680 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



acres in the Appalachians, the largest purchase of 13,000 acres being 

 made in Alabama. 



A new project has been undertaken by the Fort X'alley Experi- 

 ment Station, known as the study of forest types, the aim of which 

 is to determine the site factors limiting the distribution of tree species 

 as well as those controlling reproduction and development within a 

 given forest type. It will aim to solve fundamental problems and 

 especial attention will be paid to the factors influencing the reproduc- 

 tion of western yellow pine. The project will include the study of 

 types from the desert to timber line on the San Francisco Mountains, 

 elevation 12,611 feet. In all, about eight stations will be established. 



A series of illustrated talks has been arranged to be given by 

 forest officers of the Southwestern District next winter at the 

 Northern Arizona Normal School at Flagstaff. These talks will be 

 given in connection with a course already inaugurated there on con- 

 servation of natural resources. 



According to Bulletin No. 519 of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, a very complete canvass develops the fact that over 4 million 

 telegraph and telephone poles were purchased in 1915, 25 per cent 

 above the figures for 1907, and 16 per cent above that for 1911. Cedar 

 furnishes still by far the largest number, namely, over 2>^ million, 

 with chestnut, pine, oak, cypress, and all other in sequence. The in- 

 crease in pole consumption is due to railroad and power development, 

 while telegraph and telephone companies used 30 per cent less poles 

 than in 1911. Preservative processes are being used more and more 

 by brush or open-tank treatment, creosote oil (11 pounds to the cubic 

 feet) being the most frequently used. 



The newsprint paper situation, which has become acute in the 

 United States, where it has led to a number of indictments of manu- 

 facturers charged with constraining the trade and infringing the Sher- 

 man anti-trust law, has assumed a similar development in Canada by 

 the appointment of a commissioner, who is to investigate the situation, 

 and especially the cost of production, prices, etc. At present, the Cana- 

 dian manufacturers have a voluntary agreement with the Canadian 

 consumers to furnish newsprint paper at a set price at mills, which, 

 of course, does not have any bearing on export prices. 



