NEWS AND NOTES 



Canadian Forestry Association 



Much interest is being taken in the forth- 

 coming annual meeting of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association which will take place 

 in Victoria, B. C, from September 4 to 6. 

 Not for six years has the gathering been 

 held on the Pacific Coast. The Province of 

 British Columbia has just enacted a new 

 timber and forestry law and is adopting a 

 progressive attitude in regard to the con- 

 servation and proper disposal of its inval- 

 uable timber wealth. Much concern is evi- 

 denced on the Coast in regard to the new 

 law and to modern methods of lumbering 

 and clearing the pulp wood off the limits. 

 A conference on farm forestry will be one 

 of the features of the Seventh International 

 Dry Farming Congress, which will be held 

 in Lethbridge, Alta., from October 21 to 26. 

 Dr. A. R. Myers, of Moncton, N. B., set 

 out 40,000 white pine last spring and all are 

 thriving. The owner expects to plant 50,000 

 more this season and 100,000 more white pine 

 early next spring. 



Boy Scouts Aiding 



Nearly 100 scoutmasters representing the 

 Boy Scouts of America in Pennsylvania, 

 have appomted five wardens to serve during 

 the present year. 



These scoutmasters are located in various 

 counties throughout Pennsylvania, and are 

 empowered to exercise to the full powers of 

 fire wardens should forest fires occur at any 

 point within their jurisdiction. 



Members of the Boy Scout troops are 

 co-operating in the work of preventing forest 

 fires, and it is reported much valuable work 

 along this line has already been done by the 

 boys. 



These appointments have been made by 

 Robert S. Conklin, commissioner of for- 

 estry of Pennsylvania, upon the suggestion 

 of the executive officers of the Pennsylvania 

 Chestnut-tree Blight Commission. The com- 

 mission was inspired to make this suggestion 

 by the great value of the services of the 

 Boy Scouts in detecting the presence of 

 chestnut-tree blight, and in reporting the lo- 

 cation of the diseased trees to the com- 

 mission. National and State authorities have 

 heartily commended the scouts for their in- 

 terest in forest conservation. 



firm decided to give up its forestry work 

 on that account. Mr. Sewall has with him 

 the almost intact field force of the company. 



Sewall in Maine 



James W. Sewall, formerly forestry mana- 

 ger of the Appleton & Sewall Co.. of New 

 York City, has opened an office at Old Town, 

 Maine, where he will continue his business 

 of the mapping or surveying of wild lands, 

 or the estimation of timber. Mr. Appleton 

 has been in ill health for some time and the 



Hickory Trees Killed 



Numerous magnificent hickory trees have 

 been killed by the pernicious hickory bark 

 borer in the vicinity of New York City. It 

 has destroyed thousands of trees in the 

 central part of the State, while recent in- 

 vestigations show that it is at work in the 

 Hudson Valley, near Tivoli, and probably is 

 injurious in numerous other places. The 

 severe droughts of the last two or three 

 years have undoubtedly been favorable to the 

 development of the pest, since the vitality 

 of many of the trees has been lowered, and 

 they have been thus rendered more suscep- 

 tible to attack by insect enemies. 



Wireless in Forests 



Wireless telegraph stations for use in 

 transmitting messages to rangers when for- 

 est fires are discovered are to be built on 

 summits in various sections of Vermont. 

 The first station is to be built on Mt. Pico, 

 ten miles east of Rutland, at an altitude of 

 3,900 feet. 



Other stations will be erected on moun- 

 tains to the north. 



Forests in China 



The United States Consular Report says : 

 Forestry is a subject in which the Chinese 

 evince no interest, as there are no forests 

 in that country. The Great Plain, on which 

 Tien-Tsin is located, never had forests, being 

 entirely of delta formation, and the moun- 

 tainous regions to the north and west were 

 denuded of their forests centuries ago. The 

 surface soil of these mountains has been 

 washed away, and to reforest them would be 

 a matter of great difficulty. The only 

 nurseryman in this consular district is F. 

 Bade, of the Tien-Tsin Nursery Gardens, 

 who is much interested in tree culture. He 

 raises various shade and ornamental trees 

 from seed, but the soil of the Great Plain 

 is alkaline and comparatively few varieties 

 of trees will flourish in it. A British cor- 

 poration engaged in mining and shipping has 

 a concession for coal mining in the Kaiping 

 district, about eighty miles northwest of 

 Tien-Tsin. The surface of the region is 

 broken by hills from fifty to two hundred 

 feet high, which are absolutely bare of trees, 

 and the company has begun work of affores- 

 tation. It already has 1,000,000 young trees 

 growing, chiefly acacia, and is preparing to 

 establish a nursery for them on an extensive 

 scale. 



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