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couditions which were responsible lor the larger part o£ the losses they 

 were much heavier than they need have been had the emergency of the 

 situation been realized by the mill people to the same extent it was realized 

 l)y the alliance authorities. 



The bulletin states that through the government weather bureau and 

 reports of inspectors the alliance keeps posted as to weather conditions 

 over the country. It says that last summer when the heat and drought 

 became pronounced every inspection report Issued from the ofDce destined 

 to the districts that were baked contained warnings as to the increased 

 danger due to weather conditions. Numerous special letters and special 

 warning fire bulletins were Issued and the employment of extra patrol, 

 the cleaning up of refuse and debris, the cutting of weeds and the general 

 cleaning up of the premises were urged. According to the opinion of the 

 alliance, if these warnings had been heeded and if the advice issued had 

 received attention the losses should have been less heavy. Accordjng to 

 the bulletin nearly ,$1,000,000 of lumbermen's money went up in smoke 

 in 1913 through the two leading insurance exchanges alone and much of 

 tills loss was preventable. 



The bulletin then goes on to state that the alliance has striven in all 

 earnestness to discover the causes of fire and to suggest effective pre- 

 ventive measures. It urges that eCEective work must be carried on without 

 relaxation. The bulletin contends that it is not infallible regarding its 

 information relative to fires, but that in its inspection rounds covering 428 

 risks it is reasonable that it picks up a great deal of very valuable in- 

 formation that should prove useful to the lumbemen. 



The bulletin then urges closer co-operation between the mill man and 

 the alliance and a recognition that the work is mutual and that the alliance 

 exists for the benefit of the lumbermen, that it is at their service and 

 that its recommendations are not made merely to be arbitrary or in a 

 spirit of antagonism. It raises the question that in periods of unusual 

 peril mill owners are sometimes prone to balk at additional expenses which 

 comprehensive methods of safeguarding involve. It contends, however, 

 that if a business is worth having it is worth saving. 



The bulletin says that last year's heaviest losses occurred within the 

 brief period of thirty-six days, in the month of August and the first part 

 of September, during the latter half of the unbroken drought and heat. 

 The extra expense for watch service during this period as well as for extra 

 men for clean-up and drenching the premises would surely not have been 

 prohibitive. There was not so great a percentage of fires to risks in 1913 

 as in IIUL*. hnt it is sisuiticant that the smaller per cent of fires destroyed 

 a far greater amount of property. 



Probable New Forestry Law for New York State 

 Lumber and pulp interests of New York state are much interested in a 

 new forestry bill introduced in the legislature by Mr. Jones. The bill is 



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similar in many leapects to the law in force in Pennsylvania and other 

 states in that it gives owners of private lands the right to place their 

 holdings under the Jurisdiction of a conservation commission authorised 

 in the bill. Where private lands are thus given over to the care of the 

 lommlssion, lumbering may be conducted under regulations to be pre- 

 scribed by the commission. This is to assure the removal of mature tim- 

 ber only and thus preserve the forest cover on such lands. 



It is realized that New York is out of date In forestry laws, and 

 several attempts to have such a law as now proposed enacted at recent 

 legislations have failed. The Empire State Forest Products' Association 

 and other organizations in the Adirondacks Iiave been trying for a long 

 time to have a more equitable conservation law spread on the books. 



Forest Insect Control 



Special investigations by the experts of Ibe Di'partment of Agriculture- 

 have shown that as much as ninety-live per cent of the timber in some 

 of the can.vons and valleys of the Tuolumne river, California, which is 

 to supply the water for the Hetch Hctchy project, has been killed by 

 bark-boring insects. Some of the damage was done many years ago. 

 As soon as the matter was called to the attention of the Secretary of 

 the Interior in the fall of 1912, he appealed to the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture for such advice and assistance as his department could render 

 through the expert who has charge of the forest insect branch of the 

 Bureau of Entomology. The matter i-eceived the required prompt atten- 

 tion and arrangements were soon made for active warfare against the- 

 depredating beetle. A plan of procedure was outlined and the work 

 was started .lust as soon as the weather conditions permitted in June. 

 I'JIS. 



The method recommended .ind followed was to fell the infested trees,^ 

 lop off the limbs, pile them on the prostrate trunk, and set fire to It : 

 thus the infested bark was scorched or burned to a sulBcient extent to- 

 kill the broods of the insects. The trees thus treated ranged in diam- 

 eter from six inches to fifty-four inches, with the average of about twenty- 

 two and a half inches. 



One thousand. si.\ hundred and seventy-one trees were treated in the 

 two projects, at a cost of $1,158, including all expenses except the 

 salaries of two representatives of the Bureau of Entomology who directed 

 and assisted in the work. It is claimed that this work, with an addi- 

 tional expenditure of about .?500 next season, will be sufficient to bring 

 the beetle under such control that ver.v little attention will be required 

 to protect the remaining living timber from further serious injury. Both 

 this and an infestation in the timber around the rim of the Yosemlte- 

 valley will receive the required attention next season. The Interior 

 Department has expressed a determination to prosecute a warfare against 

 the depredations of insects in the Yosemite and Glacier National parks 

 to the limit of the funds available for the purpose. 



The insect which is directly responsible for the death of such a large 

 percentage of the lodgepole pine timljcr of the northern section of the 

 park is known as the mountain pine beetle, the technical name of which 

 is Dendroctonus monticolae (Hopkins). It attacks perfectly healthy trees 

 and kills them b.y mining between the bark and wood in such a manner 

 us to stop the movement of sap and kill the bark, which results in- 

 the tinal death of a tree within ten to twelve months after it is at- 

 tacked. This beetle is the most destructive enemy of the lodgepole pine, 

 western yellow pine, and mountain or silver pine of the entire Pacific 

 ooast and northern Rocky Mountain region. A vast amount of the best 

 timber of these regions has been killed b.v this beetle during the past 

 fifty years and has gone to waste through the agencies of decay and 

 forest fires, but, thanks to the discoveries of the experts of the Bureau- 

 of Entomology, it can now be controlled and a great waste of forest 

 resources prevented in the future. 



Hardwood ^ews ^otes 



■< MISCELLANEOUS >■ 



The Black King Furniture Company has been incorporated at Branch- 

 ville. N. C, with $10,000 capital stock. 



The Toledo Stave & Heading Company has started business at Wash- 

 ington, N. C, the concern being incorporated with .$50,000 capital. 



The National Interior Finish Company was recently incorporated to 

 operate at Westmoreland, W. Va. 



The Vesper Wood Iilanufacturing Company is an incorporated concern 

 which will operate at Vesper, Wis., with $50,000 capital. 



The Varner Land & Lumber Company of Geridge, Ark., has increased 

 its capital stock to $50,000. 



The Wood Manufacturing Company has started business at Fairfield. 

 Conn., with $50,000 capital stock. 



The Illinois School Furniture Company of liockford. 111., has increased 

 its capital stock to $50,000. 



The Greenfield Wood Turning Company, Greenfield, Ind., has recently 

 gone out of business. 



Wray-Chapman Lounge Company of Hope, Miss., has been succeeded 

 l>v O. D. McCuIlar. 



