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method has been found very effective and 

 has been endorsed by many authorities of 

 agriculture and horticulture. The habits of 

 many insects have been studied and means 

 have been found for trapping them as easily 

 as catching rats and mice and they can be 

 much more easily killed by means of this 

 new torch. 



This is especially true of the chinch bug 

 vvrhich can be snared in passing from the 

 wheat to the green corn when the wheat 

 is being cut. This torch can also be used 

 very effectively for destroying the eggs, 

 larvae, etc., beneath the surface of the 

 ground. 



White Mountain Reserves 



There has been sent to the Forest Reser- 

 vation Commission at Washington by the 

 Boston Chamber of Commerce a memorial 

 adopted by the latter, requesting that the 

 Nation may acquire by eminent domain with- 

 in the fiscal year ending June 30, certain 

 lands in the White Mountains. 



At present the Forest Service has options 

 on about 75,000 acres of land in this mountain 

 tract. This stretch may be increased to 

 90,000, and the whole purchased for a 

 National forest in the White Mountains, 



providing the geological survey reports 

 favorably within the given time. 



That the purchase may be made seems 

 probable in view of the recent favorable 

 report of the Forest Service on some lands 

 in the Southern Appalachians and the state- 

 ment issued by them that they "hope to make 

 a favorable report" on this district also. 



Reforesting Pike's Peak 



The Government has started work re- 

 foresting the north slope of Pike's Peak. The 

 improvements proposed will cost about $100,- 

 000, although the work planned for this 

 wear will take only about one-tenth of that 

 appropriation. It will require about 10 years 

 to complete the work. 



The work outlined for this spring will 

 cover a period of about two months. About 

 100,000 trees, including the Douglas fir, En- 

 glemann's spruce and the yellow pine, are 

 to be replanted. Seeds from the same trees 

 will be planted over about 1,000 acres. 



The area which will be planted to seed 

 and young trees is at the headwaters of 

 Cascade creek, about three and one-half 

 miles from Cascade. The Government has 

 closed the work of planting seed on snow 

 in an adjoining area of about 500 acres. 



STATE NEWS 



Washington 



Twenty lumbermen, representing corpora- 

 tions and individuals owning timber worth 

 many millions, and a half dozen state and 

 government foresters, from California, Ore- 

 gon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, met 

 recently in Spokane for the annual business 

 session of the Western Forestry and Con- 

 servation Association. Plans were outlined 

 for the protection of the western forests 

 against fire next summer. E. T. Allen, 

 forester of the association explained to the 

 members that under the Weeks' law creating 

 the Appalachian forest reserve, all states 

 protecting forests at the head of navigable 

 streams are entitled to claim up to this 

 amount from the government. Only the 

 application is necessary. 



"Oregon already has availed itself of this 

 privilege," said Forester Allen. "There is 

 no reason why the other four states of the 

 association should not have their share. The 

 Federal government appropriates the money 

 on the condition that the state appropriates 

 an equal amount to be used in protecting 

 the sources of navigable streams. Money 

 for this purpose, in excess of $10,000, is 

 already appropriated by each of the states 

 named. There is, therefore, no reason why 



the government aid should not also be se- 

 cured." 



Wisconsin 



How Arbor day and Bird day and Fire 

 Prevention day may help reduce the high 

 cost of living is the lesson sought to be 

 brought home to school children and others 

 in the Arbor day annual issued by the 

 Wisconsin State Department of Public In- 

 struction. The annual is for the first time 

 joined with the fire prevention cause. 



"If we knew the amount savable annually 

 by a wise forestry policy in reducing the 

 cost of wood as a raw material in manu- 

 facturing industries," says the editor, "in 

 lessening the cost of water oower, and in 

 lowering transportation charges on bulky 

 commodities ; if we knew the amount of 

 annual loss to agriculture by insect pests 

 which will be prevented by protection of 

 bird life, and if we then were able to add 

 to these amounts the $200,000,000 of pre- 

 ventable fire loss, we should have a total 

 annual saving of certainly not less than 

 $1,000,000,000, and possibly several times 

 that amount. 



"If this saving were eauitably distributed 

 there would be a substantial reduction in 

 the cost of living for all." 



