NEWS AND NOTES. 

 E. A. Sterling, in Charge. 



Since our last number was issued the following increase in the 

 National Forest Reserves is recorded : 



New Reserves : Yuba, California, 524,297 acres, situated 

 between and adjoining the Tahoe and the Plumas Forest Re- 

 serves ; Beaver, Utah, 261,593 acres, north of the Sevier For- 

 est Reserve ; lya Sal, Utah and Colorado, 158,462 acres, west 

 of the Uncompahgre Forest Reserve, Colorado. 



Additions to existi?ig reserves ; Uinta (formerly Uintah), Utah 

 and Wyoming, 428,878 acres, on the north and west ; Sevier, 

 Utah, 353,920 acres, on the east ; Manti, Utah, 193,280 acres, 

 chiefly on the north ; Fish Eake, Utah, 89,760 acres, on the 

 southeast. Making a total addition of 2,010,180 acres. Copies 

 of any of the above proclamations will be furnished by the 

 Forest Service. A diagram or map is included in each proclama- 

 tion. 



Examination of lands for new forest reserves continues especial- 

 ly in the southwest, where several parties are engaged this winter. 



As an additional note to the determination of British Thermal 

 Units in wood, mentioned on page 275, Vol. II, of the Quar- 

 terly, it may be stated that of five samples of heart wood of the 

 common apple the heat units were found to be 9,315.5 per pound 

 of dry matter which is more than that of any one of the four 

 samples of hard maple and next to the highest of the four samples 

 of beech. The one sample of beech showing a larger number of 

 heat units was a heart piece near the stump. This piece showed 

 9,718.5 units. It is further interesting to note that in each of 

 the five, samples of heart and sap apple wood there was no differ- 

 ence between the heat units of the heart and sap wood. The per 



cent of moisture was not determined. 



E. E. Bogue. 



A modest invention, yet of the very highest interest to forest- 

 ers and to paper manufacturers, which has been overlooked, is a 

 machine designed to make the chestnut wood, from which the 

 tannic acid has been extracted, available for paper purposes. The 



