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Title: Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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shootingrobins for a potpie. Measures employed to check and extinguish fire: water pails, hcse, shovels,axes, brush, poles, and anything that would or could do any good. Number of men called outto fight fire : forty-five men and boys. Total number of days labor by men called out: aboutfifty, if all of them put in accounts. Some of them say they will not do so. I gave the boysonly half price. Is that O. K. ? This fire was on a rough, hilly and rocky wood lot, which wascut over the last two winters by Charles Curtis. He notified me of the fire and promised toreturn with four men to fight it until we could get a crew on the spot. I ordered more menthere immediately, and had worked two and one half hours when he came and served a writtennotice on me that he would not help any more, as he had to do his haying, and said that it wasmy business to put out the fire. He retained a copy of this notice to put on file. If he hadremained and helped us we could have stopped it without much trouble.
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MORNING IN THE CAMP. 5anitar^ Benefits of if)e (Jdirondac^ Forest. THE strongest factor in the forestry movement at present is the demand forforest preservation—a demand which is supported strongly by the manypeople who utilize our forests as a health resort, and by the invalids whofind within their shelter a natural sanitarium where relief can be obtained fromvarious diseases. The sanitary value of our forests cannot be overestimated. In addition to theirfurnishing a summer home for the overcrowded population of our towns and cities, aplace where rest, recuperation and vigor may be gained by our highly nervous andoverworked people, the healthful and purifying influence of coniferous forests hasbeen thoroughly established. The belief that the atmosphere of evergreen forests hasa curative effect upon persons suffering from pulmonary phthisis is a very old one.The old Romans sent patients with ulcerated lungs to Libra, where by breathing thehealthful exhalations of the pines with whic

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