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L. B. McBrayer, outlining reforestation work proposed to be carried 

 on in typical cut-over longleaf pine on State lands. The white pine 

 blister rust came in for consideration by S. B. Detwiler. Mr. W. R. 

 Mattoon discussed the farm forests of North Carolina. 



Resolutions were passed asking the legislature to appropriate funds 

 for forest fire protection, urging the passage of the State-wide stock 

 law, and indorsing the bill for the creation of a State game commis- 

 sion. Congress was also asked to approve the treaty with Canada for 

 the protection of migratory birds, to continue its assistance to the 

 States in fire protection, and to make an appropriation for the suppres- 

 sion of the white pine blister disease. 



The State of Washington is one of the six States which has two 

 public institutions at which forestry is being taught, namely, at the 

 State University at Seattle and at the State College at Pullman, both 

 conferring degrees. Lately, by legislative act, permission to confer 

 forestry degrees was withdrawn from the latter institution, and while 

 the teaching of the subject will be continued, it will be limited in scope, 

 while the work at the University will be broadened. 



The Upper Ottawa timber limit owners have joined the Lower 

 Ottawa and St. Maurice Valley Protective Associations to the extent 

 that now over 30,000 square miles of the timberlands in Quebec are 

 under systematic lire control, Mr. Arthur H. Graham being the man- 

 ager. It is expected that the Provincial Government will come in for 

 patrol of the unlicensed crown lands of the region. 



Wood prices in Switzerland in December, 1916, were 50 to 65 per 

 cent higher for conifers than at the same time a year before, and for 

 beech the increase was 25 to 45 per cent. 



American Conifers Cultivated in New Zealand 



Mr. T. W. Adams, a valued correspondent, living at Canterbury 



New Zealand, has published in The Transactions of the New Zealand 



Institute (Vol. XLVIII, 1916) a most interesting account of "The 



species of the genus Pinus now growing in New Zealand." Other 



