Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Tema 3,Parte2The Department, 1898 "Report of Pennsylvania Forestry Commission", published in 1896: 1895, pt. 2. |
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Página 22 - ... clerk of said board of commissioners, and he shall keep a correct record of the proceedings of said board in a book to be provided for the purpose, and shall file and preserve all...
Página 11 - That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the several counties of this commonwealth to appoint persons under oath, whose duty it shall be to ferret out and bring to punishment all persons who, either wilfully or otherwise, cause the burning of timber lands, and to take measures to have such fires extinguished where it can be done ; the expenses thereof to be paid out of the county treasury...
Página 92 - ... the passage becomes clogged and the burrow more or less filled with the coarse and fibrous fragments of wood, to get rid of which the grubs are often obliged to open new holes through the bark. The seat of their operations is known by the oozing of the sap and the dropping of the saw-dust from the holes. The bark around the part attacked begins to swell, and in a few years the trunks and limbs will become disfigured and weakened by large porous tumors, caused by the efforts of the trees to repair...
Página 18 - Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the first day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and...
Página 92 - ... the approach of winter, during which they remain at rest in a torpid state. In the spring they bore through the sap-wood, more or less deeply into the trunk, the genera,! course of their winding and irregular passages being in an upward direction from the place of their entrance.
Página 14 - That in consideration of the public benefit to be derived from the planting and cultivation of forest or timber trees, the owner or owners of any land in this Commonwealth planted with forest or timber trees in number not less than twelve hundred to the acre, shall on making due proof thereof, be entitled to receive annually from the commissioners of their respective counties, during the period that the said trees are maintained in sound condition upon the said land, the following sums of money:...
Página 8 - That, at any time from and after the first day of January, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and...
Página 25 - ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and undergo an imprisonment not exceeding three years...
Página 8 - AN ACT To amend the first section of an act, entitled "An act to protect timber lands from fire," approved the second day of June, AD 1870, providing for a penalty in case of the failure of county commissioners to comply with the terms of said act, after demand made upon them by the Commissioner of Forestry, and providing for the Commonwealth bearing part of the expenses incurred under said act.
Página 100 - They deposit their eggs, two or three in a place, upon the trunk or branches especially about the forks, making slight incisions or punctures for their reception with their strong jaws. As many as ninety eggs have been taken from a single beetle.