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ant engineer to fill vacancies in the Forest Products Laboratory at 

 Madison, Wisconsin. The salary attached is from $i,86o to $3,000 for 

 the engineer and from $1,200 to $1,800 for the assistant. The exam- 

 ination will count education 50 per cent and experience 50 per cent. 

 The duties include the usual investigations in the lumber and paper 

 industry, and the Service will insist on men being graduates of recog- 

 nized universities or colleges. 



The publishing house of Thomas Nelson & Son, of Edinburgh, Scot- 

 land, foreseeing a paper famine throughout the world within a few 

 years, has planted about 1,000 acres of land at Trinidad, B. W. I., in 

 bamboo, from which it plans to manufacture paper. The firm is said 

 to have designed a machine which will mash and remove knots from 

 the bamboo, and to have found a dye or bleach which removes the yel- 

 lowish-green color from the woodpulp and makes it perfectly white. 



A United States patent for a machine by E. F. Millard describes a 

 process for making an all-groundwood newsprint paper, in which about 

 50 per cent of a short-fibered pulp is mixed with 50 per cent of a long- 

 fibered pulp, both being produced by the one machine ; the long fibers 

 facilitate the running of the pulp, while the short fibers give strength 

 and finish to the sheet. 



War Brevities 



A walnut tree on the college campus at Crawfordsville, Indiana, was 

 recently sold for $650 to the W. T. Thompson Veneer Company. 

 The tree will be manufactured into airplane stock and veneers for the 

 piano trade. 



A Douglas fir flagpole, 300 feet high, has been erected at Camp 

 Lewis. This smashes the record of a 215-foot Douglas fir flagpole of 

 the Kew Botanical Garden in England, which for years was credited 

 with having the tallest flagpole. 



Cub bears are in great demand by the various units of the army in 

 the Northwest as mascots, and the forest rangers of District i have 

 been called on to supply the demand. 



