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Annual Report Upon State Forest Administration in South 

 Australia for the Year Ended June jo, i^i}. By \V. Gill. 

 Woods and Forests Department of South Australia. Adelaide. 

 1915. Pp. 11 ; pis. 14. 



The report is taken up principally with statistical information 

 regarding the forest reserves (42 in number, comprising 154,- 

 232^ acres) and their administration. 



During the year, 8,537 acres were "let on perpetual lease, and 

 on agreement with covenant to purchase . . . ceased to be 

 forest lands," A portion of the reserves to the amount of 

 19,224^ acres are listed as "areas enclosed for planting and 

 natural regeneration," of which 1,144^ acres were placed in this 

 class during the last year. The number of trees planted was 

 640,278 (stocking 110 acres — evidently wide spaced) and 94^ 

 per cent di them were alive at the end of the year. From the 

 seven state nurseries, 231,595 trees were given away to 1,525 

 recipients. Free distribution of trees has been the custom for 

 thirty-two years. 



Annual expenditures, including certain items not directly con- 

 nected with the reserves, amounted to £25,637 14:S. Sd., while 

 receipts were only £6,864 15s. lOd. The forest reserves still 

 show an annual deficit. 



R. C. H. 



Service Tests of Treated and Untreated Telephone Poles. By 

 C. H. Teesdale. Reprint from Telephony, April 3, 1915. Pp. 4. 



Gives the results of a series of experiments conducted by the 

 U. S. Forest Service in cooperation with the American Telegraph 

 and Telephone Company to obtain data on efficiency of various 

 preservatives and methods of treatment. The experiments are 

 described in Circular 104 and Forest Service Bulletin 84. The 

 first inspections are reported in this bulletin and Circular 198. 

 Subsequent inspections are reported in this article. 



Of the untreated poles those set green gave longer service than 

 the seasoned; those set in crushed stone or charred at the butt 

 showed less decay at the ground line than those set untreated in 

 sand. There was less decay in swamps and wet places than in 



