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In regard to woodpulp consumption, IGO mills figure in the pre- 

 liminary statement, with 3,419,000 cords, of which around one-third 

 was made by mechanical process. 



In the strenuous effort to advertise and at the same time rationalize 

 the use of wood, the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association is 

 issuing a bewildering multiplicity of serial literature. Not less than 

 four different series of publications reach our desk, namely, News 

 Letters, Farm Bulletins, a Better Buildings Journal, and Engineering 

 Bulletins. We have from time to time made references to these pub- 

 lications as usually sound and informatory woods literature. The 

 latest (January, 1917) is a Farmers' Bulletin, No. 7, which gives detail 

 information as regards construction of Dairy and General Purpose 

 Barns, other such farm bulletins having discussed Implement Sheds, 

 Grain Storage Buildings, Poultry House Construction. The Better 

 Buildings series, first number, issued in November, 1916, gives advice 

 as to garage buildings. 



Under the lead of the Massachusetts Forestry Association, a bill 

 has been introduced (H. B. 1413) in the Massachusetts legislature 

 asking for an appropriation of $60,000 to control the white pine blister 

 disease, to be expended under the State Board of Agriculture by the 

 nursery inspector of the State, besides $5,000 to be expended each year 

 for experiments in the line of control. It gives the right to the inspector 

 to destroy infected Ribes or pines, compensation for destruction of 

 cultivated, not infected, plants being provided, to be determined by a 

 board. 



The seventh annual meeting of the North Carolina Forestry Asso- 

 ciation was held in Raleigh, North Carolina, January 24 and 25. Gov- 

 ernor Bickett, in his welcoming address, assured the association of his 

 sympathy with every reasonable effort to preserve the forests of the 

 State. 



Addresses were made by Dr. Job Taylor, president of the Halifax 

 Paper Corporation, accentuating the need of fire protection and closer 

 utilization of waste material ; by J. G. Peters, on the need of appro- 

 priations to carry the good fire law of the State into force; by Dr. 



