The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-12-24
VERMONT FORESTRY NOTES.
Shipments of Christmas Trees Not So
Heavy as Usual.

Heavy as Usual.
| The shipments Of Christmas tree.
| from Vermont this year are not al
heavy as in other years, according *
State Forester Hastings. This Is dus
1 to tightness Of money N cities, in Mr.
| Hastings opinion. Farmers are get
ting only IL to Is cents bunch, with
/ from one 10 five trees in a bunch, Oh
| the average, although 10 carloads were
recently shipped from point neal
Moscow by the Stowe Waterbury cleo
tffc railroad at price considerably
above this figure. 1t should be well
above the average rate, Mr.. Hastings
/! said, to compensate the farmer for the
loss Of pnlpwood worth many times
as much which he would be able to sell
If he kept Ills trees. The average age
Of the conifers used for Christmas
trees is II years, and another II years
is required to bring them to the pulp
| wood stage.
| Logging is picking up after an abb
normally low state Of activities during
| the earliest part Of the season. The
lumber market is stronger, and Mr..
Hastings anticipates as heavy a cut
| in this state as usual
Little pulpwood ii being cut, as this
material Il drug on the market be-
cause Of the reduced business of the
printing trade.
a quarantine on Christmas greens,
nursery stock, forest products, and
stone and quarry products necessitat-
ing certificate Of inspection by fed
eral officer before shipment can be
made il in effect over part Of east
erris Vermont because Of the presence
Of gypsy moth in this area. This quar-
antine, which il being put into effect
by II. I. Bailey, who inspects seed po-
tatoes for certiication by the state de-
partment OF agriculture, includes Lun-
enburg, Plainield, Marshfeld, Danville,
Royalton, Weston, Winhall and Will
mington on the western outskirts of
the infected area. Copies of maps |
showing the quarantined area have |
been sent to nearly every shipping |
point in the state. No fee IL charged |
for inspection at the shipping point.
The brown-tail moth has not been
found in this state in quantities suf
ficent to require quarantine, and the
area is designated as
lightly infested with the gypsy moth.
A section bounded by line running
from Rockport, Me-, west to the mid
die Of New Hampshire and down
through New Hampshire Is designated
Is generally infested. The quarantined
goods cannot be shipped from the gem
orally infested area into the lightly
infested area, or from either into the
he sections not infested.
Lumber and Pulp Exceeds Dairy In
come.
Vermont lumber and pulpwood sold
ind used on farms during 1919 exceed
ID in value BY about nine millions Of
dollars the dairy products produced in
he state during the same year, accord
ng to figures prepared by the Vermont
tate forester, The figures are $50,
'34, 030 for lumber and pulp, and S27. !
07 ,sl3 for dairy products.
Out OF the farmers four best cash :
rops, orchard fruits, potatoes. dairy I,
roducts and lumber and pulp, the last !,
wo items totalled over 80 per cent of !
NE pfoitts ~ ~ tlhiHieu. He AitituHt !.
4 lumber and pulp actually sold ex
eeded the value Of the dairy product !
reduced by over five millions. The !,
mount Of lumber used by farmers az
prdwood, fence posts. lumber and In
tfer ways calculated on the basis of /
Z. s. department Of agriculture re
ort for 1919, was valued at $3,300,000
DR. that year Orchard fruits produced /
i that year were valued at Sl,76l $50, :
nd potatoes at S5,0l0,252. 4
The area of merchantablc timber on J
'ermont farms is given at 473,7l7 for q
)20 on the basis of reports from about 3
alf the farms in the state. n,
The value of Vermont's lumber could Il
e increased many times in a decade, v
t two, in the opinion of State For v
,ter Hastings, if the lumber were 4,
implicitly worked and finished in the
ate. instead of being shipped raw. M
n. Hastings stands ready to demon q
rate his opinion at any time that ii
le state viii appropriate the sum of Ii
5000 on forest products division of m
lie state forestry department. iy