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plants are produced by fall sowing. Higher germination was secured 

 from sowing at that period with both species and by far the best-devel- 

 oped plants. The plants were larger, more sturdy, and had a well- 

 developed branching root system. The seedlings from fall-sown seed 

 also matured their buds earlier and accordingly were in a better condi- 

 tion to withstand injury from frost than seedlings from spring-sown 

 seed. 



The legislature of Quebec has appropriated $100,000 for the provin- 

 cial forest service and the inspection of lands for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1920; also $7,000 for the maintenance of the provincial forest 

 nursery at Berthierville. These amounts are very materially supple- 

 mented by the expenditures on forest-fire protection incurred by the 

 Ottawa River, St. Maurice, Laurentian, and Southern St. Lawrence 

 forest protective associations, which patrol the great bulk of the licensed 

 and privately owned timber lands in the province. The expenditures 

 of these four associations on fire protection during the past year total 

 $177,729. 



Experience in Switzerland with the use of wood in coal-burning loco- 

 motives has proved that this can be done without any changes, provided 

 that some coal be mixed with the wood to fill interstices. But it takes 

 two firemen to keep up speed for passenger trains ; and then, while 

 coal-fed locomotives make 400 to 500 kilometers, on wood they can 

 make only 60 to 100 kilometers with the amount the tenders can carry, 

 7 to 12 steres (i stere equals about 35.3 cubic feet) ; hence only slow 

 trains can be run on wood. 



Lieutenant Edward M. Buol, Company C. ii6th Engineers. A. E. F.. 

 writes that he will return to his former position. Professor of Logging 

 Engineering in the School of Forestry of the Oregon State College, at 

 the opening of the college year this fall. Lieutenant Buol went to 

 France with the 20th Engineers as a private. He attended an officers' 

 school in France and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. By 

 peculiar chance he was sworn in as a commissioned officer bv one of his 

 former students. Lieutenant Haseltine. 



During the past year the forest revenues of the Province of New 

 Brunswick from Crown lands reached the highest figure in the history 

 of the province, with the exception of the years 191 3 and 19 14, when 



