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install works near the large forests where the raw material could be 

 collected as required, though the leaves might be transported in com- 

 pressed form. 



A new department of Forest Recreation has been established at the 

 New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse University. Professor 

 Henry R. Francis will have charge of this department. During the 

 past five years he has been carrying on landscape extension work both 

 in New York and Massachusetts. This summer he was to begin sys- 

 tematic studies of forest and park areas in New York to prepare bulle- 

 tins for recreational development, and later in the season was to make 

 a trip through the National Forests and National Parks of the West to 

 see what has already been done by the National Government and by 

 the Western States in developing the recreational possibilities of forest 

 lands. 



The Laurentide Company, which was the pioneer in grinding hard- 

 wood for pulp in an experiment last fall, tried a further one this spring 

 when seventy cords of mixed birch, beech, and maple were barked in 

 the drum barkers w^ithout any difficulty and ground into pulp. Owing 

 to the irregularity of the four-foot sticks, barking with knife barkers 

 was proved to be unsuccessful, but the drum barkers removed the bark, 

 if anything, a little more easily from the hardwood than from spruce ; 

 the only difficulty was the weight of the wood, which is harder on the 

 conveyors. Beginning in August, the company was to use hardwood 

 continuously. 



An airplane expedition to ascertain the value of the wood-pulp re- 

 sources of Labrador sailed from New York on July 7 for Newfound- 

 land. The party of 40 was headed by Captain Daniel Owens, who 

 served in the war with the British Air Force. It w^as planned to take 

 aerial photographs of all large forests and from these to calculate the 

 value of the pulpwood. Four airplanes were to.be used in the under- 

 taking. By this method it will take about six weeks to do what would 

 ordinarily require five or six years. 



Prior to the war the ({urintity of Sitka spruce logs annuallv manufac- 

 tured into lumber of all grades in British Columbia did not exceed 

 3,000.000 board feet, only [50,000 board feet of which would have been 



