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Virginia Receives ‘ IV
Income From Forests
Virginia's share of the income from her national forests this year ' amounted to $35,816—which will 4 *be divided among 30 counties itt ' the Blue Ridge and westward.
J. W. O’Byrne, forester at VPI, said the sum represents 25 per cent of hte total; and that another 10 per cent (amounting to. ' $14,330 this year) is set aside to construct roads and trails within the forests. , O’Byrne points out, however, that the greatest value of these forests is not the cash income, nor the timber. It is the water they provide for domestic and industrial use. Almost every city, town, and village in the Shenandoah valley, he says, is dependent on watersheds within the George Washington National Forest. Reservoirs from which Woodstock, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Clifton Forge, and Lynchburg get their supplies are located in the same forest. Plans are underway for asimilar service to Stuarts Draft and nearby rural areas.
"In level country, timber may be the most valuable produce of the forest, but in the mountains it is water,” says O’Byrne.
Disease Controls Listed
For Cherries, Plums
A disease which makes a knotty black growth on the twigs of cherries and plums often plagues home fruit growers, says John M. Amos, associate plant pathologist at VPL
Although control measures for -* heavy infestations are not very satisfactory, pruning out all infected wood will help fight infestations, Amos says. Make the cuts 4 to 6 inches below the knots.
Burn the wood that is pruned out, because it can spread infection. The knots usually do not show up until the second year; so two years of pruning are necessary to make satisfactory headway against the unsightly disease. *: Another control practice is to check wild plums or other wild trees in the neighborhood.
Sprays containing copper, applied for leaf-spot disease control, also will help control black knotdisease.
FARM WOODLANDS ^
(By Caleb M. Pennock)
As with many things, trees aren't appreciated until they are scarce, /t one time our vast forest reserves seemed inexhaustable. We hacked and sawed every tree we came to without thinking about their eventual replacement.
Due to careless thinkers, the cry “Woodman, spdre that tree” has come to meaff much more than a phrase of classical sentiment. The trees found by the early settlers have largely disappeared. Our timber areas in Virginia are growing only about one-half of the commercial timber crop of
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