]^92 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



Among minor forest products appear juniper oil, cedar oil, and hem- 

 lock oil, for the extraction of which the Quinte Chemical Co., with 

 a capital stock of $40,000. was lately established in Desoronto, Canada. 



To impress the wastefulness of cutting small-diameter trees the New 

 York Conservation Commission publishes a diagram comparing the 

 number of trees of various sizes required to make 1,000 feet of lumber. 

 The numbers run 50 for G-inch trees ; 21 for 8-inch ; 13 for 10-inch ; 

 8 for 12-inch; 6 for 14-inch; 4 for 16-inch, and 3 for 18-inch trees. 



The Dominion Forestry Branch of Canada has continued its work 

 at the' Forestry Experiment Station at Petawawa, Ontario, by laying 

 out a number of permanent sample plots for the study of growth, yield, 

 stem form, and habits of certain species under various conditions, com- 

 bined wih experiments with different silvicultural methods of plant- 

 ing, thinning, cutting, etc. The investigations are carried on under 

 the supervision of Mr. Claughton-Wallin. 



The Forest Preserve Commission of Cook County, alias Chicago, 

 is ambitious to rival Boston with its forest parks. For the present 

 the forest preserve comprises nearly 15,000 acres in 16 separate tracts 

 and the plan is to double this acreage. So far around $3,000,000 have 

 been expended. The preserve is divided into eight districts, each v;ith 

 a "district forester" in charge. 



A timber raft on novel lines, 360 feet long, 42 feet beam, 18 feet 

 deep, containing 1,242 standards of sawed timber of various dimensions, 

 built by a Canadian in Norway, was this summer successfully towed 

 through a storm across the North Sea to England. 



On October 6 the offices of the American Forestry Association in 

 Washington were burned out, entailing a loss, especially of back 

 issues of the magazine. A call for assistance in replacing back issues 

 of American Forestry is printed in the November number. 



Within the past two or three years fourteen Canadian pulp and paper 

 companies have engaged professional foresters. 



