5T3 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



from the perusal. Without any introductory remarks, it starts with a 

 financial statement of the cost of fire protection. Without table of 

 contents, we find them divided into five sections, each with a whole 

 page heading, namely : Fire Protection, Maine Forestry District ; Fire 

 Protection, Outside Maine Forestry District; Public Lands, 1918; 

 State Nursery and Forestry Department at the University of Maine, 

 1917-18; White Pine Blister Rust Work in the State of Maine, 1918. 



The department consists in a Land Agent and Forest Commissioner, 

 a Deputy Forest Commissioner, a Director of Public Instruction, and 

 six clerks. Nearly two-thirds of the report is taken up by the subject 

 of fire protection. 



Apparently the cost of fire protection on the "Maine Forestry Dis- 

 trict" (not defined) is covered by special assessment and by a grant 

 from the Federal Forest Service, there having been spent a little over 

 $100,000. With 58 lookout stations, the district seems well served, and 

 with an expenditure of $31,000 for permanent improvements the sys- 

 tem seems to be well kept up. While the damage on the 3,820 acres 

 burned within the district was kept within $7,500, the damage outside 

 the district ran up to over $70,000 on 5,118 acres. The railroads are 

 praised for effective assistance in helping to enforce the slash law. 



It appears that the forestry department at the Agricultural College 

 is organically connected with the Forest Commission, the Professor of 

 Forestry reporting to the Forest Commissioner. A small forest nur- 

 sery, largely worked by the students, sells stock to would-be planters 

 and is on the point of becoming self-supporting. The same professor 

 (John M. Briscoe) also reports on the white pine blister rust work in 

 the State, on which $8,820 were spent, about one-half furnished by 

 Federal lunds. The most interesting part of the report refers to the 

 per-acre cost determination of this work, which finally works out to 82 

 cents per acre. B. E. F. 



The Regenerative Forests of Eastern Kentucky and Their Relation 

 to the Coal Mining Industry. By J. E. Barton. Circular 8. Office of 

 the Commissioner of Geology and Forestry. Pp. 4. 



Kentucky is one of the States where forestry is joined to geology, a 

 commissioner taking care of both interests, the quondam State Forester 

 having become such Commissioner. 



In this short circular the relation of mine and forest in the section 

 imder discussion is interestingly analyzed and the "regenerative" char- 

 acter — that is, the tendency to natural regeneration — of the hardwood 

 forest accentuated. 



