Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-07

annually on a 1alr ValuatlOn, ana MS
crop of timber taxed when harvest
ed, he will then be position to pay
the taxes when he is in funds. Plant
ing will become a much more tempt
| ing investment field for the land
owner who today puts most of his
profits into the securities of COM
| panies doing business outside the
State.
| In conclusion, he pointed out that
enough has been done in a prelimi-
nary way in this State to show that
under proper conditions reforestation
can be profitable, and second, that
! we already have some of the proper
| conditions and by united effort can
obtain others.
, White Pine Blister Rust
| The white pine crop of Maine is
| the farmers best savings bank, de-
clarcd S. B. Detwiler, forest patholo-
| gist in charge of blister rust control,
| u. s. Department of Agriculture,
Washington. D. c.. who was the next
| speaker and discussed the subject
| white Pine Blister Rust
| He stated that the pine owners of
Maine have heard of the white pine
blister rust, but few are aware that
| this destructive disease is now prev
alent in the majority of Names pine
lots. The actual condition is shown
| by survey of the pines on q rod
wide strip, IS miles long which was
run in 1920 from Brunswick to
| Farmingdale and Woolwich, Me.
! Over 1000 white pines grew on this
strip and 60 percent. were found to
be infected with blister rust.
Every white pine lot in Maine is in
danger from this disease if currant
and gooseberry bushes are now grow
ing within 900 feet. the speaker
pointed out. 1t cannot spread from
one pine tree to another, nor does it
grow on raspberries or any other
plants except currants. gooseberries
and white pines. Pulling up currant
and gooseberry bushes is the only
! remedy. but this will not save the
| trees that have been attacked by the
| blister rust.
The pine owners of Maine must
pull up currant and gooseberry
| puSllS> Cit IL liISS SCdlS III ll1e SpEiuE
of 1922 if they desire to save the bulk
of their pine. Pines under 20 years
old are especially in need of this pro-
lection.
Timber Crop" says Barnes
For proper understanding of the
| force of any arguments used this
afternoon. we must agree on the
fundamental proposition that timber
is a crop product of the SOIL like
oats or hay" said Charles p. Barnes,
speaker of the House in the last
legislative session, in his opening
statement on the subject of State
Forests. Pursuing he idea that our
timber is crop" he continued
AS a State, we have prospered
from our annual reaping, but. we
have reaped where we lave not sown:
and as State we must husband our
present resources
Reason. when allowed to assert
herself calmly, suggests that repro
duction of the timber crop, like re-
production of any other crop can be
assured only when it is financially
lpiollldplC, anu liz wv IlSE VI IlIlDeI
lands can be expected to embark on
reforestation only when there is a
reasonable certainty of a fair return
upon the money invested.
$50. forgetting sentiment, we in
quire, is the growing of forest
products or State forests to be at a
profit:
1--WE want nothing of the.New York
Plan.
New York has today almost two
million acres in state forests and
park lots. but the original New York
forestry law specified that no cut
ting was to be done on her state for
ests, and aside from other values
such as the maintenance of the water
supply, the most of the New York
state forests serve onlv as shelters to
the costly camps of the very wealthy
of the state
NOW on the questions of profit
from artificial reforestation some OF
you are experimenting, and we look
to you for information.
Much has been observed as to tim
Der growth on lots in our State that
We're once titled but are now forests
What can l pay for land no longer
!, profitable for farm operations or
which to grow timber?
'What seed or seedlings shall l in
troduce in any specified area? How
long will be the period of growth
without return while interest charges
are mounting upward with the grow
ing saplings? And, if l join in the
operation of reforestation, will the
State exact an equable tax, or viii
she take from me all that the Insurers
leave me? Will she continue to ta2
this crop from twenty to fifty times
while she taxes the fruit crop once.
Has science yet been hid tell me how
successfully to combat diseases 'o
trunk and foliage? And, with The
imported insect. have We brourht il
the feathered forager. the bird thai
eats the egg cluster and hunts tho
foreign borer to death. through his
galleries blind?
eff State Forest policy is the pro.
motion of a plan for the State grad
ually to take over. by purchase OF
otherwise. the Understands OF the
State. then T am against it.
But if State Forest policy mean.
experiment in reproduction. improve
ment in methods of cutting, and OBJ
ject lessons in fire prevention, the
cultivation of forest growth. DISPOSE
ton of slash. protection against de-
vastation by insects. disease and