76 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



When he gets this place improved and The Department of Forest Botany 



restocked, he proposes to buy another at The New York State College of 



and keep at it. Forestry is engaged in the classifying 



of the collections of forest fungi which 



Of two million sheep annually grazed were secured at the Summer Camp of 



in the State of Utah, more than a 1914 in the Catskills. Diseased plants 



million are on the National Forests, or, fungi and specimens of wood which 



including lambs which are fattening for show fungous decay are being prepared 



market on the forest ranges, over a for museum purposes and for studies in 



million and three-quarters. connection with the decay of timber. 



Dr. Harry P. Brown, Assistant Profes- .J^^e forest fire season m the 28 square 



sor of Forest Botany in The New York ^/es mcluded withm the boundaries 



State College of Forestry, has pubHshed of the city of Fitchburg Mass., ended 



a paper in the January number of November 14. For the twelve months 



Mycologia treating of a pecuhar timber Precedmg this date the precipitation 



rot of oak and chestnut. The decay ^^s 13 inches less than the normal. _ A 



is caused by Hymenochaete rubiginosa continuous drought occurred beginmng 



(Sch.) Lev. The rot first manifests ^^^^.'^ August and lasting 47 days 



itself through the formation of white Dunng the entire season there occurred 



areas in the wood, separated by sound ^9 fires m the timber, sprout and brush 



tissue. Later, pockets are formed which l^nd^ of the outlymg districts The 



have a white lining. The decay is ^otal area bume^ amounted to 127 



quite similar to that of oak caused by ^f ^^"^ ^he cost of extinction was $649.- 



Stereum frustulosum (pers.) Fr. ^^- ^ J^^n ^''^^''.? f '"'' '^'''^^^^ amounted 

 to $44.00. All fires were extinguished 



The Boise national forest in Idaho ^y expert forest protective methods, 



had 30 fires during the past summer, yet "^^^t of them before they exceeded the 



28 were held down to less than 10 light surf ace stage Fires that developed 



acres, and of these 15 were less than i?to deep ground burns or into top 



one-quarter of an acre. The supervisor ^^^^ were kept absolutely restricted to 



says this success was due to a lookout very small areas until entirely extm- 



tower, and to efficient telephone and guished. 



heliograph service. The annual meeting of the Massa- 



chusetts Forestry Association held in 



Because of the war, English manu- Boston on December 10 was very well 



facturers and consumers of wood pulp attended. The Association honored 

 have been caused considerable uneasi- Mr. Allen Chamberlain by making him 

 ness. Production is at a standstill in a patron, the fee of $1,000 being con- 

 'the countries at war, and in Norway tributed in small amomits by about 

 and Sweden, principal sources of supply, two hundred members in recognition 

 mills have been greatly hampered be- of Mr. Chamberlain's admirable work 

 cause of a lack of coal and of chemicals, for forest conservation. Interesting 

 England has practically no domestic addresses were delivered by Mr. Cham- 

 sources of pulp. berlain on the present status of the new 



national forest in New Hampshire; by 



Black HiUs white spruce has entered Arthur A. Shurtleff on the Esthetic and 



the market as a commercial possibility. Recreational Possibilities of Town For- 



After a series of experiments the spruce ests; by Secretary Harris A. Reynolds on 



has proven itself of value for mining Economics of Town Forests and by Wm. 



timbers in the coal mines of Cambria, W. Colton on the management and 



Wyoming, and as a result several min- Development of the Town Forest. The 



ing timber contractors have entered officers elected are: President, Nathaniel 



into contracts with the Forest Service T. Kidder of Milton; vice-presidents, 



for the purchase of white spruce from Berkshire — Heloise Meyer, Lenox; Bris- 



the Black Hills National Forest. tol— William E. Fuller, Jr., Fall River; 



