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It is important that highways through the State forests be kept in condition so that in case of fire, fire fighters can be promptly moved by automobile to regions where they are needed. Quick communication would often save vast areas of land from the men

ace.

One important highway, where work should be pushed at once, is the Loon Lake-Duane road.

The DeBar Mountain is notorious for its forest fires, and the route to it is at present almost inaccessible although on the direct road from Loon Lake to Malone.

Convict labor is obtainable from Clinton and Great Meadows which are both contiguous to the Adirondacks; work thoroughly beneficial to the convict is procurable at small cost. Why not use it for all it is worth?

Cooperation between the Conservation, Highways and Prison departments is recommended, for there are many subjects in which their work is inter-related. Governor Whitman has shown wisdom in his appointments of commissioners to these offices, and we shall look for continued progress in conservation work during Mr. Pratt's Pratt's administration Conservation Commissioner.

Herbert S. Carpenter.
President.

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Pay your annual dues promptly if you have not already done so. Receipts for dues will be sent out with the next issue of the Rivet.

From A Neighbor

The Massachusetts Forestry Association has invited the members of the New York State Forestry Association to join forces in a tour of the National Parks and Forests next summer. Here is a splendid opportunity for one to learn a great deal about forest conditions in the West and to enjoy a fine vacation. The educational features of of this trip should be especially noted. On each of the National Forests visited it is expected that the supervisor of the Forest will be with the party. This will also be true of most of the National Parks. For detailed information about this admirable project write to the Secretary of this Association. Ask for booklet "The National Parks and Forests-A Tour."

It is with genuine regret that we learn of the death of Mr. Ceasar Cone of Greensboro, N. C. Mr. Cone had been a patron of many organizations and among them was the New York State Forestry Association. He became interested in the work of forestry in New York during his many summers at Lake Placid.

"The Conservationist" is the appropriate title of a new monthly publication of the Conservation Commission. We hope that future issues of "New York Forestry" will be able to approach "Conservationist" number one in general attractiveness.

THE AESTHETIC FORESTER

Paragraphs about shade trees, tree repair and highway improvement

To Secure Reliability in Tree
Repair Work

The U. S. Department of Agriculture is suggesting a plan that may help put commercial tree repair on a better basis. Owners are urged to have a definite written contract with the men they employ, and the following is suggested as a model for such contract:

(1) No climbing spurs shall be used on any part of a tree.

(2) The shoes worn by the workmen shall have soft rubber bottoms.

(3) Ordinary commercial orange shellac shall be applied to cover the cut edges of sapwood and cambium (which is the soft formative tissue from which the new wood and bark originate) within five minutes after the final trimming cut is made.

(4) All cut or shellaced surfaces shall be painted with commercial creosote, followed by thick coal tar.

(5) All diseased, rotten, discolored, water-soaked, or insecteaten wood shall be removed in cavity work and the cavity inspected by the owner or his agent before it is filled.

(6) Only a good grade of Portland cement and clean, sharp sand in no weaker mixture than 1 to 3 shall be used to fill cavities.

(7) The contractor shall repair free of expense any defects that may appear in the work within one year.

We heartily approve of these conditions, and make one further suggestion to members of the Association. Before signing any contract, write to the Secretary and get further information about the firm or individual with whom you propose to deal. We will probably be able to tell you whether or not he employs conscientious and skilled tree artisans, or cement slingers. There are many funny ones in the business!

Shade Trees

This is the title of a veritable manual on the subject, published by the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass., as Bulletin No. 170. Mr. Geo. E. Stone, the author, has covered the subjects of tree repair, the characteristics, adaptation, diseases and care of shade trees in a very interesting publication.

Native Material

The best choice is always the native, the indigenous material, from which then we select what is best to carry out our plans.—Tree Life.

Spring Care for Your Favorite Trees

Cut away dead wood from trees and burn.

Set out young trees when the ground can be worked.

Cut out portions of willow and poplar infested with the Willow and Poplar-borers.

Cut Black Knot on plum and cherry trees.

Prune currants and gooseberries, being careful not to remove the bearing wood and leave the non-bearing wood.

Cut off Cedar apples, for these produce the rust found on pears and apples the following summer.

Red Pine

Before buds open prune off and burn all twigs of sycamore and oak affected by Anthracnose.

Thoroughly dig out and cauterize cavities. Leave filling until weather is settled.

Spray silver maples while dormant with miscible oils for Cottony-maple-scale. Don't use oils on hard maples.

Take out hickories infested with the Hickory-bark beetle and locusts badly infested with the Locust-borer. Either burn the wood or peel the bark of the hickories and burn this before spring.

-Hints from "Tree Talk."

TREES YOU CAN PLANT THIS SPRING
White Pine Black Oak

Pin Oak

Chestnut Oak

Write

Douglas Spruce Strong seedings or transplants of the above suitable for forest or nursery planting. for list of sizes and prices and advice on what will fit your conditions.

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TREES TO SHADE LAWN AND STREET

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12x4 inches in diameter, 10 to 18 feet high.

Silver Leaf Linden Elm

Pin Oak

or rootpruned to

produce

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Trees of excellent quality, grown wide apart, transplanted

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4x8 inches in diameter, 20 to 30 feet high, 12 to 20 feet spread of tops and roots. Dug carefully to preserve an abundance of fibrous roots and insure a successful growth. Send for catalog and make selections from the catalog or select personally. Satisfactory growth guaranteed either way. These trees are successfully shipped.

Firs

EVERGREENS
Japanese Yews

Spruces

Cedars

Pines 2 to 8 feet high, rootpruned, grown wide apart, dug carefully with good balls of earth filled with an abundance of fibrous roots. One forester said, "Why! I did not know you had such a large variety of good evergreens." Can you use a carload or less for planting around your country estate?

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8 to 20 feet high, grown wide apart and delivered with large balls of earth, clamped by canvas carried on a platform. As safe as carrying a fish in a pail of water. Do you need a screen to the street or adjacent property to make a small country place as private as a large one?

SHRUBS

Many new and rare shrubs you will be interested to try. Send for list. It is lots of fun to watch them develop.

Rhododendrons

Hardy Flowers

All stock from Hicks Nursery guaranteed to grow satisfactorily or replaced free.
Send for Home Landscapes. It has an interesting chapter on unusual food plants.

DEPT. 2.

HICKS NURSERIES
WESTBURY, L. I.

ISAAC HICKS & SON

Experiments in the use of the airplane in detecting forest fires have been tried out successfully in Wisconsin. Mr. L. A. Vilas has been employed as an airplane scout and states that at a height of 1,500 feet on a clear day a fire sixty miles away is visible to the naked eye. It is the opinion of Mr. Frank Moody, the Wisconsin Conservation Commissioner, that airplanes will eventually do away with some of the observation towers maintained in the forest areas. This use of the airplane is in admirable contrast to that of marking the position of guns, armies and supply trains in the promotion of insane work of destruction that is marring the face of these modern days.-A report of the Western Forestry and Conservation Congress and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

Orders for a million and a half board feet of mahogany billets, to be used in the manufacture of airplane propeller blades have

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Order these books through the New York State Forestry Association, Chamber of Commerce, Syracuse, N. Y.

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