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Mr. MacMillan evidently approves of the educational efforts of this 

 department and properly criticizes the propaganda work in Great Brit- 

 ain as attempting too complicated and ambitious schemes, which have 

 frightened governments, land-owners, and tax-payers, and have earned 

 more opponents than friends for forest planting. 



State Forestry in Ireland. Canadian Forestry Journal, June, 1917, pp. 1168- 

 1172. 



E. A. Smythies analyzes the requirements of 



Conifer India in the way of coniferous wood, which could 



Supplies be supplied by development in the Himalayas. 



in India In spite of over one million acres of coniferous 



forest, such supplies have hitherto been imported 



from foreign countries to the extent of over 30,000 tons in 191 3-14, 



mostly from the United States. The enormous drop in imports for the 



first war year to less than 6,000 tons has created a real timber famine, 



which threatens to increase and arrest the industrial development that 



had only lately begun. 



Discussing the various uses of coniferous material in India, the au- 

 thor comes to the conclusion that pine timber is most needed, with 

 spruce and fir secondarily. 



Inaccessibility and lack of means of land transportation have pre- 

 vented the development of Himalayan woods for the rosin industry. 

 Experiments are being made to float resin produce in tin cans. 



To develop the conifer forests there are needed capital, trained men 

 for administration, and experts to find new uses. 



Forest planting of bare hillsides is also advocated and conversion of 

 the valueless oak forest — first, experimentally, and, when the develop- 

 ment of the native conifer forests furnishes the needed income, work- 

 ing on an enlarged scale. 



Possibilities of Development in the Himalayan Coniferous Forests. Indian 

 Forester, April, 1917, pp. 165-172. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



R. S. Pearson, of the Indian Forest Service, 



Commercialising after illustrating the technical and commercial 



Indian sides of Indian Forestry, advocates the employ- 



Forestry ment of business men to handle the commercial 



side of the forest business, leaving the purely 



technical work to the forest school-trained men. He feels that it would 



