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itnlicate that a good gratf is superfluous. A 

 Ini'm' stack merely affords facilities for a strong 

 draft by giving; the heated air and products of 

 eombustion aniph' room to escape without re- 

 sistance ; the Gordon Hollow Blast Urate pro- 

 duces a strong draft by forcing the air in under 

 pressure and making a hotter fire. The grate 

 is far superior to an oven, which, while pos- 

 sessing several excellent advantages, does not 

 increase the draft positively. 



Tlie Gordon Hollow Klast < irate inatcrhiUy 

 Increases the difference in pressure at the grate 

 line, thereby accelerating the draft ; means are 

 l)rovided for regulating this pressure to a nicety. 

 It keeps the sawdust loose, thereby giving the 

 natural draft, as well as the blast, a chance. 

 It increases the (piantity of oxygen In a given 

 volume of air by compressing it. It causes the 

 .sawdust to dry more quickly. 



The manufacturers advert i.si' far and wide 

 iliat the Gordon Hollow lilast Grate will add 

 from twenty-five to fifty per cent to the power 

 developed by a boiler : tliat it will produce as 

 good results with wet. green or frozen sawdust 

 as a draft grate produces with dry wood ; that 

 the user may have thirty days in which to make 

 an exhaustive test, and that if. at any time 

 during thirty days, he linds the makers have 

 iuisrei)resenicd — he to be the sole and undisputed 

 ju'lge — or if he does not wisli to keep it. for 

 any reason satisfactory to himself, he may n-- 

 lurn the apparatus at their expense. Yet. not- 

 withstanding the extreme liberality of these 

 terms, in seventeen years and out of over 5,000 

 sets sold all over the continent. less than twenty 

 users have seen fit to avail themselves of the 

 njiportunity to return the outfit. 



What more striking, convincing and practical 

 proof could there be that the manufacturers' 

 claims are all well founded, and stated without 

 exaggeration'.' Those interested would do well 

 to write the Gordou Hollow HIast Grate Com- 

 pany of (ireenville. .Mich., fnr furtlier particu- 

 lars. 



Forestry Schools in Japan. 



The first school of forestry to be started in 

 -Tapan was established twenty-three years ago, 

 and today that country has sixty-two institutions 

 for the training of students and the directing 

 of popular attention to the great science of 

 forestry and its practical application. The large 

 forests belong to the crown and are under the 

 control of the department of agriculture. The 

 area of forest 'and in .Tapan is about (iO.000.000 

 acres, of which the government controls about 

 half. In the ten years ending with 190i .Japan's 

 exports of lumber were valued at -i: 2. "1. 000. 000. 



The climate of the Ilokaido country, where 

 the largest stands of trees are found, is favor- 

 able to forest growth. In the old wooded sec- 

 tions reforestry is taking place mainly on the 

 rugged slopes of mountain ranges. However, 

 the .Japanese are not as frugal with the young 

 forest growth as they might be. The frame- 

 work of buildings is largely of rough hewn 

 poles, and altogether too much young timber 

 is used for charcoal, which is produced exten- 

 sively in Japan. That country has been using 

 limbers since the ages antedating the famous 

 cedars of Lebanon, and many a grand old 

 monarch is maintained with great care in pub- 

 lic squares and on broad avenues. 



riiarlotte. X. C : Spartansburg, S. C : Savannah, 

 .S. G. : Augusta and Columbus. Ga.. and Mont 

 gomery. Ala., with other points in prospect. 



( >n the evening of (^ct. 1 I>r. Will spoke in 

 I'liarloile. \. i'., on this subject. A large and 

 enthusiastic audience greeted the distinguished 

 sp.-aktT. He pointed out that the Appalachian 

 I)ritji-<t included the questions of wood and water 

 cliji'liy. of the first two great wood areas of 

 llie I'nited States, those of New Kngland, the 

 Great Lakes, the N'cjrthwest and the Soutli. he 

 declared the first twr) are practically gone, and 

 the thii-d and fourth arc going with such alarm- 

 ing speed tJiat a wood famine is almost upon .us. 

 lie pointed oni that the nation's supply of hard- 

 woods in the Great Lakes region, the Ohio val- 

 ley, the Lower Mississippi and the Southern Ap- 

 palachian region was almost exhausted in thi' 

 thn-e first named sections, and that our reli- 

 ance was in the last named. 



