NEWS AND NOTES 



Congress of Experiment Station Workers 



For the first time, the United States is to 

 be represented among the forest experiment 

 station workers of the old world. The United 

 States Department of Agriculture is a mem- 

 ber of the International Association of Forest 

 Experiment Stations, and the Forester has 

 designated Prof. Filibert Roth, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, as the representative 

 of the Forest Service at the convention of 

 the association, which will be held in Brus- 

 sels in September in connection with the 

 Brussels centennial exposition. 



This first participation of the United States 

 in a meeting of the international association 

 is most significant. It means that this coun- 

 try has begun to work out original experi- 

 mental results in forestry which are consid- 

 ered worthy of being presented before Euro- 

 pean foresters ; and it means, too, that Amer- 

 ican foresters are to gain all the advan- 

 tages which must come of active cooperation 

 with forest experiment station workers 

 throughout the world. 



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Forestry in Missouri State University 



The curators of the University of Missouri 

 have voted to establish a school of forestry 

 at the university. 



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Reforesting to Protect Water Supply at Guelph 



The city of Guelph, which stands foremost 

 in the Dominion of Canada as regards mu- 

 nicipal ownership of public utilities, is now 

 started upon a new enterprise. About four 

 and one-half miles from the city, and well 

 above it, lie i68 acres of land surrounding 

 the springs which provide the city with 

 water; over one-fourth of this is already 

 well supplied with trees, but the need for 

 further forest protection of the springs was 

 seen by the people to be imperative, as the 

 demand upon the water supply was increas- 

 ing with the city's growth. Accordingly, the 

 city has set out 40,000 young trees in the 

 locality. White pine, Norway spruce, larch, 

 and Scotch pine have been used, about thirty 

 acres having been planted up to date. 



The cost has been $13.23 per acre, which 

 cost is for the trees, planting, and care only, 

 the value of the land not having to be con- 

 sidered, as it had no rental value, for, owing 

 to its position relative to the water supply, it 



had to remain idle. The trees are reported 

 to be doing well after the first few months' 

 test. — Christian Science Monitor (Boston). 



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Good Results at Corbin Park 



J. G. Peters, of Washington, chief of the 

 office of state and private cooperation in the 

 United States Forest Service, and State For- 

 ester Edgar C. Hirst, of New Hampshire, 

 have recently inspected the forests in Corbin 

 Park, N. H. 



Mr. Peters' visit to New Hampshire is for 

 the purpose of inspecting the forests which 

 have been worked under plans furnished by 

 the government, and in the case of Corbin 

 Park, Mr. Peters found that the recommenda- 

 tions in the matter of cutting and reforesting 

 had worked out admirably. 



There are from 18,000 to 20,000 acres of 

 forest lands in the park enclosure, and while 

 3,000,000 feet of lumber were taken out last 

 year, it was done so scientifically that little 

 evidence of it is presented. 



The work of reforestation has gone along 

 with the cutting. In places the cut-over 

 spaces have been replanted with new trees, 

 while in others the trees have done their own 

 seeding and the young growth is coming 

 along well. 



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Pennsylvania Railroad Nursery 



There is a sharp lesson, and encourage- 

 ment, in the record for rapid forestry reached 

 at the nursery of the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 at Trenton, where 27,000 saplings one year 

 old have been taken out of a space four by 

 twenty-four feet. If the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road can do this, others can — and should, for 

 profit.— Boston (Mass.) Advertiser. 



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Large New Canadian Reserve 



The entire slope of the Rocky Mountains, 

 from the international boundary line north- 

 ward to within a short distance of the Fifty- 

 fourth parallel of north latitude, is now re- 

 served from settlement or occupation and 

 will be administered entirely with a view 

 to the proper utilization and reproduction 

 of the forest, the protection of the water 

 supply of the prairie provinces and other 

 related objects. Such is the eflfect of an 

 order-in-council just passed. 



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