NEWS AND NOTES 



Miscellaneous Mr. E. A. Sterling, chief Looting The d i s c o v e r e r s of 

 News forester of the Pennsyl- JXeritance ^"^^"^^ found them- 

 vania Railroad, is on a. selves chin deep in a 

 six months' tour examining treating reservoir of rich natural resources, 

 plants for tie and timber preservation. Your grandfather was in it up to his 

 The Pennsylvania Railroad now has shoulders. Your father waded around 

 three trained foresters in its employ, waist deep in God's reserve of material 

 The other two are Messrs. Bond and mercy. You are standing in itknee deep. 

 Sheppard. Your boy will find some of the rich 

 The Iowa Park and Forestry Asso- original mud on his shoe soles, and 

 elation held its seventh annual meet- your grandson will be raking over the 

 ing in the horticultural rooms of the dump for some of the old, abandoned 

 State House at Des Moines, on De- scraps of the gone-by Golden Age. It 

 cember loth and nth. will be but about five hundred years 

 Salt Lake City, like Helena and Los from the discovery of America to the 

 Angeles, is going into forest culture, final looting of her fat inheritance. — 

 The city council has memorialized the Exchange. 

 Government to have more trees plant- 

 ed on the city lands, and to put the State The complaint of the 

 supervision of the lands in Parley's Ccmmissicn ^^^^ York State Forest. 

 Canyon under the supervision of the Sues Railroad ^.^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ Commis- 

 Forest Service. sion, which is suing the Long Island 



Railroad for $200,000 for damage done 

 Keep The Leader has talked by forest fires caused through lack of 

 Pounding Qf forestry before. It proper preventive measures on the 

 ^"^^y will talk of it again. The part of the road, was sustained by 

 subject is one that cannot be discussed Judge Jaycox, of the Supreme Court, 

 too often. Besides, the attitude of the sitting in Brooklyn, 

 general public is such an indifferent The action was brought by the Corn- 

 one that those who seek to make a mission upon the petition of many res- 

 dent in its opinion must keep on idents who declare that their property 

 pounding away. — Cleveland Leader. was being destroyed, and that the law 

 Good for the Leader. The same gave the Commission the right to 

 method will make the needed dents in bring suit for the protection of the 

 State and .Federal statute books. property under its care. 



The railroad company filed a demur- 

 Intensive There is no land on earth rer on the ground that the Commis- 

 Farmingin where intensive farming sion had no jurisdiction outside of 

 California j^ ^^^^ profitable than in State preserves and parks, but Judge 

 California. The area that one man can Jaycox decided that there was a just 

 care for and supervise to its fullest cause of action, 

 advantage must, of necessity, be small. ^^ , ^ 

 Hence it is that intensive farming re- Endowing a The Yale Corporation 

 quires a small farm. With intensive ^/jf^^'J^P has just received $50,000 

 farming, irrigation and diversity of °' '^""'''^ ^ in lumber company 

 crops ^o hand in hand, and the small bonds, which are for the endowment of 

 farmer" of California so regulates his a Chair of Applied Forestry and Prac- 

 crops and output that there is not a tical Lumbering. This endowment is 

 month' in the year without its special made by the National Lumber Manu- 

 in-ome The small farm, intensively facturers' Association; and the secur- 

 cultivated with diversified crops, is a ities were conveyed by F E. Weyer- 

 boon to the farmer.— ParZ/Fc Monthh. haeuser, chairman, and William Car- 



