614 JOURNAIv OF FORESTRY 



facturing or shipping lumber, wood pulp, and paper, and other forest 

 products, or in the establishment of a rational system of forestry or in 

 the conservation and development of water power in the State of New 

 York." We note in the membership a number of prominent foresters, 

 and in the program of activities for 1919 a number of genuine forestry 

 problems is proposed, including an effort to secure an amendment of 

 the notorious section in the Constitution of the State preventing cutting 

 of timber on State lands. The president's (G. N, Ostrandei") address 

 on a State policy for the development of water power is issued as a 

 separate. 



A New England Forestry Congress was held in Boston, Mass., Feb- 

 ruary 24 and 25, 1919, under the auspices of the Boston Chamber of 

 Commerce and the Massachusetts Forestry Association. A full and 

 varied program had been prepared, the follow^ing subjects being dis- 

 cussed : Economic Importance of Forestry ; The Water- Power Situa- 

 tion in New England; Home-Grown Timber, the Hope of the Wood- 

 Using Industries in New England ; Pulp and Paper Manufacture and 

 Its Relation to Forestry ; Need for Greater Forest Protection ; Co-op- 

 eration in Forest Fire Protection ; Fungus Diseases at Work in Our 

 Forests ; Forest Conservation in the State of New York ; Social Sig- 

 nificance of Forestry ; The Need of Private Forestry ; State Forest 

 Policy; Restoring the "Sylva" to Penn'a ; State Forest Policies in the 

 United States ; Forestry Policies of Foreign Countries ; Practical For- 

 est Management ; Results of 25 Years' Clean Cutting and Selecting 

 Cutting in New England ; Is the Disposal of Slash in New England 

 Practicable? A Forest Research Program. 



Bulletin 768, U. S. Department of Agriculture, brings the statistics 

 of lumber production in 1917. The cut, with 36 billion feet, was 

 smaller than for 12 years preceding, when it was 40 billion and more. 

 "Attention is directed to the increasingly large per cent of the total 

 production contributed by the bigger operations." Striking is the 

 diagram giving the contribution of various species, which shows how 

 completely yellow pine ocntrols the market with over 13.5 billion feet 

 (38 per cent) ; the next species being Douglas fir, with only a little over 

 5.6 billion, although in the distribution by States Washington and Ore- 

 gon outdistanced Louisiana and ]\Iississippi combined. While in the 

 tabulations bv species both quantities and values per thousand feet are 

 given, we have looked in vain for a total of values that would give an 

 insight into the size of the industry. We note that the value per thou- 



