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Show FORESTERS OF NEWYORKMEET First Township Forest Project Will Be planted on j Holidays I (By International Xews Service.) SYRACUSE, N. Y. That New York state is setting tho pace for" all of America In a realization of the val-J uo of its forest areas was disclosed , at the opening of forest week at the1 New York Stato College of" Forestry ) when the following planting Jobs scheduled for April alone were made public by F. F. Moon, acting dean of, the colloget j. The first township forest project) In American will be launched in Ot-, sego county tho week beginning Apll 13, when the first forests will bo,L planted, with general public holidays, , j of what will eventually bo a public J forest In each of the twenty-four In townships of tho county. At least 1 0,UOO iree3 will be planted in this ffl manner, with as many more at thojfl same time by private parties. Similar planting, though possibly j I not no extensive, will be done within' the next two weeks by townships orjB villages in Chenango and Herkimer jP counties. 1 1 Tho city of Malono will plant 26,-H 000 pine and 10 000 or 15,000 trees of other species the last of the month. The College of Forestry Itself, which is to supervise all of theso pantings, will plant 20,000 trees on its own forest within the city limits of Syracuse. , The conference was dovoted entirely en-tirely to probloms of such plantings so that the campaign originated In thij state can bo carried on to a much greater extent in tho years to come. The value of the forest for timber and for hunting, for wood alcohol, silk stockings, and as a farm crop will bo discussed at tho various sessions of tho conference. Dr. C. C. Adams, director of the Roosevelt Wild LIfo Forest Experiment Experi-ment Station, will tell how science can help make the forest more attractive at-tractive to the sportsmen. J. E. Rhodes, of New Orleans, secretary of the Southorn Pino association, will tell how tho lumborman looks at the forest problem. Chemical utilization of wood, by which it Is converted Into jfl artificial silk and tho like, will be another topic discussed. Tho week will open with a discus- I 1 fl sion of public forests, grown to pro- ' duco a salablo crop of timber, Tues- j day tho farmer's forest as a crop and f incomo producer will be discussed. Wednesday tho lumbormon will havo their innings. Thursday v. Ill be wood- H craft and wild life day, while the pa- H per industry's problems will be taken up tho last day of the forest week. Six to eight lectures a day will bo tho fl intensive schedulo of tho week. |