News and Notes 277 



There were some 2 1-4 million acres mapped and estimated and 

 near 7 million acres rapidly cruised. Some 14,000 acres were 

 planted at an average cost of about $9 and 6,400 acres seeded, the 

 sowings of Lodgepole and Yellow pine having been successful 

 in some parts. Some 3,160 pounds of seed were collected at $2 

 per pound on the average and 10,000 pounds were sown. Some 

 9,400,000 trees were planted, and the nurseries contain some 

 31 million plants ; the average cost of producing seedlings was 

 $3.62, of transplants $5.66 per M. 



Fires destroyed some 58 million feet valued at $81,000, besides 

 young growth and forage valued at $109,000; expenditures in 

 fighting fires amounting to $102,000. About $10,000 were spent 

 in fighting Dendrodonus in Yellow pine timber. 



Some 29,000 permits for range were issued, involving 1,600,000 

 cattle and horses, and 7,600,000 sheep and goats, besides colts, 

 calves, lambs and kids; ranging over 100 million acres. 



Some $400,000 were spent on improvements, roads, trails, tele- 

 phone lines, fire lines, lookout stations, bridges, fences, etc. 



Some $100,000 were spent on cooperative fire protection in 

 18 States, the States spending $450,000. 



A large amount of investigative work is being done, but the 

 amounts spent on it are not mentioned. 



The Eastern forest reservations in the Appalachians and White 

 Mountains have now grown to over one million acres approved, 

 but as yet only 190,000 acres have been acquired. 



The Carnegie Steel Company has recently announced their in- 

 tention to erect at Homestead, Pa., a steel tie plant, to cost $500,- 

 000. The new plant will manufacture steel ties and tie special- 

 ties, and is, according to the President of the company, fully jus- 

 tified by the improvement in the steel tie business, which has 

 resulted from the ever increasing scarcity of tie timber. 



Mr. R. M. Watt, of the Duck Mountain Forest Reserve, Mani- 

 toba, makes the following suggestion for putting a wick in a 

 Minnesota brush burning torch. 



"First, remove the small bent pipe forming the lower end of the 

 torch. Secure two one-quarter-pound balls of cotton candle wick- 

 ing and drop the loose end of the wicking through the pipe. 



