. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 40-45. Forests and forestry. 8 good faith). Sometimes the **incendiary" starts a fire for some such purpose as improving pasturage or the production of berries. No one has a right to burn another's property, without his consent, for any purpose. Education will reach some of these individuals but mostlv they are ''old timers" whose ideas, we hope, will die with them. The best way to prevent incendiary forest fires is to offer rewards for arrest and conviction and to display posters making the offer known; to catch the inc
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 40-45. Forests and forestry. 8 good faith). Sometimes the **incendiary" starts a fire for some such purpose as improving pasturage or the production of berries. No one has a right to burn another's property, without his consent, for any purpose. Education will reach some of these individuals but mostlv they are ''old timers" whose ideas, we hope, will die with them. The best way to prevent incendiary forest fires is to offer rewards for arrest and conviction and to display posters making the offer known; to catch the incendiary and make an example of him; to arouse public sentiment against incendiarism; to watch closely areas where incendiarism is suspected and put in patrolmen or detectives if ne- cessary. In the si)ring of 1925 Josef Nonkosty was caught setting forest fires in York County and upon being convicted received a peni tententiary sentence of from 2 to 5 years. The woman furnishing the information that led to conviction received from the State a reward of two hundred and fifty dollars. In some localities the local people are refused hunting privileges and fires result. Where the cooperation of the natives in forest protection is sought by the land owner and in return the hunting privilege is allowed, it often results favorably, even tho strangers are barred from luuiting. A rate of pay for fire fighting lower than the usual pay for laborers, or dependence on a regularly organized fire fighting crew is advisable where fires are started to secure work. In other words where certain conditions produce an unfavorable attitude in the mind of the incendiary it is well to remove or alter the conditions if possible. RAILROAD POOREST FIRES Railroad forest fires come from sparks from the engine stack, from hot coals dropping from the ash pan, from burning tie piles on t\u right-of-way, from hot tobacco or matches thrown from the train oi dropped by workmen, from hot clinkers being thrown from
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