ARBORICULTURE 



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PUBLIC LIBRARIES 



Should have Practical Arbori- 

 culture on their READiNci Table. 

 This is a vital subject and one 

 which is now attracting greatly 

 increased interest. 



$2.80 post paid, Special price to Libraries 



Plant Trees 



ENDOWED FORESTRY 



Some philanthropic millionaire ought to make a 

 bequest or donation for the teaching of forestry 

 by a regularly established periodical. A column 

 every week upon arboriculture and forestry might_ 

 however, be provided for from a fund yielding 

 $2,500 a year. 



WHY? 



Why not establish by will or gift while living a 

 large fund, from the interest of which a propa- 

 ganda for planting trees may be supported? Who 

 will now make a bequest or a donation for the 

 continued and intelligent teaching of the utility of 

 orchards and groves, without which all animal 

 life must perish from the earth? — J. Sterling 

 Morton. 



Rockford, (111.) Gazette 



Wednesday, July ii, 1906 



FIRE PATROL 



The state of New Jersey has sef the rest of the 

 country a good example in establishing a perma- 

 nent patrol to protect its forests from the ravages 

 of fire. It is not a region of immense forests, like 

 some of the western states in their original condi- 

 tion, but it has had losses of millions from forest 

 fires. It is proposed to do everything possible to 

 check this public loss, by employing a force to 

 have supervision of the forests and see that pre- 

 cautions about fires in camps and other conditions 

 are duly observed. It is considered probable 

 that the example will be followed in other parts 

 of the country. Many states which suffer suc- 

 cessive losses of millions from this source have 

 the same reason to avert the waste that has led 

 New Jersey to set this notable example. 



Preservatives for W^ood 



The Technical Bureau of the Austrian army 

 has made tests of various preservatives for build- 

 ing materials. It is stated that not the depth of 

 penetration, but the concentration of the preserva- 

 tive is essential. Painting with sufficiently strong 

 and concentrated antiseptics protects against rot 

 even when fungi are already established in the 

 interior; the stronger the antiseptic the more 

 superficial may be its application; the weaker the 

 antiseptic the deeper it must penetrate to secure 

 results. 



Fluoric acid (50 per cent, concentration) and 

 fluorine con:pounds are specially recommended, 

 besides the phenols, which for building materials 

 can be used by painting and dipping; the former 

 being not only more effective but cheaper. A 

 mixture of ferric fluor or zinc fluor with fluoric 

 acid is Recommended. Antinonnin, antigermin 

 and antipolypin were found satisfactory materials- 



Fire Losses in Puget Sound 

 Country 



in 1902 eighteen lives and $12,000,000 were lost 

 in fires in Oregon and Washington, and the next 

 year the East had a visitation, from Maine to 

 Virginia, which had its worst example in the 

 Adirondack regions of New York, where there 

 was a loss of no less than $4,000,000 over a burned 

 area aggregating 1,000 square miles. — H. M. 

 Suter, in The Chautauijuan for June. 



Tree Planting by Canadian Railway 



The Canadian Pacific Railway Co. has begun 

 tree planting on quite an extensive scale along its 

 western lines. A contract has been let for a small 

 acreage of breaking near Wolseley on which it is 

 the intention to experiment with tamarack for 

 ties. A piece of ground is also to be planted at 

 Medicine Hat with jack pice and tamarack for 

 the same purpose. Over 100 miles of trees are 

 to be planted between Winnipeg and Calgary, for 

 snow breaks, and at several stations trees are to 

 be planted around the station grounds, and prizes 

 are to be offered the section foremen who make 

 the best showing. This work, if carried on suc- 

 cessfully, ought to encourage tree planting among 

 the farmers of the West. — Caiiadiati Forestry 

 Jotir?ial. 



