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fount of education in India will be able, within a similar period, to 

 infuse the foresight, breadth of view, and business acumen necessary 

 for the proper management of the commercial end of the department." 



Mr. Hu Maxwell, in American forestry for April, brings together 

 interesting information regarding medicinal properties of trees and a 

 few other plants as used by the Indians. The following species by 

 some part or other — buds, leaves, twigs, bark, roots, fruit — furnished 

 the materia medica : Cherry, dogwood (Cornus florida), heech. (Fagus 

 atropiinicca), Virginia snake root {Aristolochia scrpentaria) . Seneca 

 snake root (Polygalia senega), yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) , 

 Angelica tree, or prickly ash (Aralia spinosa), Hercules club {Xan- 

 thoxylum clavahercules) , butternut (Juglans cinerea), elder (Samhii- 

 cus canadensis) (applied externally only), umbrella tree (Magnolia 

 tripctala), hickory, black walnut, white ash, arborvitse (Thuja occiden- 

 talis), slippery elm (Ulmus pubcscens), white pine (Pinus strobus), 

 sassafras, mesquite (Prosopis juli flora), yaupon holly (Ilex vornitoria). 

 greasewood (Covillea tridentata). 



A note in Forest Leaves (December, 191 7) points out that the sub- 

 stitution of fuelwood for coal should be made where team haul instead 

 of railroad haul is practicable, and especially where heat is required 

 only occasionally, as in churches, halls, summer cottages, etc. Fuel 

 values for various woods are given, seasoned wood being understood, 

 varying between one and two cords equivalent to a ton of anthracite. 

 A table shows a comparison of money values per cord of wood and 

 ton of coal at which equal fuel values are secured. 



"If the consumer can buy coal at $8 a ton, it would hardly be worth 

 his while to burn first-class wood at $8 a cord, except in an open fire- 

 place, because coal is a more convenient fuel. If, however, coal be- 

 comes so scarce that it cannot be secured in sufficient quantities, the 

 consumer will, in some cases, have to burn wood at $10 or even $15 

 a cord. 



The lower grades of California ])ine are used verv extensivcK in the 

 manufacture of boxes. Because of the large fruit crop in 1917. as well 

 as the prospects for an excellent crop this year, an unusually heavy 

 demand for l)()x lutnber has led to an increase in ])rice of from about 

 $13 per thousand to about $25 i)er thousand. The demand for box 

 shook has been so heavy that a number of fruit-packing concerns have 



