherwise live over winter
on the dead leaves and stems and
infest the next years crop.
Forestry Progress in 1906.
The paper on this subject, printed
in the Year 3 oOk Of the United Sta
Department Of Agriculture, has been
issued in bulletin form and conveys
a great deal Of information concern
ing forest reserves as established by
the Government, as we'll as alarming
facts connected with the decreasing
of the wooded areas of the country
and the consequent rise in price of
lumber. The advance is we'll shown
in map whose zig-zag lines show
the yeacly per cent of advance from
the year 1894 to that Of 1906. The
henllock Of Pennsylvania from $11.5o
per thousand feet brings $22.25 now;
sor thern yellow pine from $1,000 gone
up to 5000; cottonwood from $24 to
$44; yellow poplar $32 to $53, while
white pine that in 1894 commanded
S47 now brings, wholesale, at Buffalo,
N. Y, $o2.
These figures show clearly what lies
in the future for the lumber interests
Of a growing nation, and even Prof.
Bu1bank'5 new cement invention,
while it may check, in time, the use
Of lumber for building houses, is still
in such an experimental stage as to
cut no figure in the premises.
The Government is doing a very
good work in establishing Forest Re-
serves and maintaining them at de-
icit Of hundreds Of thousands of
dollars. In 1902 the area was 5oo6o,-
600 acres; gross revenue therefrom
$25,4oI.87; expenditure $325,ooo, leav-
ing a deficit of nearly $23o,ooo. In
1906 the area had increased to Io6,-
900, ,13S acres; revenue $767,2Io; ex-
penditure $97o,5Io.oo-defcit $2I2,-
200. These areas, of course, do not
include reservations made by various
, states. They are also altogether in
the country west Of. the Mississippi
where Government lands were yet ex-
tensive enough to be able to furnish
large areas in sections where wood
lands were still virgin forests. In
the tropic possessions both on Ha-
waiian and Philippine islands nearly
10000 acres have been set apart.
Nine states have forestry reserva-
tions; these are Connecticut, Indiana,
Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and
Wisconsin. The areas range from
1900 i'll the Nutmeg state & wonder
if for nutmeg industry?) to nearly
million and a half in New York;
Pennsylvania being second in place
with over $4,000 acres. The State
Forestry associations, however, num-
Der twenty, but Florida does not ap-
pear in the list, and it is time for
it's arboriculturists to get together and
start one; Georgia has the honor Of
being the only southern state named
in the report with Alfred Akerman
of Athens, as its secretary, maintain
ed, however, by the State University
AS yet, but few Schools of Forestry
have been established. Yale, at New
Haven, has one; another is at Bilt-
more, N. c.; another at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, being a part of the
Department of Literature, Science anC
Arts. Harvard, at Cambridge, main
tains a four years undergraduate