348 Forestry Quarterly. 



ings. The exhibits of Germany and German East Africa receive 

 their due share of attention, while the exhibits made by Japan are 

 detailed to great length, as is fit. Among the impressions left in the 

 memory of a hurried visitor, that of the Japanese forestry exhibit 

 stands high. As from few others, a definite picture of J 'p-inese 

 forestry practices, progress, aims and accomplishments came from 

 a study of the exhibit made. 



The criticism of the exhibit of the United States Government 

 which Riebel makes, and especially of those of the various States, 

 is of most interest and value to us. To anyone familiar with forest 

 conditions in this country the display of forest products to the 

 exclusion of nearly everything else would give the impression that 

 this was a country producing timber far in excess of home needs, 

 and expected to continue to do so. The sharp competition which 

 led each State in its display to call attention to its productions has 

 been wrongly interpreted by one who, with a wider view, has over- 

 looked that this was an opportunity for each region to place its 

 products before the public in their best light. The St. Louis Fair 

 was a World's Fair, but the visitors were overwhelmingly American. 



For the Federal exhibit it is enough to point out that in America 

 we have had a struggle to compel the association of forestry with 

 lumbering, and the St. Louis Fair bore eloquent witness to the suc- 

 cess of this effort. Our next step will be in the direction the Ger- 

 mans indicate when they say that by charts and statistical material 

 showing the exhaustion of supplies and by showing the profit in 

 forestry as an investment the extension and care of our forests could 

 be best brought home to our people. 



Forstwirtschaft, Jagd und Fischerei auf der Weltausstellung zu 

 St. Louis. Zeitscrift fiir Forst- und Jagdwesen. April, May, 1906. 

 PP. 217-237, 387-314. 



The installation of telephone service in the 



Telephones National forest reservations, where there 



in is necessarily much isolation, is counted on 



Forest Reserves. not only to prove of great convenience to 



those engaged in the administration of these 



tracts, but also to save many thousands of dollars and perhaps 



even many lives. The advantages of the telephone in securing aid 



for fighting forest fires are described by Mr. Bristow, pointing 



