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wood than in the heavy chipping, at the same time avoiding the 

 tendency to "dry face." 



Osage orange has been demonstrated a good dye wood, now 

 $750,000 worth being used. 



With a view to discovering possible new uses for wood distillation 

 products as a provision against the slump in this industry which seems 

 pending upon the cessation of the present war, experiments were 

 started to produce solvents from crude acetone oils. These studies 

 have succeeded in producing on a laboratory scale some water-white 

 solvents which have given excellent results in dissolving twelve of the 

 most important gums used in the lacquer and varnish industry. 



The University of Washington College of Forestry announces 

 favorable progress in negotiations for the proposed demonstration 

 forest. In August, 1915, the representatives of the United States 

 Forest Service approved selection by the State of the Pilchuck and 

 Sultan watersheds, in Snohomish County, Washington, in lieu of a 

 portion of the State school lands scattered throughout the National 

 Forests. During the recent session of the Washington Legislature an 

 act was passed authorizing the university to exchange a portion of its 

 more or less scattered land grant for the above tract. Since the neces- 

 sary surveys will require a year, the transfer is expected to be com- 

 pleted in about that time. 



The tract in question contains about (30,000 acres, about 40,000 of 

 which is commercial timber land, the rest being above the commercial 

 timber zone. The stand is estimated at approximately 1,700,000,000 

 feet b, m., and includes all coniferous species of western Washington, 

 though western hemlock, Douglas fir, and western red cedar predomi- 

 nate, in the order named. It is accessible along one side, so cutting 

 can begin almost immediately. As a matter of course, cutting will be 

 regulated on the principle of approximate sustained annual yield. The 

 presence of considerable areas of younger age classes contributes to 

 easy introduction of this kind of management. The possible annual 

 cut, estimated to be in excess of 30,000,000 feet, will be of such size 

 as to make an efificient logging operation possible, even under steam 

 logging conditions. The logging will not, however, be carried on by 

 the university, since it is deemed best to sell stumpage instead, at least 

 for the present. In stumpage sales, privileges aimed at giving students 

 practical experience and insight into the operations will be reserved. 



