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The principal kinds of lumber by species of wood used were spruce, 

 1,466.558,000 feet; white pine, 791,609,000 feet; Douglas fir, 706,996,- 

 000 feet : hemlock, 322.722.000 feet ; cedar, 149,999,000 feet ; red pine, 

 119.321.000 feet; balsam fir, 102.373.000 feet, and all other varieties, 

 including custom-sawed lumber, 483.293.000 feet. The total quantities 

 and values of lumber, lath, shingles, and pulpwood cut. and of miscel- 

 laneous products were as follows: Lumber, 4,142,877.000 feet, $83,- 

 655,097; lath. 616.949.000 feet. $1,828,018; shingles. 3.020.956.000 feet, 

 $8,431,215; pulpwood. 988,444 cords. $10,543,630; miscellaneous prod- 

 ucts valued at $11,436,945. 



The Laboratory of Forest Pathology of the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. James R. Weir in charge, 

 has been removed from Missoula, Montana, to Spokane, Washington, 

 where it will be permanently installed in a fire-proof building. The 

 most intensive work of this laboratory is centered in the great white- 

 pine forests of Idaho. To promote pathological investigation in this 

 region, a permanent field station will be established ; also a forest patho- 

 logical museum. All future communications should be addressed to 

 Laboratory of Forest Pathology. Spokane. Washington. 



On December 11, 1918. ]\Iessrs. Giftord Pinchot. W. T. Creasey, and 

 Fred Benckman, acting as a committee on conservation of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State Grange, submitted to that organization an exhaustive report 

 on the forestry situation in Pennsylvania. The report is divided into 

 four parts : Dealing with forests ; waterways, water uses, and water 

 rights; water-power; recommendations for the continuation of the 

 committee on conservation. Copies may be obtained from Mr. Pinchot. 

 whose address until May 15 is 12 18 Real Estate Trust Building, Phila- 

 delphia. Pa. 



Prof. Alfred Akerman. of Georgia, is at present a member of the 

 instructing staff of the New York State College of Forestry at Syra- 

 cuse. He expects to return to Georgia next summer, when he will 

 transfer the Georgia College of Forestry from Greene to Towns 

 County, where a tract of land has been acquired. 



Lewis A. Zimm has accepted an appointment as extension forester 

 for Georgia with the Extension Division of the Georgia State College 



