News and Notes 133 



White pine and Yellow pine are the woods most used for boxes, 

 and each contributes more than a billion feet to the box industry 

 annually in the United States. 



A news note from the Forest Service, referring to the wide- 

 spread use of fuel wood in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, points out 

 that the fuel value of wood generally is in proportion to its 

 specific weight; that makes also slow-growing woods have a 

 greater fuel value than rapidly-growing. A ton of coal is equal 

 to a cord and a half to two cords of wood in fuel value. 



For quick, intense heat, sagebrush is most serviceable ; it can 

 be grown in regular crops of coppice, and can be handled for a 

 given amount of cooking as cheaply as oak in the East. 



The United States Forest Service has recently adopted the 

 policy of sending out to forest schools brief reports of the results 

 of its forest investigations in advance of publication, or when 

 information is not of such character as to warrant the expense 

 of special publication. Some very interesting and instructive 

 information is thus distributed, and in view of the enormous 

 facilities at the command of the Forest Service for investigations, 

 it may be anticipated that many important discoveries will be 

 made. The Service has also very kindly extended the same 

 facilities to such Canadian forest schools as care to avail them- 

 selves of this service. 



The arboretum established at Washington in Rock Creek Park, 

 through cooperation between the Forest Service and the District 

 of Columbia, now contains 1,200 trees, comprising 92 different 

 species. 



The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests has 

 begun the publication of a four-page sheet of propagandist char- 

 acter under the title. New Hampshire Forests. It concerns itself 

 entirely with the forestry interest of the State. The second 

 number contains a brief statement of what the Society has done. 

 It consists of six items, namely: bringing about the Weeks law 

 for a national forest in the White Mountains; securing a State 

 forest of 6,000 acres in the Crawford Notch; securing effective 

 organization for fire protection; securing a State nursery; main- 



