secretary of the Board, and all correspondence and inquiries should be
addressed to him at 1411 Fidelity Building, Baltimore.

Scientific Staff:

F. W. Besley, State Forester .......... ... Baltimore
Kari E. Pfeiffer, Assistant State Forester .. .. Baltimore
Walter J. Quick, Jr., Assistant Forester . .. Baltimore
C. F. Winslow, Extension Forester -........ College Park
H. C. Buckingham, District Forester .. Cumberland
R. H. Hershberger, District Forester ............. Laurel
Nelson H. Fritz, District Forester ............. Salisbury

The State Forester has studied the timber interests of each of the
twenty-three counties in detail and the statistics and information
collected are available to those interested. He will cooperate with
counties, towns, corporations and individuals, in preparing plans for
the protection, management and replacement of trees, woodlots and
timber tracts under an agreement that the party obtaining such
assistance pay at least the field expenses of the men employed.

An important work of the Forester is to encourage methods of
preventing and extinguishing forest fires which annually destroy thou-
sands of dollars worth of young timber. For this purpose a forest
protection system has been established. The State is divided into
three districts, each in charge of a District Forester, assisted by nine
part-time District Forest Wardens and 650 Forest Wardens. There
is also a system of 30 lockout towers for detecting forest fires and
24 forest guards to respond promptly to fire calls. In remote sections
of the State, telephone lines are maintained for reporting forest fires
and 10 short wave radio stations have been established for communica-
tion with fire fighters. The laws against setting out fires are very
strict. The State and Counties divide the expense of extinguishing
fires.

"The Department also administers nine state forests and five state
parks, comprising about 68,000 acres in eleven different counties.
The main purpose of the forests is for timber growing and watershed
protection, but they also serve along with the state parks as a recrea-
tion ground for the people of the State, being visited every year by
thousands for camping and other forms of recreation.

The Roadside Tree Law directs the Department of Forestry to
protect those trees growing within the right-of-way of any public
highway in the State, and no tree can be cut or trimmed by a corpora-
tion or individual without a permit from the Forestry Department,
after application has been made to the State Forester. The Forestry
Department cooperates with the State Roads Commission and other
agencies in tree planting along highways.

A State Forest Nursery, established in 1914, furnishes trees at cost
for planting forests, windbreaks, and along roadsides.

STATE WEATHER SERVICE.
Custom House, Baltimore

Name Custom House.
Edward B. Mathews, Director Johns Hopkins University Baltimore
John R. Weeks, Meteorologist, U. S. Custom House Baltimore
The State Weather Service continues its work of compilation of
local statistics regarding climatic conditions and in the dissemination
of information regarding the climatology and current weather of
Maryland under the Regents of the University of Maryland through
the State Geologist as successor of the Maryland State Weather Ser-
vice Commission. The State Geologist ex-officio is Director, perform-