I>r. Will then show<'d that oiir siu-cess in 

 manufacturing depends directly or indirectly 

 upon water power and requires equable stream 

 fiow. which is insured in a large measure by 

 the presence of forests upon the mountain sloiies. 

 lie showed the dire effect upon manufacturing 

 and other businesses should this denudation be 

 eontinued. lie stated that flood damages in the 

 South had already attained serious proportions, 

 and referred lo the fate of foreign lands whose 

 fcirests wi're thus destroyed as a warning. 



After the address the following resolution was 

 introduced, which was adopted : 



"Whereas. *l"hi- American people are consum- 

 ing wood three or four times as fast as they 

 aiM i}ri):Iueing it. l]ii'fe!)y inviting a famine iu 

 wood : 



"Whereas. The chief stock of hardwoods of 

 the I'nited States is found in the South, the 

 destruction of which wood must menace the 

 well lieing uf the nation : 



"Whereas. Manufacturing depending largely 

 upon water power or electricity generated there- 

 from has become a leading southern industry : 



"Whereas. Not only southern woods but soutli- 

 ern water powers are threatened by the rapid 

 deniulation of sruithern mountain slopes: 



"Whereas. Experience both at home and in 

 foreign lands has proved that the only S()lution 

 of this i)rol)lem lies in government ownership 

 and adminisi ration of forests controlling stream 

 fi<iw : ami 



"Whereas. l)elay is not only dangerous but 

 increasingly wasteful : therefore be it 



"Uesolved. That we strongly urge the imme- 

 diate enactment of the bill providing for the 

 establishment of national forests in the southern 

 Appalachian mountains, and that we commend 

 evi-rv right effort looking to this end." 



The Forest Reserve Question. 



Tbi' Department of Forestry is making stn-n 

 nous attempts to interest the people of the Soutli 

 iu the measures which are being taken to pre- 

 vent the denudation of their resources in this 

 line and the consequent destruction of great 

 branches of commerce and sources of prosperity. 



Dr. Thomas E. Will, secretary of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association, is presenting the Ap- 

 palachian question in a series of illustrated lec- 

 tures in the leading cities of the South. The 

 itinerary includes Haleigh. Durham, Salem and 

 Ga. : Asheville. X. C ; (Ireenville and Charleston. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The (Men Arbor Lumber Company of Glen 

 Arboi-. Mich., has finished its cut at that place 

 and has sold its railroad, engine and other 

 equipment to D. H. Day of Glen Haven, who 

 will operate same between his mill on Glen 

 Lake and the Glen Haven pier. Mr. Day's mill 

 1ms a fifteen-year cut ahead of it. 



\'andals in one night cut down ."^no two-year- 

 old hard maple trees on Thirteenth. Fourteenth 

 and Fifteenth streets in Sterling, 111. A reward 

 of .$700 was offered for their conviction. 



Xewport. Ark., has acquired the mill of the 

 Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Company, for- 

 merly located at Jacksonport. and will soon be 

 the site of a single and double-tree and neck- 

 yoke finishing plant belonging to the same com- 

 pany. The company intends to put iu a large 

 band mill next Spring which will employ about 

 200 men. and give Xewport's growth and devel- 

 opment a big uplift. 



The Talbert-Zoller Lumber aud Veneer Com- 

 pany of Winton Place. Hamilton i ounty. was 

 incorporati'd at Columbus, O.. Sept. UT : capital. 



0. L. Houck. president and general manager 

 of the Miami Valley Sash and E>oor Company. 



and one of the most substantial and highly 

 esteemed citizens of Dayton. O.. died recently 

 iu that city after a nervous breakdown and seri- 

 ous illness of five weeks' duration. 



