FOREST NOTES 



Bristow Adams, who for some years 

 has done excellent work in the Depart- 

 ment of Information of the Forest Ser- 

 vice, has resigned to take charge of 

 a new department at Cornell Univer- 

 sity. He leaves the Forest Service on 

 December 10, much to the regret of 

 his associates there and of the many 

 others who have so greatly appreciated 

 his ser\dees whenever infomiation was 

 sought from his department. His work 

 for the Ser\dce resulted in it getting 

 \A'idespread and very valuable publicity 

 and aided materially in creating in the 

 public mind a knowledge and an appre- 

 ciation of what the Service is doing. 

 His new work at Cornell will be upon 

 somewhat similar lines. The University 

 wishes to have a well organized bureau 

 for general publicity and for furnishing 

 the information for which its different 

 branches are requested and Mr. Adams 

 was asked by former assistant secretary 

 of Agriculture Galloway, now head of 

 the Agricultural Department at Cornell, 

 to undertake the organization of such a 

 bureau and to assimie charge of it. 

 While his many friends in the Service 

 will regret losing him he takes with him 

 their very best wishes for even greater 

 success than he has already achieved. 



What Chief Forester Henry S. Graves 

 thinks of Mr. Adams' ser\dce is evident 

 by his letter to Mr. Adams. He says : — 



"It is a very great regret to me to 

 learn that you are going to leave the 

 Forest Service. I appreciate your posi- 

 tion and under the circumstances could 

 not expect 3'ou to do otherwise than you 

 are doing. My regret is based entirely 

 on the loss to us of your services. You 



have created a place for yourself in our 

 organization which will be very difficult 

 to fill. Your contribution to the work 

 has been a large one and it has been a 

 contribution which I very deeply appre- 

 ciate. Especially do I appreciate the 

 loyal service that you have rendered to 

 us and the way in which you have 

 devoted your strength to the work, 

 always with the single thought of the 

 advancement of the interests of the 

 Service. In leaving us you may be 

 sure that you carry with you both our 

 grateful appreciation of your past work 

 and very best wishes for success in your 

 new enterprise." 



The Bureau of Insular Affairs of the 

 War Department has received a cable- 

 gram from Manila, Philippine Islands, 

 ad\dsing that the date for the opening 

 of bids at the Bureau of Forestry in 

 Manila for a concession covering the 

 large forest known as the Tayabas- 

 Camarines tract has been changed from 

 November 14, 1914, to January 14, 

 1915. 



A reforestation project is now under 

 way in Muskegon County, Michigan, 

 where 10,000 Norway and white pine 

 will be planted on each of three tracts 

 of land owned by John W. Wilson, 

 Frank C. Whitney and F. S. Jacks, who 

 in conjunction with Prof. C. A. Tyler, 

 of the Michigan Agricultural College, 

 have decided that it will pay them to 

 reforest their imoccupied lands. 



State Surv^eyor Samuel Higgins, of 

 Roscommon, Michigan, has made pre- 



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