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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



every form of industrial development in 

 New England, notably farming, fruit cul- 

 ture, dairy interests and every form of soil 

 production, as well as factory industries 

 and forestry and forest preservation. Later 

 it is planned that the bureau develop va- 

 rious agencies throughout New England 

 for the same industrial purposes. The ex- 

 pense of the enterprise will fall upon the 

 three railroad corporations. 



The plan has been under consideration 

 for some years by the New Haven com- 

 pany and was expedited by signs of a farm- 

 ing revival in New England, as shown by 

 the census returns and the larger values of 

 New England farms, as well as their adap- 

 tation to new products, especially in the 

 line of scientific fruit culture. It is time 

 that the New England railroads learned 

 something from the development work of 

 southern and western roads. Hitherto they 

 have done little to help their section. 



The Adirondack Lumber Cut Decreasing 



Statistics collected by Superintendent of 

 State Forests Pettis of New York indicate 

 that timber operations in the Adirondacks 

 are decreasing owing to a lack of available 

 timber. The amount of lumber cut in 1910 

 as reported to the state, is about 516,000,- 

 000 feet, board measure. This is a de- 

 crease of nearly 100,000,000 feet in the last 

 year. The amount cut for pulp wood last 

 year was considerably greater than that 

 cut in 1909, but while the total amount of 

 timber cut for all commercial purposes was 

 more than a billion feet a year in 1908 and 

 1909 the total was considerably below the 

 billion mark in 1910. 



The Protection of Native Plants 



The Society for the Protection of Native 

 Plants has printed on cotton for outdoor 

 use notices reading: 



SPARE THE FLOWEBS 



Thoughtless people are destroying 

 the flowers by pulling them up by the 

 roots or by picking too many of them 



CUT what flowers you take, and 

 leave plenty to go to seed. 



These notices can be obtained from the 

 secretary of the society, Miss M. E. Carter, 

 Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, 

 Mass. We should like to add to the above 

 notice that too many wild flowers are 

 picked without any special object. Many 

 of our wild flowers that are beautiful in 

 their own homes lose almost immediately 

 their freshness and charm when picked. 

 Why not leave them where they grow for 

 others to enjoy? Some people when in the 

 woods and fields have a mania for picking 

 every flower they see, although often it is 

 thrown away without even being carried 

 home. 



Pennsylvania's Thrifty Forest Policy 



E. A. Ziegler, director of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Forest Academy at Mont Alto, gave 

 a lecture in the Lehigh University forestry 

 course last month. Speaking of the work 

 of the state he said: "The Pennsylvania 

 state expenditures for forestry are proceed- 

 ing on an economical and safe basis and a 

 valuable state property is being created 

 with a net income promised, beside the in- 

 valuable benefits of water, creation of raw 

 materials for large industries and the 

 building of homes in the forests them- 

 selves, and the financial advancement ot 

 the entire state." Mr. Ziegler described 

 the method and work of the forest acade- 

 my, which trains foresters for the state 

 service, graduating ten each year, and dis- 

 cussed at length the cost of growing for- 

 ests and probable returns. 



Frank J. Philips 



The Forest Club Annual of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska, have an appreciate note 

 by F. B. Moody on Professor Phillips: 



"With deep regret the announcement is 

 made of the sudden and untimely death of 

 Frank .T. Phillips, professor of forestry in 

 the University of Nebraska. He died at his 

 home in Lincoln, February thirteenth, nine- 

 teen hundred eleven. Professor Phillips 

 was born in Grandville, Michigan, Septem- 

 ber twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred eighty- 

 one. After graduating from the Grandville 

 High School he worked his way through 

 the Michigan Agricultural College, and 

 completed the work in nineteen hundred 

 three with the degree of bachelor ot 

 science. The same year he entered the 

 branch of extension in the bureau of for- 

 estry studying forest conditions through- 

 out the middle west until the fall of nine- 

 teen hundred four. His intense interest 

 in forestry together with his great love 

 for outdoor life caused him to take up that 

 study in the University of Michigan. For- 

 estry School where he received the degree 

 of bachelor of arts in nineteen hundred 

 five, and the degree of master of 

 science in forestry in nineteen hundred 

 six. After completing this course in the 

 university he received an appointment as 

 forest assistant in the Forest Service and 

 spent a year in the southwest. In nineteen 

 hundred seven he was appointed professor 

 of forestry in the University of Nebraska, 

 which position he held until his death. 

 Prof. Phillips was a self-made man in 

 every sense of the word. By hard knocks 

 he had learned the practical side of for- 

 estry and his knowledge, coupled with keen 

 powers of observation and a brilliant mind, 

 served to make him a splendid leader and 

 teacher, whose enthusiasm, cheerfulness 

 and great appreciation of the efforts of 

 others, will leave a lasting impression upon 

 all who knew him." 



