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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



growth is recommended as a means of saving 

 many trees from this disease. 



The Forest Annual, Vol. 6, of the University 

 of Nebraska has recently been issued and 

 dedicated to Dr. Charles Edwin Bessej', the 

 originator and promoter of the Forestry 

 Department of the University. The new issue 

 maintains the degree of excellence established 

 by previous ones, and has a number of par- 

 ticularly good articles on Forestry, the con- 

 tributors being Arthur W. Sampson, Arthur T. 

 Upson, George N. Lamb, Clarence F. Korstian, 

 L. H. Douglas, J. S. Boyce, Prof. E. F. 

 Schramm, C. R. Tillotson, Prof. Wm. W. 

 Morris, Albert H. Miller and E. W. Nelson. 

 It is well illustrated and is altogether a valuable 

 and desirable publication. 



"Professor Nelson C. Brown of the New York 

 State College of Forestry at Syracuse, N. Y., 

 has started on a three months' trip through the 

 West to gather data on lumbering methods 

 and utilization. In addition to a considerable 

 number of the large western operations, 

 Professor Brown's itinerary includes the 

 various district offices of the Forest Service." 



"Students from the Ranger School and from 

 the Summer Camp of the New York State 

 College of Forestry rendered valuable service 

 in fighting the recent fires in the Adirondacks. 

 Nineteen men from the Ranger School and 

 forty men from the Summer Camp were 

 rushed to the front at Star Lake. District 

 Warden O'Brien, Warden Yerder, and Ranger 

 Ferris gave the students high praise, while the 

 cottagers about the lake ascribed the saving 

 of their homes to the work of the young 

 foresters." 



A. W. Thompson, who operates a sawmill in 

 Saulsbury's Woods, on the Cherry Hill Farm, 

 Maryland, says it is not necessary to go to 

 California to see big trees. He recently cut 

 an oak tree that sawed 1,964 feet of lumber. 



He also cut a gum tree that measured 44 

 inches across the stump, making four logs 



18 feet long, one log 14 feet, one log 7 feet, the 

 smallest log being 14 inches across the small 

 end. 



He cut an oak that contained a swarm of 

 bees, an old squirrel in her nest and a snake 

 4 feet long. The bees, squirrel and snake were 

 not 6 feet apart in the hollow. 



The total forest area of the South is estimated 

 at 259,000,000 acres. That of Germany is 

 about 35,000,000. In 1913 the whole United 

 States cut 38,000,000,000 feet of lumber, of 

 which the South cut more than 22,000,000,000, 

 including fifteen billion feet of yellow pine. 

 One Louisiana sawmill cuts 1,000,000 feet of 

 this wood a day. Eight years ago the site 

 selected for this mill was in a stretch of virgin 

 forest. Today it stands upon the outskirts 

 of the thriving and unusually attractive little 

 city of Bogalusa with more than 10,000 

 inhabitants and stores, residences and public 

 buildings which would be the pride of many 

 an older community of much greater size. 



A prize of $25 has been offered by the 

 Manufacturers Association of Seattle to the 

 discoverer of the tallest tree in the world. 

 When found it will be bought and converted 

 into a flagpole in a prominent location in 

 Seattle as a monument to Washington's 

 lumber industry. 



Arrangements have been made by the 

 Lighthouse Service with the Forest Service 

 for the reforestation of certain light-house 

 reservations in the eleventh lighthouse district, 

 where conditions are favorable for this purpose. 

 In the spring of 1916 about 20 acres will be 

 planted under the direction of a Forest Service 

 officer, and beginning with 1917 the planting 

 will be carried on at the rate of 100 acres a 

 year, the annual cost being estimated at $1,500. 



The object of this plan is to perpetuate the 

 supply of timber on lighthouse reservations 

 for use in making spar buoys and for other 

 purposes. 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



By Ell WOOD Wilson 



The Montreal Gazette under date of eighth 

 of June prints the following despatch which 

 shows the necessity of the railways under the 

 control of the Dominion Government handling 

 their fire protection under the same regulations 

 which have been so successful on privately 

 owned railways. 



"Cochrane, Ont., June 8. Heavy losses 

 have been sustained along the line of the 

 National Transcontinental Railway during 

 the past week by forest fires. The fires raged 

 for a distance of fully 70 miles along the 

 railway between here and Kapuskasing. At 

 the latter place, where several hundred prisoners 

 of war are detained, fire for a time seriously 

 threatened the camp. The prisoners were 



orderly and no trouble ensued, they themselves 

 joining in the fire fighting. The Provincial 

 Government farm buildings at Ground Hog 

 River were destroyed. At Jacksonboro, the 

 headquarters of the Ontario Colonization 

 Company, many cottages were burned, but 

 the new large mill escaped." This section 

 is in one of the heaviest timbered sections 

 traversed by the National Transcontinental 

 and such a fire is without excuse and due 

 to the lack of the most elementary precautions. 



In direct contrast to the above might be 

 mentioned an incident which occurred re- 

 cently on the Canadian Pacific Railway in 

 Quebec. A spark from an engine set fire to 



