250 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



The University of Washington has now obtained for its forestry 

 department a demonstration forest, which lies in the Snoqualmie 

 National Forest. It is proposed to have the advanced students go to 

 this forest every year to get their actual experience in the timber. 

 Students themselves will do the logging and study methods of trans- 

 porting logs. 



As forestry schools grow older and turn out an increasing number 

 of graduates, it is of practical interest to keep track of the develop- 

 ment of the latter by occasional Who's Who publications. 



The University of Michigan Forester, published once each semester 

 by the forestry club of the university, since 1913, in its latest issue 

 brings such a list of its graduates on 29 pages, giving brief accounts 

 of their accomplishments. 



An expenditure of $10,000,000 for the purchase of additional 

 forest preserves for the State of New York was voted at the last 

 election. There is, of course, no economic thought behind this vote, 

 the park idea being still uppermost in the minds of the promoters of 

 this scheme; The New York State park comprises now 1,714,500 

 acres in the Adirondacks and Catskills, to which additions are to be 

 made, besides spending $2,500,000 in the Highlands of the Hudson. 



Basing their work upon the fact that the chestnut blight is an 

 introduction from China and Japan, where, however, it appears not 

 to be deadly to the native stock, the agents of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture are engaged in producing blight-resistant 

 chestnut trees for American use. Hybrids between Japanese chestnut 

 and native chinquapin have been raised in considerable numbers. 

 They quickly grow into handsome dwarf trees and bear profuse crops 

 of excellent nuts ripening weeks before any other chestnuts. 



While this is good news for orchard planting, it will hardly lead 

 to reestablishment of our lost chestnut forest^, the loss of which is 

 estimated to entail between 60 and 100 million dollars. 



