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which are just coming up, the length of the 

 seed-bed, figuring each row, aggregating no 

 less than three miles. 



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Private Forestry in Pennsylvania 



On lands owned by him near Reading, Pa., 

 Jacob Nolde carries on forestry operations, 

 employing a professional forester. Under 

 his direction, says the Reading Telegram, 

 there have already, been planted hundreds of 

 thousands of trees, and important investiga- 

 tions are being carried on as to trees best 

 adapted to this locality, as well as to the dis- 

 eases to which the trees as most subject. It 

 it impossible to expect that Mr. Nolde's ex- 

 ample will be extensively followed at once, 

 but he is pointing the way by which the 

 wealth of the country may be greatly added 

 to during the coming generation, and when 

 the people wake up to the great possibilities 

 of the reforestation, on scientific lines, of the 

 great acreage of waste lands that lie within 

 the borders of the county, it will only be 

 necessary to follow in the path which he has 

 marked out. The extent of Mr. Nolde's op- 

 erations may be judged by the fact that his 

 plantings, this spring, ran to the number of 

 some 150,000 trees. 



Washington 



A commission of twelve men has been ap- 

 pointed by Governor Hay to devise a com- 

 prehensive scheme of forest legislation. The 

 commission is to study the logged-off lands 

 problem, forest fire protection, reforestation 

 of lands unfitted for agricultural purposes, 

 and similar matters, embodying their investi- 

 gations into a report, which will be trans- 

 mitted by the government to the next legis- 

 lature 



The members of the commission are : A. G. 

 Avery, lawyer, Spokane; J. J. Brown, presi- 

 dent Washington Conservation League, Spo- 

 kane; George S. Long, president Washington 

 Forest Fire Association, Tacoma ; E. G. Ames, 

 vice-president. Port Gamble, and D. P. Si- 

 mons, Jr., chief fire warden, Washington 

 Forest Fire Association ; J. J. Donovan, 

 Bellingham, president Washington Logged-oflf 

 Lands Asociation ; Prof. F.- K. Benson, Uni- 

 versity of Washington ; George E. Boes, 

 Seattle; Prof. F. G. Miller, dean of the for- 

 estry school. University of Washington ; 

 R. W. Douglas, elective secretary Washing- 

 ton Conservation Association; Frank H. 

 Lamb, Hoquiam, secretary Western Forestry 

 and Conservation Association, and Prof. R. W. 

 Thatcher, dean of the agricultural school of 

 the state college at Pullman. All are mem- 

 bers of the Washington Conservation Asso- 

 ciation. 



EDUCATION 



University of Wisconsin 



In considering its educational opportunities 

 and responsibilities in connection with the 

 new forest products laboratory, the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, recognizing the thorough- 

 ness with which the neighboring universities 

 of Michigan and Minnesota occupy the field 

 of forestry instruction, decided that it could 

 do the best service for education by provid- 

 ing practical courses along special lines, such 

 as the laboratory would offer special facilities 

 for. The announcement of these courses, as 

 planned for the coming year, is now made. 

 They are described as courses of instruction 

 in wood technology and the mechanical en- 

 gineering of woodworking plants. 



The three phases of the problem of saving 

 timbers and using all the present waste from 

 the lumbering and wood manufacturing in- 

 dustries will be considered in the new lec- 

 tures and laboratory practice by the stu- 

 dents, including special study of the physical 

 and chemical properties of wood ; of preserv- 



ing and utilizing not only the timbers, but 

 the stumps, small branches, bark, sawdust, 

 and all the waste bits ; and of the mechanical 

 means of transforming standing timbers into 

 commercial products. 



Four courses in wood distillation, wood 

 preservation, the chemical constituents, and 

 the physical properties of wood will be given 

 by the stafif of government experts in charge 

 of the laboratory. A fifth course in wood 

 manufacturing machinery will be given by 

 Prof. Robert McKeown, of the engineering 

 college. 



In the course on the properties of wood, 

 the study will be mainly of the elementary 

 structure of different species and its effect 

 on the value of woods for use in various 

 arts and industries. Methods of testing 

 woods and conditioning them will also be 

 shown in the laboratory demonstrations. The 

 course will be given during the first half of 

 the first semester. 



The chemical constituents and fibers of 

 wood, with reference to the uses made of the 



