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have been applied to the cutting of the timber. Reforestation of the 

 more barren sections of the country is also contemplated. 



According to a report of the Director of the Bureau of Forestry of 

 the Philippine Islands, the raw materials available for paper manufac- 

 ture, such as the bamboo and two kinds of grasses, the cogon and the 

 talahib, are of such good quality and can be so cheaply obtained that 

 the islands should not need to import annually two million dollars' 

 worth of paper, but should in time be in position even to export large 

 quantities of newsprint. 



A United States Forest Service ranger has devised for the use of 

 lookouts a simple eye protector to protect the eyes against the bright 

 glare in the atmosphere at high elevations. It is made of cardboard, 

 l^ainted black, fitting over the eyes, and has a long horizontal opening 

 lined with narrow strips which prevent the entrance of light from the 

 sides ; also from above and below. A test was to be made this summer 

 by several lookouts. 



The Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin, during the 

 war developed a rapid method of seasoning oak. the time for which 

 was reduced from two to three years of air seasoning of heavy oak 

 wagon stock to 90 or too days for three-inch material green from the 

 saw. Three large plants using this system record negligible losses and 

 as compared with losses at plants using other methods ranged from 10 

 ])er cent up to complete loss. 



The names of W. S. Moir and H. M. Meloney, students at Yale 

 Forestry School and New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse 

 University, respectively, are announced among those of ten American 

 college students to receive $1,000 each from the American-Scandina- 

 vian Foundation to enable them to go to Sweden to study in exchange 

 with ten Swedish students to come to America. 



The Dominion parks of Canada, which are maintained as wild-life 

 sanctuaries, include an area of 7,927 square miles, or more than 5,000,- 

 000 acres, nearly equal to one-half the total area of Switzerland, almost 

 as large as Belgium, and nearly 1,000 square miles greater than the 

 area of Wales. 



