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The State Forestation Commission of Nebraska, inaugurated in 

 1913 to consider the practicability of reforesting the sand hills region, 

 has drafted four bills for legislative action, one creating a permanent 

 Forestry Commission; one for relocation of school lands on National 

 Forests for the purpose of consolidation ; and two having in view the 

 establishment of municipal forests. The proposition of the Forest 

 Service to abandon parts of the Federal reserves in the sand hills has 

 been given up and appropriations for the extension of the planting 

 up of these hills were secured through the efforts of the commission. 



The summer meeting of the Association of Eastern Foresters will 

 be held on July 11 to 13 as the guests of the Delaware and Hudson 

 Railroad on its properties near Plattsburg, N. Y. The tentative pro- 

 gram includes an inspection of the plantations of the D. & H. Railroad, 

 a visit to Dannemora Prison, Plattsburg Training Camp, and to the 

 Bluff Point Railroad nursery. 



For the first time since 1904 the Yale Forest School will omit its 

 usual summer camp at Milford, Pa., owing to war-time conditions. 



An interesting comparison between State and casualty insurance 

 for workmen has been made by the Oregon Industrial Accident Com- 

 mission. Under the workmen's compensation laws of Oregon, Wash- 

 ington, and Nevada, injured workmen receive 90.8 per cent of the 

 expenditures, while in States where insurance is carried by private 

 companies the injured receive only 46.1 per cent. As a further illus- 

 tration of the benefits of State insurance, the decisions of the Oregon 

 Supreme Court show that there was a decrease of 64 per cent in the 

 number of personal injury cases where the relation of employer and 

 employe existed, according to the commission. 



The Department of Forestry at Cornell University has continued 

 its experiments in the preservative treatment of fence posts which 

 were begun last year. The experiments aim to secure definite informa- 

 tion on the actual increase in the life of fence posts due to treating 

 them in three simple ways. The experiment is confined to posts of 

 native timber and especially those which have not been used for fence 

 posts in the past because of their poor lasting qualities. The following 

 woods are used in the experiment: Hemlock, beech, red oak, white 



