FOREST NOTES 



Over 60 acres of land on the College 

 Campus at the Pennsylvania State 

 College have been set aside permanently 

 by the Trustees of the College for the 

 gradual development of a forest arbor- 

 etiim. The tract reserved for this 

 purpose is within two minutes walk of 

 the Forestry Building and lies next to 

 the woodlot of 18 acres which now serves 

 as the "woods laboratory" of the forest 

 school. It is planned to gather together 

 in this arboretum the shrubs and trees 

 that are indigenous to the State of 

 Pennsylvania. No such collection now 

 exists and from a botanical standpoint 

 such a collection will be of great value to 

 botanists everywhere. In addition all 

 trees that can be grown in the climate 

 of Pennsylvania, both native and for- 

 eign, will be planted. Such trees as 

 may be of value for making forest 

 plantations will be grown in clumps of 

 a quarter acre each, so that they will 

 grow under forest conditions and de- 

 velop the form of bole and crown char- 

 acteristic of forest-grown trees. Each 

 of the trees as well as all others will 

 also be grown as individuals so as to 

 develop the natural beauty and form 

 of these trees when grown in the open, 

 which makes them of value for decorat- 

 ive purposes. Many experiments will 

 be carried on in connection with the 

 arboretum and data taken as to the 

 growth and development of the trees, 

 their value for forest and decorative 

 purposes and their suitability to the 

 climate of Pennsylvania. Planned as 

 the arboretum is on such a wide scale, 

 with the possibility of the tract being 

 greatly extended, should the demand 

 ever come, it is believed that the forest 

 arboretum at State College will in 

 time take its place among the famous 

 trej gardens of the country. 



Mr. M. B. Pratt has been appointed 

 assistant professor in the new Division. 

 At the time of his appointment to the 

 faculty of the University, Mr. Pratt 

 was Deputy Supervisor of the Tahoe 

 National Forest in California. Mr. 

 Pratt is already in Berkeley, and is 

 giving during the present college term 

 a non-professional lecture course on 

 general forestrv. 



After a careful canvass of 87 of a list 

 of 194 lumber m.ills in Washington, 

 which Representative Humphreys, of 

 that State, had charged were closed 

 down on account of the new tariff. Sec- 

 retary of Commerce Redfield has de- 

 clared that lumber conditions were the 

 same as usual at this season of the year, 

 and that not a single manufacturer or 

 operator could be found who would 

 cdmit that the tariff has anything to 

 do with the present situation. 



Secretary Redfield, in a letter to Mr. 

 Humphreys, quoted from a report made 

 to him by T. M. Robertson and William 

 H. England, special agents of the 

 Department of Commerce, following 

 a visit to the State of Washington. 



A Division of Forestry has been 

 established in the College of Agriculture 

 at the University of California. Profes- 

 sor Walter Mulford, at present head of 

 the Department of Forestry at Cornell 

 University, has been appointed to take 

 charge of the work at Berkeley. 



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Some of the acacias, a group of trees 

 with a world-circling range, are so 

 valuable as a source of tannin and tim- f 

 ber, says the Department of Agriculture 

 in a bulletin recently issued, that their 

 commercial cultivation in certain por- 

 tions of the United States may prove 

 extnmely profitable. Aside from their 

 value for tannin and lumber, the de- 

 partment goes on to say, they are well 

 adapted to the reclamation of sandy 

 and semi-desert lands, some species 

 being able to thrive with only three 

 inches of rainfall. 



All told, there are about 450 species 

 of acacias, 300 of which are Australian 

 species and the rest scattered over the 

 world, principally in Asia, Africa, and 

 America. Australian acacias were in- 

 troduced into California at about the 

 same time the eucalypts were, and like 



