2 EDITORIAL NOTES. ' [Mat 



KussiAN Forestry. — A correspondent of the Irish Farmer's 

 Gazette was much struck by the complete equipments of the 

 Petrovske Kazouuiovske School of Forestry. The laboratory and 

 museums are very extensive, and most careful investigations into the 

 blights of trees are undertaken. 



The forests are rapidly diminishing ; wood - stealing by the 

 Eussian peasant, who looks on this in the light of tenant-right, is a 

 main factor ; and to this may be added the necessities or extrava- 

 gances of landowners, who do not replace by young plants the trees 

 ruthlessly cut down for immediate profit. The cold of Eussia, too, 

 retards timber "rowth. 



Legislation in Pennsylvania. — The Philadelphia WeeJdy Press 

 urges forestry legislation in behalf of its own State. The organized 

 movements in New York and Ohio should spur the friends of sylvi- 

 culture in Pennsylvania to begin agitating the subject. But the 

 mere organization of forestry associations and the enactment of 

 laws will never accomplish the reform needed. The State of New 

 York contains a wide expanse of neglected land, the site of the 

 Adirondacks, and therefore easily available for that planting so 

 urgently needed to provide a steady and unfailing supply of water for 

 the Hudson Eiver and the Erie Canal. But the corresponding area of 

 Pennsylvania is cut out into small holdings ; and one ill-informed 

 farmer may render nugatory any efforts of a dozen wiser neighbours. 

 A thorough education in forestry principles is therefore the main 

 requisite to urge these small holders to profitable action. 



Canadian Timber Limits. — From the Ottawa Free Press it 

 appears that there has been a considerable ado in the Dominion 

 Parliament because of the cession of Government timber limits for 

 apparently inadequate considerations to sons and other connections 

 of several colonial M.P.'s. Amongst these grants is one of 50 

 square miles on Smoky Lake, a tributary of the North Saskatchewan, 

 in the district of Alberta, for 250 dollars, one year's ground rent, 

 which at the time was not surveved. 



Central America. — In view of probable complications betwixt 

 the republics of Mexico and Guatemala, the prices of all sizes of 

 mahogany are expected to rise. 



