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nical and semi-technical material is substituted for some of the more 

 popular articles on birds, shade trees, memorial trees, etc. Members 

 can have either one or the other edition. The object, of course, is to 

 interest readers in the technicalities of the subject. The November 

 number contains the following material of this character: An ac- 

 count of the forest plantation on Pikes Peak ; a short statement regard- 

 ing the Federal income tax on forest industries ; an account of the 

 forestry practice of the Homestake Mining Co. in South Dakota ; a 

 controversial discussion of Compton's fourteen points, and several 

 other brief statements regarding a national forest policy ; an account 

 of forest restoration in Belgium ; extension work in forestry ; a descrip- 

 tion of timber cruising in British Columbia. 



Mr. Jorge Pinzon, formerly of Yale Forest School, has returned 

 to his native country of Colombia, South America. He is connected 

 with the firm of Patterson, Gottfried & Hunter at Bogota, and is 

 studying the possibility of exporting on a large scale some of the 

 valuable forest resources of Colombia. Mr. Pinzon reports that the 

 Colombian Fiscal Code of 1912 was modified in 1919. A Forest Com- 

 ment has been authorized to send three students to study forestry 

 movement in Colombia and to supervise the execution of the regula- 

 tions to be formulated by the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Govern- 

 mission has been decreed having ample power to guide the forestry 

 abroad. Mr. Pinzon was able to assist the Minister of Agriculture in 

 the formulation of the Forest Regulations, and is still serving in an 

 advisory capacity. 



The Conservation Commissioner of the State of New York. C. D. 

 Pratt, attempts a novel way of attracting attention of the legislature 

 to his needs, namely, by an open letter to the Governor and members 

 of the legislature during the recess of the latter so that they may have 

 time to ruminate upon them. The most important of his propositions 

 is a division of the State into ten forestry districts, each to be placed 

 under the supervision of an experienced forester, whose business it 

 would be to advance forestry and forest policies in his district in every 

 way, in forest protection, forest survey, assistance in private reforest- 

 ing, scientific cutting, marketing forest products, etc. There is also 

 provided distrilmtif)n of jilant material free of charge, and rcvi'^ion of 

 taxation. 