I'aul Perrizo of I'errizo &. Sons. Daggett, Mich., 

 reports that since they have taken over the Tal- 

 bot Lumber Company of Talbot. Mich., they are 

 kept busy supplying orders. Since the middle 

 of Marrh they have been cutting maple, beech, 

 birch and basswood from their own timber lands. 

 The company's animal output is about 1.000. 000 

 feet. 



The I'liifin Handle Manufacturing Company of 

 Ashley, G.. of which IL !.►. Hale is manager, is 

 adding a new and c^miplete wood D handle mill 

 to their already extensive lines, with a capacity 

 of 2nu dozens per day. The new outfit will be 

 in operation Xov. L 



The plant of (Jeo. H. Ivepbarl Jt Son. Ada, O., 

 manufacturers of hand farming tool bandies and 

 wood novelties of various kinds, was totallj* de- 

 stroyed by fire the night of Oct. .">. . 



C. U. Simons, the senior member of the North 

 State Veneer Company of Statesville. N. C., died 

 on Sept. 15. 



The Holland \'eneer C<)mpany of Holland, 

 Mich., whic-h moved into a new building recently. 

 has fimnd it necess.Mry to enlarge its plant for 

 the third time within the year on account of 

 growing business. The new addition will be 

 40x.">0 feet, two stories high and basement. 



Wm. I. Hall of the Forest Service, Washing- 

 ton. D. C., recently made a tour of inspection 

 through the mountainous regions of the East, 

 and in an interview said : "Of course should the 

 Appalachian forest reserve be established it will 

 not mean that n(me of the trees will be cut down, 

 but that they will be cut down according to a 

 certain system. For instance, no small trees can 

 bi' cut and where trees are cut others must be 

 planted iit their places. The government has long 

 recognized that something must be done to save 

 the trees of the country. Aside from the ma- 

 terial value of the trees saved in the forest pre- 

 serve, it will be of untold value as an education 

 feature. Public sentiment is being fast educated 

 for the preservation of the trees." 



The governments of Korea and- Japan have 

 entered into an agreement for the purpose of 

 opening up the forests of the Yalu district. Of 

 the large capital required — 1.20u.oiHi yen — each 

 government will contribute half. Reports upon 

 the conduct of the fcu-est operations will be made 

 to each government every year. 



Workmen engaged in excavating for a highway 

 near Palmyra. X. Y.. recently unearthed a large 

 white oak tree twenty-five feet below the road 

 level. Evidently the tree bad been buried for 

 hundreds of years, as it was completely petrified, 

 resembling black marble to the very core. Scien- 

 tists who examined the spot where it was found 

 express the opinion that a forest once stood 

 there and that the surrounding hills and over- 

 lying earth resulted from some great cataclysm. 



Railway sleepers are treated by injections of 

 creosote or sulphate of copper, in the tropics, to 

 prevent the fierce attacks of insects which would, 

 otherwise destroy them completely. 



Reports from St. Petersburg state that during 

 the week of Sept. L'O a number of fires occurred 

 in the great timber yards belonging to the crown. 

 They are supposed to be of incendiary origin, due 

 to dissatisfaction with certain prospective re- 

 forms. The timber yards are said to be seriously 

 mismanaged, and the facts have so disgusted 

 Prince Vassilchikoff, general director of land or- 

 ganization and agriculture, that be will resign. 



The Clark & Gay Manufacturing Company, 

 which has heretofore maintained headquarters at 

 I ronton. Mo., will remove to Little Rock. Ark. 

 It has purchased a large tract of laud near the 

 city and will erect thereon a hardwood manufac- 

 turing plant that will employ 100 men at the 

 start. The plants at Williamsville and Elling- 

 ton. Mo., are to consolidate at Little Rock. The 

 output will be largely wagon stock, and will take 

 all the timber manufactured, as well as some 

 from outside sources. 



