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Oil sphagnum dressing has been at work in Canada and the Hospital 

 Dressings Department of the American Red Cross Society in the 

 United States to test the vakie and develop the methods of using the 

 moss. It appears that there is great variety in the raw material, and 

 that so far as tested the moss to be found on the Pacific coast, and 

 somewhat less satisfactory on the Atlantic coast of the United States, 

 is of superior character for this use, that of the interior bogs less so. 

 The moss obtained from the maritime provinces and Newfoundland is 

 of the highest grade. It is also found that the muslin bags used to 

 contain the dressing are best replaced by a new paper tissue of unusual 

 firmness which does not, as the muslin, retard the absorbing capacity 

 of the dressing. A large amount of sphagnum dressings will presently 

 be manufactured. 



It is only fitting to make it known to our readers that the laborious 

 work of compiling the terms used in the logging and lumber industries, 

 which we printed in the first issue of the Journal of the present year, 

 is entirely to be credited to Prof. R. C. Bryant, of Yale Forest School. 

 It is, of course, possible, and indeed probable, with such a large amount 

 of terms, that omissions or even mistakes should occur. Any of our 

 readers finding such will perform a favor by advising Professor Bryant 

 directly. 



The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station publishes a handy 

 bulletin (No. 199), combined with a calendar, giving brief directions 

 for preparing insecticides and fungicides and their use on cultivated 

 plants, including trees. 



One of the pioneers of the early forestry propaganda in the United 

 States, Col. Edgar T. Ensign, died at the ripe age of 79 years in Colo- 

 rado Springs, Colo., on February 15. Colonel Ensign — the title was 

 earned for gallant service in the Civil War — was originally a lawyer, 

 afterward a banker, coming in 1874 from Iowa to Colorado. 



The State, admitted to statehood in 1876, is perhaps the only one 

 that in its constitution provides for a forest policy, and Colonel Ensign 

 was among the first to attempt to have the State committed to a prac- 

 tical application of the policy. He became the first State Commis- 

 sioner of Forestry and scn-ed with singular devotion through political 

 trouliles, part of the time without salary, trying especially to work out 

 a plan for protection from fire. 



