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proved for purchase, the average purchase price being $6 an acre, the 

 largest tract, one of 31,667 acres, in Polk County, Tennessee, filling 

 out the entire southern end of what is known as the Cherokee Purchase 

 Area. A large portion is well timbered, there being more than 20,000,- 

 000 feet of merchantable timber on the entire tract. The first lands to 

 be acquired in Arkansas through purchase of 997 acres block in with 

 lands in the Arkansas and Ozark National Forests, which were created 

 by the reservation of lands formerly a part of the public domain. 



A proclamation has been issued by the President to establish three 

 new National Forests in the East, namely, the White Mountains in 

 Maine and New Hampshire, the Shenandoah in Virginia and West 

 Virginia, and the Natural Bridge in Virginia, making a total of five 

 Forests in the Eastern States. 



One phase of forest conservation is the elimination of waste in the 

 utilization of lumber. One way to utilize the small pieces of waste 

 lumber has been devised by T. I. Temple, foreman in the Pennsylvania 

 ship-building plant at Portland. The waste pieces are worked up 

 into panels, which are formed by means of narrow cleats pressed into 

 grooves previously cut into the back of each piece, the grooves being 

 cut by machinery and slightly bevelled on one side. The cleats are 

 pressed into the grooves by a convex roller, forcing the edge into the 

 bevel, which will hold them permanently in place, no glue or nails being 

 necessary. The individual panels are bevelled on the sides and fas- 

 tened to the wall, floor, or ceiling by means of a narrow rail cut to 

 fit over the bevel. In order to make the plan of commercial value, it 

 is necessary that the mills adopt standard sizes and patterns, when it 

 will be possible to make up panels from the various kinds of mill 

 products. 



I 

 Pennsylvania's State forest nurseries raised more trees last year than 

 ever before, but the number to be planted in State forests this year will 

 probably be less than last year because of the difficulty of securing 

 labor. An offer, however, has been made that any one in Pennsylvania 

 who wants to plant trees may have them for the asking, with this one 

 condition : that application for less than 500 trees will not be filled ; 

 that the trees must be actually planted for reforestation in Pennsyl- 

 vania and not sold ; and, of course, the applicant must pay for packing 

 and transportation. The available stock for free distribution is almost 

 all three-year-olds, and include red oak, Norway spruce, European 



