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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A report from Bangor, Me., says 

 ten steel lookout towers for Maine 

 forests have arrived and will be at 

 once installed on the following moun- 

 tains : INlattagamon, Trout Brook and 

 Beetle on the East Branch of the Penob- 

 scot ; Mattamiscontis, on Penobscot 

 waters ; Three Brooks in the Squa 

 Arostook ; Kennebago, near Range- 

 ley ; Mulhedus on the southwest branch 

 of the Penobscot above Aloosehead; 

 Ragged and Sourdnahunk, in from Nor- 

 cross. This makes a total of thirty steel 

 and three wooden towers that have been 

 put up this year in addition to ten port- 

 able houses located where towers were 

 unnecessary. 



A movement is on foot at Shreve- 

 port, La., to make it possible for the 

 school children of that city to secure 

 an education in tree knowledge. It is 

 the intention of those behind the move- 

 ment to have on hand at all times sam- 

 ples of all trees in the bark and after 

 being manufactured so that the school 

 children may acquire a knowledge that 

 may be of use to them in later years. 

 Another movement on foot in that city 

 is to have all of the trees adorning the 

 highways of the city labeled so that 

 not only the children but grown people 

 will be able to ascertain the difference 

 between the various kinds of southern 

 trees. 



Prof. Alfred Akerman, of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture at Athens, Ga.. 

 writes: "I am leaving the College of 

 Agriculture here at Athens this fall, for 

 a timber tract in Greene County. jMy 

 work will be reorganized along some- 

 what different lines, greater emphasies 

 being placed on the outdoor part of the 

 curriculum. Over 000 acres have been 

 secured in Greene County and another 

 place of 300 acres in Towns County 

 on the other side of the Blue Ridge. 

 For the present the place in Towns will 

 be used only for summer camps. A 

 sawmill is to be put on the Greene 

 County tract and the forest is to be 

 worked on a business basis, but also 

 with a view to its use by the students 

 for experimentation. A site for a winter 

 camp has been secured in Florida. It 



is proposed to mount the students, be- 

 ginning next year, and to make the 

 trips to the mountains and to Florida 

 on horseback. The course is to be of 

 three years duration. One of the 

 terms is to be spent in Towns and one 

 in Florida. This will give the men a 

 chance to study all of the important 

 timber trees of the eastern part of the 

 United States, except the spruce. At 

 present there are no buildings on the 

 headquarters place in Greene County, 

 and tents will be used until some bunga- 

 lows can be built. 



I have dreamed for five years of a 

 forest school in the woods, and now 

 my dream is taking shape. 



Owing to the war the president and 

 directors of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association have, after the most careful 

 consideration, decided to cancel the ar- 

 rangements for the forestry convention 

 which was to be held in Halifax, Sep- 

 tember 1 to 4, 191-i, and to postpone 

 the convention indefinitely. Whatever 

 it is decided to do in the future, due 

 notice will be given thereof to the 

 members and all others concerned. 



The New York Conservation Com- 

 mission is making exhibits at thirty 

 fairs in New York State. These ex- 

 hibits consist of sample forest planta- 

 tions and planting material. A repre- 

 sentative is present at each one of these 

 places to give information in regard to 

 reforesting, taxation, handling wood- 

 lots, etc. Literature along these lines is 

 also distributed. 



A tabulation of the forest fires in 

 New York State, completed August 10, 

 shows 208 fires, 9,650 acres burned, 

 causing $6,,304 damage, and costing 

 $(;,4(i3.24 to extinguish. It is interest- 

 ing to note that as usual practically all 

 these fires were due to carelessness. 

 Smokers caused seventy-seven ; fisher- 

 men, thirty-eight ; railroads, forty-one ; 

 campers, eleven. The commission is 

 endeavoring to reduce the danger of 

 fire from this cause by increasing- its 

 educational work and by prosecuting 

 people who cause fires negligently. Con- 

 siderable anxiety was felt recently on 



