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The ignorance of the costs entering into the price of kimber; 

 and 



Whereas, These questions and many others affect the extent 

 to which the timber supply of the country can be economically 

 and properly utilized; now therefore be it 



Resolved, That we urge our members and others interested in 

 the industry to assist the accredited representatives of the Forest 

 Service in its investigations, so that the true conditions of our 

 industry may be better understood, and that our relation to the 

 general public as a problem in national economics may be fully 

 realized. 



As a result of war conditions, the United States Forest Service 

 is arranging to send a trial shipment of matchwood to Brazil, a 

 country which formerly was supplied with aspen from Russia. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture announces that it has 

 under consideration the prohibition of the importation of all 

 European pine, owing to the possibility that these pines are the 

 source of the pine-shoot moth. Certain pines of Europe and 

 Asia are already excluded on account of the danger of the intro- 

 duction of the pine blister rust. 



An Order in Council has been passed by the Dominion Govern- 

 ment prohibiting the importation into Canada of all "forest plant 

 products, including logs, tan bark, posts, poles, ties, cordwood and 

 lumber, originating from any one of the States of Maine, Massa- 

 chusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, unless 

 accompanied by a certificate showing that they have been in- 

 spected by the U. S. Department of Agriculture and found free 

 from gypsy moth." The passing of this Order was made neces- 

 sary because of the discovery of the moth in shipments of forest 

 products, even pulpwood, received from the United States. 



The Assistant Superintendent of Forestry of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway has received from the Chief Engineer of the 

 Chicago and Alton Railroad Company the following informa- 

 tion regarding concrete ties : 



"There were 60 concrete ties placed in the track in October, 

 1903. They were ballasted with stone, where they had good 

 drainage and were kept in good surface. In 1906, 12 concrete 

 ties were taken out; in 1911, 32; in 1912, 10, and in 1913, 6. 



