Show ES PLANTED 2 f YOUTHFUL r lAIHR Farm Utilized by byThe The fhe Dozen Dads Club ORK Dec 14 Does H.-Does Does New Newstate ew state appreciate the fact that rl rk of reforestation is setting a few if any other states Tt can even approach much qua filial quai asks The Conservationist I I study tudY of the work already edlin dJin New ew Yorks York's forest area or ot vork ork that today is being done by f all over the great with p and a comparison Nor work that is being done done or or rather th work that is not being done done done- leads to the conclusion New York state is setting the ret ret re- re II t tation tion pace for the nation This E. E ca se for diminution of effort toL to- to L the reforestation of the states state's i land for the work ai ai- ai started r great as It Jt is is only in ifancy when the area not touched New York has been d to sc set this Pace Pace- because it is 1 10 f ne he first forest growing states l 1 he pinch of timber shortage of f the for- for 1 h consideration pl planting ting problem at a time when I f 1 er states refuse even to think planting cuto cr lands ands W York State College of Fort For- For t fr t Syracuse has been doing tork in the line of reforesting the significant developments I he e year in m actual forest planting s B B. 3 Bullock in The Con- Con was the organization ing in g of a small stock com com- to plant abandoned farms and which promises to be duplicated times throughout Otsego and ad- ad counties this was what has come to be is as The Forest of the Dozen I t s at a at Coopers Cooperstown town in a district far What U is ordinarily considered the thet i t rea of the state but in a county fl acres are normally fitted i forest growth in kTe Dads Dads' Forest was planted installment by a stock com corn wI of twelve young business men i sc secures ures its name from the fact I I was allowed to be a stock- stock I I erbo did not have ha a child under I ears ars of age I This is being planted not for foi our- our rs' rs ut as an endowment Insurance lo and no one who is not J esting for his children is want want- his company said saia one of its ders f The h Dozen Dads' Dads bought an aban- aban ltd farm of at acres The price w was as Jd 5 an acre or thereabouts I t was worked-out worked farm land sult- sult I only for a crop of ot trees but in a location near the lake Jake The Thet t years year's ears ear's planting was only 2 l s. s for the planters want to conre con- con re 16 their planting from year to year ear the forest crop will be seen Inears in ears ars to come IIi iri various stages of If Each year more trees b until the entire tract is r sred pred d. d Trees for all planting are se- se froni om the state nurseries maln- maln y the conservation commission the planting work was actually bY a party of at forestry students w vere re organized In groups of two yielding i the mattock and the other lYing ying the pails containing the young I Tand setting them A record was Wished ed by one pair pall who planted trees threes In On one day day and and this was was was' done by unseasoned boys soft from the winter in the classroom The students were housed at Cooperstown during the expedition which was supervised by a technical forester from the state college college col col- col- col lege ege faculty Ot Otsego ego county was not only the scene of this unique planting but it also sounder the keynote for the communal communal com com- forest development of the state It was in Otsego county that the I scheme was developed for the establishment establishment esta I of township forests forests each each I tract to be owned by the town and to tobe tobe be planted over an extended period of years ears but so organized that eventually I Ithe the various forests would be I units of a county forest system The rne I first of ot these township forests has not yet been started but The Dozen Dads Dads' Forest was one outcome of the agitation agitation agitation tion and plans are going forward for forthe forthe forthe the planting of the first of the township units next year vear |