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tion in spite of its evident adaptability to untoward conditions. 

 Tn New Zealand, as well as in South Australia, in the semi- 

 arid country, plantations of this pine have been made 30 to 40 

 years ago, which furnish now considerable material for fruit 

 boxes especially, making 75 to 100 M board feet of inferior 

 stuff in 30 years. An individual tree is reported as containing 

 6,000 feet at 46 years of age, rivaling the Eucalypts. The 

 character of the material is, to be sure, inferior. 



The forestry division of the geological and economic survey 

 of North Carolina issues separate reports of the forest resources 

 cf each county in the State, each report being a concise state- 

 ment occupying less than four printed pages. It is intended by 

 the survey that these reports of individual counties may be 

 reprinted by the local newspapers, because in that way the 

 specific local information will be given to the people in the 

 cheapest and most direct way. 



The Chinese national conservation bureau is considering re- 

 forestation at the headwaters of the Yellow River. The Govern- 

 ment report shows that this will ameliorate the torrents and 

 cause a more regular flow from the now denuded uplands. It 

 is acknowledged, however, that this reforestation may not have 

 an appreciable effect within the life-time of the present gen- 

 eration 



The imports of matches into China greatly exceed in value 

 any other wood product. Most of the matches come in from 

 Japan. 



A novel course is to be instituted at Harvard University next 

 session, the Graduate School of Business Administration and 

 the Forestry School co-operating. Ostensibly this course is in- 

 stituted to furnish "scientific knowledge of the business of manu- 

 facturing and marketing lumber," with the expectation that im- 

 provements may be introduced by which loss under present 

 methods may be turned into profits. Mr. John M. Gries, of 

 the United States Bureau of Corporations, who made the in- 

 vestigation into the timber trust, is to carry on this course. 

 This course is to cover two years, and is made up of a combina- 



