NOTES Gil 



It is claimed that the clearing off of timherlands has advanced so 

 far in New Zealand that settlers are in imminent danger of being 

 deprived of their supplies of timber and firewood. A campaign is 

 under way to terminate the experiments with exotic species and instead 

 to protect the native forests against fire and improve them through 

 controlled use. 



Yield oe Danish State Forests 



The total cut from the 140,985 acres of Danish State Forests in the 

 fiscal year 1917-1918 amounted to 18,211 cubic feet, or about three 

 times the normal. This increase was due chiefly to the great demand 

 for fuel caused by the war. The cut of timber (3,807 cubic feet), 

 while 50 per cent more than usual, constituted only 21 per cent of the 

 total cut as against twice that proportion in ordinary times. The net 

 money yield from the State Forests amounted to $1,113,063, or 

 $7.90 per acre. Oyer four-fifths of this yield came from the beech 

 forests of the islands, where the net revenue was $18.10 per acre of 

 productive land. Leaving out of consideration the overcutting caused 

 by the war, these forests yielded a net return varying from 3.9 per cent 

 to 13.9 per cent and averaging "j.y per cent. 



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Mexico Starts Forestry School 



In order that a scientific knowledge of reforestry and the protection 

 of existing forests of the country may be obtained, the ^Mexican 

 Government has established a National Forestry School at Coyoacan, 

 Federal District. The course of instruction will cover a period of 

 three years. The students come from nearly all the States and the 

 school was opened on March i with a large attendance. The forest 

 areas of ]\Iexico are very large, but up to this time no scientific regula- 

 tions or knowledge have been applied to the cutting of the timber. The 

 Government plans also to reforest the more barren sections of the 

 country as rapidly as the work can be carried on. 



Major D. T. Mason has relinquished his professional duties at the 

 University of California, for the time being at least, to assist the Bureau 

 of Internal Revenue, in the Treasury Department, in applying the new 

 income and excess-profit taxes to the lumber industry. Major Mason 

 is entering upon his new duties with the full confidence of foresters 

 and lumbermen. We fully agree with what Gen. L. C. Boyle, the coun- 



