News and Notes, 505 



Forest in North Carolina, from the George W. Vanderbilt estate. 

 These tracts bring the total eastern forests up to 1,077,000 acres. 



The Massachusetts Forestry Association is energetically work- 

 ing for visible progress. In addition to the contest noted in the 

 first issue of this volume of the Quarterly, the Association this 

 year announces a contest to encourage reforestation by the estab- 

 lishment of "town forests." The prize is to be 50 acres planted 

 to three-year-old White pine transplants, 1200 to the acre. 



There are over 40 different log rules now m use in the United 

 States and Canada, showing a variation of over 50 per cent in the 

 amount of lumber they ascribe to a log of any given size. Prob- 

 ably the best rule yet formulated is the International log rule 

 prepared by Dr. J. F. Clark (F. Q., vol. IV, p. 92), when Chief 

 Forester for Ontario. 



So far as stumpage dues are concerned, it is safe to say that 

 very often the lumbermen pay for only half the merchantable 

 lumber the average log really contains. It is possible that when a 

 bonus is paid by lumbermen in addition to stumpage dues this 

 makes up for the loss in scaling. It is significant that when the 

 British Columbia government recently decided to increase the 

 royalty paid on timber cut in the interior of the province, it stipu- 

 lated that the B. C. log rule should henceforth be used in that 

 region instead of the Doyle rule, thus increasing by 45 per cent 

 the amount of estimated lumber in the logs cut. 



The only final remedy would seem to be the adoption of a gen- 

 eral rule such as the International, or, better still, the substitu- 

 tion of cubic measurement of logs, a practice which has long been 

 in operation in Europe where high lumber prices make accuracy 

 not only desirable but necessary. 



The American Wood Preservers Association in co-operation 

 with the U. S. Forest Service recently issued a report on wood 

 preservation. 



1832 is the date given for the introduction into this country of 

 the Kyanizing process. This was followed a few years later by 

 the Burnett and the Bethel processes. All three processes, are 

 largely in use today. 



The report gives the progress in number of pressure plants 



