The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-01-12
IMPROVES THREE THOUSAND
ACRES.
Great Acreage in 1916 Put Under
Better Paying Management by
Board Of Forestry.

Some three thousand acres of pri-
vate forests and Woodlots in this
State are going to BE- i'm better grow
i'm condition in 1917 than they have
been i'm 1915, Oh for very many years
before, in fact. 1t has just been learn
ed from the Office of the State For
ester that the foregoing represents
approximately the area of State-im-
proved, but privately owned, lands
which have been given thorough ex-
pert treatment by the States for
esters during the past twelve months
and put in condition of actual and
financial productivity which will show
immediate returns, and a source OF
future revenues by no means small.
This woodlot Improvement work
has been going On with accumulative
force for practically eleven years.
The first year, back in 1906, when
State Forestry was only a lusty be-
ginner, little of it was done; lit
tie more of it was done in each year
following until the area Of wooded
lands put on better-paying basis by
the Board of Forestry is numbered by
the thousand acres. Each years inn
petus goes on to the next, for new
work il constantly brought I'D The
fore through preliminary examina-
tons made by the State Forester OF
an Assistant to determine if possible
just what must be done for individual
bodies or woodland if they are
promptly To d. returned to the
healthy, growing condition for which
they were intended, and from which
they have steadily been getting far
ther through unWise cutting and cas-
ual care. Tracts given the prelimt-
nary examination, as IL IL called
numbered in 1916 not far from 40, on
some of them work needed and there
fore recommended has already been
done by Tho State, CT it, cooperative
terms OF less than cost On the 9TH
ers, IL active improvement work is
needed, it will be given them as
speedily as possible, and nothing
neglected that 1T fl possible for Tho
Board itself To do.
Such practical activities, important
as they are, do not by any means
comprise the full scope of the Board
of Forestry's field of work Forest
fires, at one time source Of incalcu-
liable damage and loss to forests and
forest owners, have been consistently
reduced, ald plans are mapped out
for their further prevention and most
efficient control through 1917 NO
one who has been witness To the pro
gress which State Forestry has made
already, doubts that these plans will
mature, and everything possible done
to safeguard the forest resources Oh
the State. III II unfortunate that they
must constantly be so protected from
human carelessness.
| Investigations in the field of forest
uses have been undertaken and com
plated, and it il intended To promptly
give them to the public in the shape
Of yield and volume tables for Mary
land forests and the individual trees
that make them UP; practical Wood
Waste Exchange and report OF Mary
land wood-using industries for the
benefit of producers and consumers
and the cutting down of unnecessary
waste by way of better methods; and
report upon the local opportunities
for willow culture, with brief re-
sumo of what has already been done
in this field; with the additional en-
couragement afforded the osier grow
er by the European war.
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