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Ellwood Wilson recently cut some white spruce (Picca canadensis) 

 near Proulx, Quebec, in natural, second-growth stands, which showed 

 remarkably rapid development. One tree, said by him to be typical, 

 measured 12.05 inches in diameter outside bark at 18 inches above the 

 ground. The age of this tree was 29 years, the height 40 feet, the mer- 

 chantable length 30 feet. It takes 9.4 such trees to make a cord of 

 pulpwood. The current annual increment (c. a. i.) of such a tree is 45 

 cubic feet. The tree was growing on sandy soil, not on a particularly 

 good site. 



The United States Supreme Court on June 7, 191 7, decided the case 

 of the Milwaukee Railroad against the United States. When the rail- 

 road was built through the St. Joe Forest, about ten years ago, the 

 Forest Service made the usual re(juirements that timber cut along the 

 right-of-way must be paid for, and that the railroad must sign certain 

 stipulations to protect National Forest interests. The company refused 

 to do either one and the case has been pending in the courts ever since. 



On October 13. 191 7, the railroad deposited in the Western Mon- 

 tana Xational l>ank the sum of $89,264 in ])ayment of damages, item- 

 ized as follows : 



Mature timber cut on right-of-way and adjacent widths $26,(>'^j.(kj 



Mature timber burned during construction 12,000. o<) 



Immature timber burned during construction J4,CH)o.fK) 



Damages for obstruction of navigation of streams 5,500.00 



Interest at 7 per cent from June 11, 1913. to Octol)cr 11. 1017 20,775. (K) 



$80,264.00 



J. F. P. 



Pennsylvania's Commissioner of Forestry, Robert S. Conkliu, .m- 

 nounces that no limit will be set this year on the mnnber of forest- 

 tree seedlings for free distribution. .\ny one who wants to plant trees 

 next spring may have them for the asking, the only conditions being 

 that applications for less than 500 trees will not bi- lilled, that .ippli- 

 cants must pay for packing and transportation, and that (he trees nuist 

 be planted in Pennsylvania for reforestation. ( )ver 10 million trees 

 are ready to set out next spring. The stock is almost all three years 

 old. and includes white pine, Scotch pine, red |)ine. pitch ])iiie. Xorway 

 spruce. Ktn-opean l.^rcli, Japanese larch, and nil oak. ll is reported 

 to be of better i|n;ilit\' than any srnt out last ve.ir. 



