The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-01
FORESTRY GAINING
OFFICIALS SAY LAST YEAR
WAS BEST YET.
New Jersey One of the States in which
Progress in Care for Woodlands
Is Most Notable.

WASHINGTON. Nov. Forrest work
carried on by the States made greater adj
vance during 1905 than in any previous
year" is the encouraging report of the
Forest Service in reviewing the principal
achievements of the year in forestry for
the yearbook of the Department of Agri-
culture. More than twenty States now
have forest officers and ten have State for
est reservations. In five StatesLConnecti-
cut. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan
and Wisconsin-the removal Of mature tim
Der from State forest lands is now per-
mitted. a provision which is a fundamenta
principle of forestry.
"The Delaware State Experiment Station.
in cooperation with the Forest Service. has
made a study of forest conditions on which
to base recommendations for a State forest
policy and plans of management for differ
ent stands of timber and different classes
of land.
o July 1 a forester was appointed bv
the newly created Maryland Board Of
Forestry. A portion of the autumn was
spent in making n reconnaissance of the
forest lands of the State.
IA State fire warden and SEVENTH TOWN.
ship wardens have been appointed IN New
Jersey under the law which became ef-
fective July /, 1906. The fall season Was
remarkably exempt from serious fires. Al
the beginning of the year 1907 a State
forester was appointed, who will give as
sistance to private land owners. give
courses of instruction to teachers and co.
operate with the State fire warden and
with the Forest Park Reservation Com.
mission.
within the boundary of the catslxili
Preserve, in New York, there are %. 70s
acres of State lands and 4S3, 412 acres prf-
vately owned. The total area of the Adj
rondack Preserve is 3,313,5 64 acres, of
which the State now owns 1,347, $50 acres,
Under the law of 1905 the superintendent
of forests was able to patrol the State pre-
serves efficiently during the dry season, at
small expense. To supply stock for plant
ing In the preserves the State maintains
three large nurseries for conlfers in Frank
lin County and one for hardwoods In Ulster
County, in the Catskills. The three Adir-
ondack nurseries combined have a capacity
of a million 3-year-old transplants per
annum. One of these, the Saranac Inn
Nursery, was established by the State in
1903 and the others, Axton and Wawbeek,
were first established by the Cornell Col
lege Of Forestry, and were placed in charge
of the State Forest Commission In the
spring Of 1906. Five plantations, embrace
ing al area of 1900 acres, have been
planted.
In 1906 and 1906 fifty acres of pines and
spruces were planted by the seed-spot
method with encouraging results. Broad
cast sowing last March Of white pine, red
spruce and balsam was not satisfactory.
An interesting experiment is being con-
Quoted with five species of Siberian conf
f~ers-plnes, fir and larch-to determine their
fitness for planting In the North Woods.
1.-THE State nurseries of Pennsylvania
were doubled in size in 1906 and now COM
prise six acres at Mont Alto, the location
of the State forestry academy; three acres
in Tioga County, and three acres in Hunt
ingdon County. Last spring 10000 white
pine seedlings were set out, and 400 pounds
of white pine seed is to be planted this
spring. For the two years beginning June
l, 1907, the Legislature appropriated $500, 600
for the purchase of forest lands, and $25, 600
for the examination of titles to lands pur-
chased; $4,000 for the road and school fund
in townships having reserved lands; $1S2, 900
for work upon reservations, and $4,000
as the States two-thirds share of the cost
of extinguishing forest fires throughout
the State.
The Pennsylvania is the first railroad
company to appoint a forester to super
wise the care and planting OF forest lands.
Already 100000 trees have been planted.
ana DBL acres OF land near Altoona, Pa,
will be stocked with chestnut and white oak
In the next two years. The Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company will plant 37S
acres In Carbon and Schuylki1l counties,
Pa, with chestnut, European larch and
Scotch pine. The Delaware and Hudson
Company was led by the results of a CO.
operative study with the forest service to
appoint a forester to look after the ex-
%tensive woodlands of the company and
attend to the planting work.
THE Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company has been Investigating how
mine props may be made to last longer
through ~impregnation with creosote by the
open tank treatment. The results of this
treatment are 80 satisfactory that plans
have been made for the erection of a plant,
with a capacity of about 800 cubic feet a.
day, with which to continue the treatment
on a commercial scale. This work has
shown the economy Of the open tank treat
ment and encouraged its wider use"
The article. Progress and Forestry"
illustrated. of which the above is an ex-
tract. has been issued, together with a di-
rectory of forest officers, associations and
schools. in pamphlet form. 1t can be had
upon application to the Forester, Forest
Service, Washington, D. G.