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amounts to be classed as statutory timber land. One-third of the total 

 area, or over 100,000 square miles, once forested has been totally de- 

 stroyed by fire, and more than half this mileage has been seriously 

 damaged. The loss through forest fires in standing timber is estimated 

 at over 665 billion feet. 



It is stated that when, last February, President Wilson was to make 

 a momentous announcement before both houses of Congress the Chi- 

 cago Tribune sold 700,000 copies for that issue. For this issue 84 

 acres of woodland were cut in Canada; the paper was made in mills 

 along the Welland Canal, where 510 men were kept busy for four days. 

 If the papers had been spread out sheet to sheet they would have 

 reached from Bering Strait to Cape Horn, and if that amount of paper 

 had been bought in the 6o's it would have cost $185,000. 



Co-operative agreements have recently been made between the State 

 foresters, the Extension Divisions of the Agricultural Colleges of 

 Maryland and Virginia, and the U. S. Forest Service to promote and 

 assist in the marketing of farm timber. The technical control of the 

 work rests with the State foresters and the Forest Service, whose rep- 

 resentatives give specific demonstrations under the auspices of the 

 county agents. 



Co-operative arrangements have been made with 126 individual 

 owners controlling about 250,000 acres of timber lands in California, 

 whereby the Forest Service assumes the detection and fighting of all 

 fires that may occur. The lands are sitviated within the territory cov- 

 ered by the rangers of the Eldorado and Tahoe forests. This protec- 

 tion is obtained at an average cost of i^ cents per acre, paid by the 

 owners. 



The Indian Forester for August, 1918, contains a photograph show- 

 ing two seedlings of sal that have come up from one seed, and a corre- 

 spondent writes that this is not an infrequent occurrence. ]\Iany would 

 take the two shoots to be the main stem and an oflfshoot, the latter 

 appearing before the former died down ; but in many cases examination 

 will prove them to be two separate shoots from the one seed. 



A total of 2.275 acres was planted within the St. Joe, Lolo, Pend 

 Oreille, and Cabinet National Forests of the ^lissoula district during 



