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companies, and brush disposal is an important provision of each 

 timber sale contract. Specific information is being collected by 

 the Forest Branch as to the cost of brush disposal, but it is too 

 early as yet to make definite annoimcement of the results. 



The Massachusetts Forestry Association oflfers prizes for the 

 revival of tree planting in the State, the prize to go to the town 

 or city which properly plants this spring the greatest number of 

 shade trees on its streets in proportion to its population. The 

 prize is a novel one, consisting of the planting of one mile of 

 street or road or an equivalent, by the Association, in the pre- 

 cincts of the winner. 



Under the auspices of the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association a Forest Products Exposition will be held in Chicago 

 April 30 to May 9, 1914, when the exhibits will be moved to 

 New York and be displayed May 21 to May 30. 



Merritt Berry Pratt, deputy supervisor of the Tahoe National 

 Forest, has been appointed assistant professor of Forestry in 

 the University of California, in the new department of forestry 

 to open next autumn. 



Frederick E. Olmsted announces the removal of his office 

 from 21 Lyime Street, Boston, to 255 California Street, San Fran- 

 cisco, where he will continue work as a consulting forester. 



