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establishment of a separate forestry 

 board — such a measure shoiild pass. 

 Texas is planning to create an entirely 

 independent forestry commission. In 

 Pennsylvania the work of the Forestry 

 Commission has been separate from all 

 other forms of State activity from its 

 origin, and the great progress of the 



State through the purchase and manage- 

 ment of forest lands, and the establish- 

 ment of a State Service, is due almost 

 wholly to this fact. Specialization, not 

 consolidation, must be the watchword 

 of American forestry, if we are to 

 accomplish any practical results within 

 the next decade. 



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Mr. C. S. Judd, who for several years has 

 been connected with the United States Forest 

 Service as Assistant District Forester in the 

 office of Silviculture at Portland, Oregon, has 

 recently resigned to accept the position of 

 Forester for Hawaii and Executive Officer of 

 the Board of Agriculture and Forestry there. 

 Mr. Judd assumed his new duties on January 

 15th. 



R. Brooke Maxwell, city forester of Balti- 

 more, writes that the Division of Forestry of 

 Baltimore has been fortunate enough to secure 

 a slight increase in its working funds for this 

 season. The increase was $5,000, making the 

 total appropriation for tree work $12,900. 

 The value of the work which the department 

 has been trying to do seems to be appreciated, 

 and this present increase is only the beginning 

 of larger and better things. 



The Board of Governors of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association has ac- 

 cepted the resignation of Mr. J. E. Rhodes as 

 secretary and he has become secretary of the 

 Southern Pine Association. Mr. R. S. Kellogg, 

 secretary of the Northern Hemlock & Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, has been 

 elected secretary to succeed Mr. Rhodes. 



Mr. H. H. Tryon, a graduate of Harvard 

 College and the Harvard Forest School, has 

 been appointed an instructor in Forest Utiliza- 

 tion at the New York State College of Forestry 

 at Syracuse. This appointment has been 

 made to handle the greatly increased work in 

 the Department of Forest Utilization. 



Prof. Nelson C. Brown represented the New 

 York State College of Forestry at Syracuse 

 at the annual meeting of the American Wood 

 Preservers Association in Chicago, Januarv 

 19, 20 and 21. Dean Hugh P. Baker and Prof. 

 Brown are both members of the Association. 



Dr. C. A. Schenck, former director of the 

 Biltmore Forest School, is alive and well, 

 and the news will be welcomed by his many 

 friends in this country who have recently 

 heard the unconfirmed rumor that he was 

 killed in action while leading an attack on the 

 Russians in Poland. Dr. Schenck, who is an 



officer in a German Regiment, has been in the 

 campaign in Poland since early in the fall. 

 On Dec. 18th, Mrs. Schenck, according to 

 advices received here, heard that he was in 

 good health and unwounded. A few days later 

 he was seriously wounded. But on Jan. 8th, 

 he had so far recovered that he was preparing 

 to return to the front. 



In writing to J. Gordon Dorrance, a forest 

 engineer in the Maryland State Forestry 

 Department, Dr. Schenck said: "Thank God, 

 by some miracle I am up and well again, ready 

 to go back to my regiment. Of course, no 

 one of the Biltmore students expected me to 

 stay behind when my country was in danger, 

 and I am sure that all Biltmoreans will do 

 the same when the good old U. S. A. is at war." 



Coert Du Bois. district forester with head- 

 quarters in San Francisco, spent several days 

 in Washington in January in relation to affairs 

 in his district. 



Gilford Pinchot is now in England where 

 with Mrs. Pinchot he is aiding his sister, the 

 wife of Sir Alan Johnstone, British minister to 

 the Netherlands, in relief work. He expects to 

 remain abroad for some months. 



W. B. Greeley, assistant forester with head- 

 quarters in Washington, D. C, has been 

 elected a director of the American Forestry 

 Association for a term of two years. 



News print paper has been made by the 

 Forest Service laboratory from 24 different 

 woods, and a number compare favorably with 

 standard spruce pulp paper. 



The Forest Service is cooperating with 54 

 railroads, mining companies, pole companies, 

 and cities in making tests of wooden ties, 

 timbers, poles, piling, and paving blocks which 

 have been given preservative treatments. 



Recent sales by the government totaling 

 126,000,000 feet of saw timber in the Olympic 

 National Forest, in western Washington, mark 

 the opening of this hitherto inaccessible 

 storehouse of timber, estimated to contain a 

 stand of 33 billion board feet. 



