Pennsylvania Department of Fores- 

 try, Biennial Report. Lack of space 

 prevented the notice which should 

 have been given earlier of the Re- 

 port of the Pennsylvania Department 

 of Forestry for 1905-1906, which ap- 

 peared a few weeks ago. The Commis- 

 sioner of Forestry, Robert S. Conklin, 

 is also president of the State Forest 

 Reservation Commission. 



The report is a comprehensive sum- 

 mary of the work in preserving and 

 developing the forests of the State 

 and the care of the vast areas of 

 woodlands now under its charge. 



The Forestry Commission now holds 

 701,297 acres of forest land in twenty- 

 three counties of the State. At the 

 time of the filing of the report, there 

 was under contract to be purchased an 

 additional area of 100,000 acres. The 

 price paid is about $2.50 per acre. 



As these lands are purchased from 

 all who care to sell at the price offer- 

 ed, they are located in many parts of 

 the State. 



The various details of the manage- 

 ment of the forest areas are interesting 

 and instructive to private owners of 

 forest lands. ■ The result of the Com- 

 mission's experiments in reforesting is 

 clearly set forth and must be of great 

 value to the owners of timber lands. 



The Old Mountain Pines. The beau- 

 tiful poem under this title in our No- 

 vember issue, by Andrew Sherwood, 

 of Portland, Oregon, was intended by 

 the author to appear with a dedica- 

 tion to one of his friends who doubtless 

 shares his feeling toward the pine 

 trees. Both Mr. Sherwood and Mr. 

 Elliott are members of the American 

 Forestry .Association. The poem is 

 dedicated as follows: 



"To my_ friend, Hon. S. B. Elliott, 

 Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania; member 

 of the Pennsylvania State Forest 

 Reservation Commission, and author 

 of "The Timber Trees of Our Coun- 

 try." 



American Industries for November 

 J5th has an illustrated article describ- 

 ing the Cape Cod canal, now under con- 

 struction by public-spirited citizens, and 

 to form part of the seacoast canal line 

 between Massachusetts and North Caro- 

 lina. 



A Successful Southern Hay Farm. 



The monthly publication list of the 

 Department of Agriculture for No- 

 vember (issued December first) con- 

 tains A Successful Hay Farm, by Har- 

 mon Benton, of the Office of Farm 

 Management. This is a part of the re- 

 clamation work by that office, men- 

 tioned in the News and Notes of this 

 issue of Forestry and Irrigation. The 

 bulletin gives the details of the man- 

 agement, cultural methods, equipment, 

 cost, etc., of a twenty-five acre hay 

 farm in Cherokee County, South Car- 

 olina, with some general suggestions 

 for hay growers in the South. 



In the Railway Critic recently appear- 

 ed an article by one of the directors of 

 the American Forestry Association, viz.: 

 W. W. Finley, president of the South- 

 ern Railway, on The Correction of Rail- 

 way Abuses. 



In the Federation Bulletin for Decem- 

 ber, the official organ of the General Fed- 

 eration of the Women's Clubs, we find a 

 communication by Mrs. Peterson, chair- 

 man of the Forestry Committee. She 

 urges effort to the end that every State in 

 the Union be brought into the movement 

 to save the trees, by means of the en- 

 lightenment of public sentiment. Sug- 

 gestions are given for forestry work by 

 the clubs. 



In the same issue the report of the Col- 

 orado State Federation mentions the 

 many activities of the Forestry Commit- 

 tee in that State, and the wonderful 

 growth of interest among the clubs. 



An editorial in the Outlook says the 

 success of the National Forests, both 

 financially and in beneficial results, is a 

 satisfaction to economists and right- 

 minded citizens. 



The Engineer, published at Chicago, 

 tells of a proposed enterprise in Maine 

 for obtaining power from the tides. A 

 profile is shown of the plant to be erect- 

 ed at South Thomaston. The power is 

 to come from air compression, and the 

 compressor part does not involve ma- 

 chinery, hence is expected to be cheap. 



