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as three in 1885, 15 in 1895, and, skipping to the present time. 

 117 in 1913. 



In Great Britain and many European countries today practically 

 every wooden crosstie and telephone or telegraph pole receives 

 preservative treatment; while in the United States less than 30 

 per cent of the 133 million crossties annually consumed are treat- 

 ed, and the proper treatment of an annual consumption of 4 mil- 

 lion poles may be said to have scarely commenced. Nevertheless, 

 the impregnation of wood, with oils and chemicals to increase its 

 resistance to decay and insect attack, is becoming an important in- 

 dustry, and the report states that the most notable progress yet 

 recorded was made last year. 



In southern Nigeria, on the west coast of Africa, the British 

 government has done much to encourage the practice of forestry, 

 eight hundred villages now have communal plantations of rubber 

 trees. The natives supply the labor, the native chiefs the land, 

 and the Forestry Department the seeds, technical knowledge and 

 tapping appliances, the profits being divided equally among the 

 three co-operating parties. 



A Vancouver lumberman has estimated that "one ton of refuse 

 goes to the burners for every M feet of lumber cut." In his own 

 saw-mill he has eliminated this waste by breaking up the refuse 

 into small pieces which are manufactured into fuel briquettes at 

 a cost of only $3 per ton. 



In this connection it has also been learned that a large lumber 

 company in British Columbia is erecting a $50,000 plant, which 

 will have a daily output of about 30 tons of such briquettes, which 

 will sell for about $5 a ton at the mill. 



Manufacturers have found that Red Alder from the Pacific 

 coast makes a white, smooth, springy clothespin. As a result of 

 this fact, a clothespin factory, said to be the first on the Pacific 

 coast, may be established at Portland, Ore. 



Zentaro Kawase, professor of Forestry at the Imperial Uni- 

 versity of Tokio, Japan, has been making a tour of the national 



