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telegraph poles were sawed off at the ground. Upon recent ex- 

 amination the butts left in the ground in the salt desert have 

 been found, although 50 years have passed since the poles were 

 cut off, to be perfectly sound. 



Experts in the U. S. Forest Service who have been investi- 

 gating the preservative treatment of timber offer the suggestion 

 that ties and poles which have been immersed for some time 

 in the waters of the lake, which, being so much saltier than that 

 of the ocean, is practically a saturate solution, ought to be im- 

 pervious to decay if the salt is not leached out by the action of 

 the elements. It has been suggested that this can be guarded 

 against by painting the butt of the pole with a coat of creosote, 

 which will keep out the moisture and keep in the salt. 



California State inspectors at San Francisco have found a 

 new canker disease on chestnut trees recently imported from 

 Japan. According to Dr. Haven Metcalf, the government's ex- 

 pert on such diseases, this appears to be of the same type as 

 the chestnut blight which is ravaging the forests of the eastern 

 United States, and it is possible that the new disease would be 

 equally as destructive if it became established in this country. 



At the polls next November the people of Minnesota are to 

 vote on an amendment to the constitution for the establishment 

 of State Forests. The State Forestry Association started the 

 campaign for this object at its 38th annual meeting at St. Paul 

 on March 24. 



It is pointed out that Minnesota has 15 million acres of non- 

 agricultural soil which should come under forest management. 



Nearly 4,000 acres were reforested by the Forest Service in 

 Montana and northern Idaho during 1913, at an average cost 

 of $7.50 an acre. 



The U. S. Forest Service issues a note on the use of the Mon- 

 terey Pine in New Zealand. The writer of the note refers to 

 the name used, "Remarkable Pine," as given by the New Zea- 

 landers on account of its rapid growth, without realizing that this 

 is simply the translation of its species name insignis! 



The tree is remarkable, indeed, by its small range of distribu- 



