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of the most serious losses was that of the files containing the mailing 

 lists and official records, which cover a period of thirteen years of 

 State forestry work. In some respects it is necessary to begin the work 

 over again, although the published reports contain a record of fair 

 accomplishment. Since the mailing list will have to be entirely remade, 

 it is important that those who wish to secure future publications of 

 the Maryland State Board of Forestry should make application to be 

 entered on the new mailing list. 



A bill was introduced in Congress in November, extending the oper- 

 ation of the Weeks law "for the i)rotection of the watersheds of 

 navigable streams and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of. 

 lands," etc., and making appropriations therefore at the rate of 

 $2,000,000 for five years, in all $10,000,000. 



From the report of the Forest Reservation Commission for 1918 

 (H. R. Doc. No. 1495, (Joth Congress, 3d Session), we learn that out 

 of 9,078,575 acres of surveyed watershed 1,051,790 acres have been 

 approved for purchase, the price ranging from $1.50 to $15, and 

 averaging $5.25 per acre, the whole amount expended so far being 

 $8,675,842. Of this acreage about half is culled and cut over, one- 

 eighth in young growth, nearly ten per cent are classed as burned, 

 barren, or stocked with unmerchantable timber, and the balance 

 abandoned farm land. The respective purchase acres have been 

 aggregated into four National Forests, namely, the Alabama, the 

 Natural Bridge, the Shenandoah, and the White Mountain. 



The report refers with satisfaction to the fact that these forest lands, 

 besides their influence on waterflow, have demonstrated their utility 

 from the supply point of view during the war. They have furnished 

 walnut timber for airplane stock, as well as spruce, chestnut wood, 

 and chestnut oak bark for tanning purposes. 



The College of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Nanking, 

 China, makes it its business to collect tree seeds for sale, applying the 

 profits to "the furthering of forestry in China." To facilitate trade in 

 the United States, bills may be paid to a special treasurer of the 

 University located in New York, Mr. Russell Carter. 150 Fifth Avenue. 

 Some thirty species are offered, but most of them of only ornamental 

 xaluc to us so far. 



A{ the conference arranged by the New York State b'orcstry Asso- 

 ciation at .'^vracuse on November 15, all ])()ints on which there was 



