. American forestry. Forests and forestry. NATIONAL FOREST WORK 255 government land will be taken, the stumpage estimated, and a report made of the number of turpentine cups that, in accordance with the latest federal regulations, may properly be placed on the forest. When the cruisers have completed their work on the Choctawhatchee, a similar in- spection of the Ocala Forest will be made. It is thougkt the surveys will engage the force until the beginning of summer. Sites have been selected for the rangers' houses, to be built by contract. A local estimator figures that the country- school an
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. NATIONAL FOREST WORK 255 government land will be taken, the stumpage estimated, and a report made of the number of turpentine cups that, in accordance with the latest federal regulations, may properly be placed on the forest. When the cruisers have completed their work on the Choctawhatchee, a similar in- spection of the Ocala Forest will be made. It is thougkt the surveys will engage the force until the beginning of summer. Sites have been selected for the rangers' houses, to be built by contract. A local estimator figures that the country- school and road funds will profit by the tur- pentining, grazing, timber cutting, and other receipts of the Choctawhatchee Forest to the extent of $700 or $800 this first year, since twenty-five per cent of all such reve- nues is to go into these two funds. «? «? )^ The New Pine Tree Nursery of Montana The Forest Service is to have a new nursery in Montana. The Savenac nursery, the twenty-fifth of its kind maintained by the Department of Agriculture for its forest work, is situated in the Lolo National Forest on Savenac Creek, Montana, near De Borgia. The ground was plowed and harrowed last fall, the irrigation ditches run, and an ample water system installed. The tract will be laid out in 150 beds, each four feet by twelve. Over these will be broadcast the best of the seeds of native conifers gathered in the forest the past autumn. To prevent mice and birds from eating the seeds each bed will be protected by a lath and wire frame. This will also serve to shade the delicate plantlets during the tender period of their first year's life. A water system will supply the means of sprinkling the seeds and irrigating the young trees during the warmer, drier months. One man will be kept con- stantly at work watering the thirsty soil and otherwise caring for his interesting charge. The Savenac nursery will have an annual productive capacity of 1,500,000 seedlings. When one year old—beginning
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