Illustrations PAGE Fig. 1. Work of Hickory Bark Beetle.... Fig. 2. Section of wood cut from white walnut which has been en སེ་ཨེབོམ་ཆེ Fig. 9. Fig. 10. Fig. 11. Fig. 12. Young Yellow Poplar so weakened by timber-worms that it 40 42 43 44 Fig. 13. Leaflet from small Ash sprout where damage from leaf-eat- Fig. 18. Chestnut-Leaf-roller and effect upon foliage. Washed and eroded condition of a low hill from which all timber and underbrush had been removed... . . . 60 Fig. 23. Fig. 22. Young growth of Red Cedar on hillside, showing nature's method of soil binding against the agencies of erosion.... Catalpa planting on farm of Rockhill Bros. Fig. 24. Catalpa planting, three years old, on farm of A. K. Kennert, north of Fort Wayne, Ind..... Fig. 25. Planting of Black Locust in edge of woods on farm of J. H. Gerding, west of Fort Wayne, Ind..... Fig. 26. Fifteen-year-old black walnut planting on farm of Anna Congleton, three miles southwest of Frankfort, Ind...... Fig. 27. Wind-break or shelter belt of Cottonwood on farm of James Mackentire, two miles southeast of Frankfort. ..... Fig. 28. Black Walnut planting on farm of J. C. Birdsell, two miles Fig. 30. Same as Figs. 28 and 29.. Administration Building at State Forest Reservation Governor J. Frank Hanly STATE OF INDIANA, BOARD OF FORESTRY, HON. J. FRANK HANLY, Governor: Dear Sir-In compliance with the legal requirements, we have the honor to submit herewith the manuscript of the Seventh Annual Report for the Department of Forestry. It contains papers of discussion and explanation of the various work accomplished by the office and of experiments and forestry work at the State Forest Reservation and Forestry Experimental Station at Henryville, Clark County, Indiana. We express our sincere appreciation of your courtesy and cooperation in the cause represented by this Department, and feel that the subject of forestry and the work accomplished should receive from the people an intelligent and thoughtful observance as affecting the best interests of all. Yours very truly, F. C. CARSON, President. W. H. FREEMAN, Secretary. Preface The subject of forestry in all its various features has received as much intelligent thought and consideration the past year as any other one current movement affecting the general welfare. The most thoughtful people throughout the land are according to it their high appreciation. It is not easy to state the exact accomplishment in the work because of inadequate means to secure data and co-operate closely with the forestry communities. Not sufficient funds are provided the Board for its systematic organization of the work throughout the State by counties or districts. The actual office expenses by reason of correspondence, arrangement and distribution of good forestry literature and other educational features, as lectures and travel, demand all the funds provided. The financial equipment of the office does no more than provide for these details well in conjunction to the office expenses of the Reservation and Experimental Station. Under the present conditions something must be neglected and it has been the systematic organization of the forestry work in the counties and data pertaining to them. Provision must be made for a competent assistant in the office and his expenses to do these things before the office can perform its duties fully and well. As was suggested in the last report more power should be given the Board for the control of shade and ornamental trees growing along the highways and in the cities and towns against linemen. This was attempted during the last session of the General Assembly, but all was lost because of the radicalism in the bill attempted, and because at an unguarded moment the modified bill was killed on its final reading by an enemy or the accomplice of an enemy to the movement to protect such property and accord to it an intelligent regard and ownership right. The Board hopes for a concerted action to gain this needed regulation at the hands of the next General Assembly. But whatever is attempted must be intelligent and contain equal rights to all parties concerned or failure will be the result again. The experiments at the Forestry Experimental Station are ad vancing very satisfactorily and at this early date are evidences of what the success of forestry may be to those who engage in it. The work now accomplished shows what practical things in forestry may be done if only attempted. As an object lesson versus theory, it may be acknowledged far beyond expectations and general belief in the degree of success. The tabulations given in the report convey an idea of the advancement of the experiments, and as years go on they will without question become more and more convincing and prove to the unbeliever the value of the institution. As an object lesson of merit it receives the highest praise from forestry students and experts, and as a property of value it meets the mind of the confident business man who can discern the distant aggregates. It is an example of doing things as against talking about doing them, and therefore appeals to good judgments. The Board sincerely appreciates the great influence of the press in the educational formation of a right forestry sentiment, and urges that the same keen interest and devotion of the past be extended in the future. The various literary and civic federation clubs have added much to the increased interest and advancement of the forestry movement. To them also the Board expresses its esteem and urges them to greater achievements in the work of the civic principles, "cities beautiful," but warns them against radicalism as suggested in the discussion of needed legislation. Intelligence, fairness and equal rights to all interested should characterize every step taken in the advancement of the cause of forestry. The "farmers' institute," that grand organization for the promotion of agricultural interests, should do more to influence the forestry cause than it is. By reason of the plan and manner in which it is organized and conducted, it could be made a factor equal to the public press in the formation of a right forestry sentiment and the Board suggests that it do more toward advancing this worthy cause. BOARD OF FORESTRY. |