172 Forestry Quarterly. 



paid, at the end of such year, by the Secretary of the Treasury to 

 the State in which such National Forest is situated, to be expend- 

 ed as the State legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the 

 public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which 

 such National Forest is situated : Provided, That when any 

 National Forest is in more than one State or county the distribu- 

 tive share to each from the proceeds of such forest shall be 

 proportional to its area therein : Provided further, That there 

 shall not be paid to any State for any county an amount equal to 

 more than 40 per cent, of the total income of such county from 

 all other sources. 



Sec. 14. That a sum sufficient to pay the necessary expenses 

 of the commission and its members, not to exceed an annual 

 expenditure of $25,000, is hereby appropriated out of any money 

 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Said appropriation 

 shall be immediately available, and shall be paid out on the audit 

 and order of the president of the said commission, which audit 

 and order shall be conclusive and binding upon all departments 

 as to the correctness of the accounts of said commission. 



The following data on White Pine cones were collected in 

 September, 1907, as a preliminary to seed-bed tests. The cones 

 were gathered in northern Minnesota. Shortly after being picked, 

 they were graded into three sizes and a rounded heaped-bushel 

 measure of each size was then dried in a green-house at sun 

 temperature. The seed was extracted in the ordinary manner by 

 shaking in a box with a screened bottom, and the yield compared 

 with the yield from a bushel of cones as picked from the trees. 



From two and one-half to three bushels of dry cones were in- 

 volved in these determinations. 



YIELD OF WHITE PINE SEED FKOM CONES OF VARIOUS SIZES. 



'Average of two ounces of seed, of each bushel. 



S. B. Detwii^er. 



