NEWS AND NOTES 



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To Get In Under the New Law 



It has just been discovered that Kentucky 

 alone of the Appalachian states has not 

 passed a law permitting the United States 

 to hold land within the state under the 

 new national forest law. Unless this is 

 promptly remedied, therefore, the Blue 

 Grass State will have to be left out of con- 

 sideration for the present. As the Ken- 

 tucky delegation in the House of Repre- 

 sentatives cast five votes against the Weeks 

 bill and none for it, and one of her senators 

 voted against it, this seems a little like 

 poetic justice, but it is rather hard on 

 Representative Stanley, who worked for 

 the bill long and consistently in the Com- 

 mittee on Agriculture, and would have been 

 present to vote tor it but for illness. 



In this connection it is interesting to 

 note that a bill to authorize the national 

 government to establish forest reserves in 

 Pennsylvania has been introduced in the 

 legislature of that state. It is said to be 

 part of the general plan of the flood com- 

 mission for putting a stop to the periodical 

 flood loss in Pittsburgh. Federal, state, 

 county and city government are expected 

 to co-operate in the carrying out of meas- 

 ures which will eventually be the means 

 of Impounding flood waters at their sources 

 and using them during dry seasons. 



Hardy Catalpas tor Iowa 



That the hardy catalpa is one of the best 

 fence post trees that can be grown in Iowa, 

 is the conclusion reached by the Iowa Ex- 

 periment Station. Eighteen-year-old trees 

 that have been properly cared for will yield 

 from 2,000 to 2,500 posts to the acre. The 

 gross annual return per acre per year on 

 the Iowa plantations studied varied from 

 $10.77 to $20.34. Copies of Bulletin 120. 



giving directions for growing catalpas, can 

 be obtained free by writing to the Iowa 

 Experiment Station at Ames. 



Publications ot the United States Geological 

 Survey 



A new list of publications of the United 

 States Geological Survey, just issued, con- 

 tains the titles of more than a thousand 

 books and pamphlets. These reports cover 

 a wide range of subjects. They include 

 not only papers on geology and topography 

 Imt reports on water resources and on tech- 

 nology. The Geological Survey was the 

 nursery of the United States Reclamation 

 Service and the Bureau of Mines,' which 

 now, in full growth, are carrying along 

 successfully work begun by the Survey 

 years ago. The Survey, however, still con- 

 tinues its work on water resources and in- 

 cludes discussions of technology in its an- 

 nual volume "Mineral Resources of the 

 United States." 



A glance at this list will show the great 

 diversity of the subjects considered and the 

 manifold nature of the science of geology. 

 The reports include discussions of geologic 

 chemistry, mineralogy, petrography, and 

 paleontology, as well as ore deposition and 

 other matters of very practical importance. 

 Much of the Survey's late work has been 

 directed to the study of mineral deposits of 

 economic value. The work done in land 

 classification has not yet found detailed 

 expression in the Survey's reports, but 

 some papers prepared as a result of land- 

 classification surveys have been printed an- 

 nually in bulletins entitled "Contributions 

 to economic geology." 



The list may be obtained by applying to 

 the Director of the Survey at Washington. 

 D. C. 



