68 Forestry Quarterly 



of salient points from Dr. Fernow's " Stumpage in Relation to 

 lyumber Prices." 



From the forester's standpoint, the July 15th number is the 

 best of the year. " Trans- Pacific Rafting" and " Sawmilling 

 in the Philippines" are of prime forestal importance. This 

 trans- Pacific raft will probably be built in the Columbia River 

 and will be the largest of its kind ever made, containing ten 

 million board feet of logs — the present record for coast- going 

 rafts is eight million board feet. In case this shipment to the 

 Orient is a success, it will be followed by numerous other assign- 

 ments of a similar nature, and a new epoch in timber transporta- 

 tion will be at hand. Handling lumber in similar rafts has been 

 a failure. 



' ' lyumbering in the Philippines ' ' by Victor Clarke discusses 

 fully the timber supply over the islands and the labor problem 

 both as to natives and as to whites. Mr. Clarke advocates the 

 use of native labor, except as superintendents of operations. 



" Deforestation and Climate " in the November ist edition is 

 the title of a short extract from the German, very general in 

 its nature, mentioning the countries wherein the greatest cli- 

 matic changes have resulted after deforestation and counselling 

 the application of the best treatment to all remaining woodlands. 

 The same issue contains an article on the need of ' ' Tree Plant- 

 ing, Especially by Railroads, ' ' in which there is an extract from 

 an article by William E. Curtis in the Chicago Record- Herald. 

 It is interesting to note that the estimate of the number of cross 

 ties in use is placed at 620,000,000 with a requirement of stripping 

 200,000 acres of timber each year to supply replacements and ex- 

 tensions. In the building and maintenance of the Pennsylvania 

 Lines, labor consumes about fifty per cent of the entire cost, 

 ties about fourteen, rails seven, ballast three, and road-bed 

 twenty- four per cent. 



The American Lumberman has several articles of decided 

 merit. In the August 12th issue is an article by Dr. Schenck 

 on ' ' Utilitarian Forestry' ' as applied at Biltmore, North Caro- 

 lina, which recounts very fully the work done \>y Dr. Schenck 

 for the Vanderbilt estate at that place. 



The August 19th issue has a long article on " The Manufac. 

 ture and Distribution of the Hardwoods in Michigan." Some 



