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ments gave only negative resvilts and the conclusion is that over- 

 wintering occurs rarely, if at all, and only under very exceptional 

 conditions. The chances of such occurrence are considered so 

 small that it is unnecessary to quarantine currants affected with 

 felt rust. The only precaution which needs to be taken is to see 

 that affected plants are leafless at the time of shipping. 



The repeated outbreaks of the disease were explained by the 

 discovery, finally, of two white pines affected with blister-rust. 



S. J. R. 



Amounts and Kinds of Wood Used in the Manufacture of Boxes 

 in the United States. By J. C. Nallis. The National Association 

 of Box Manufacttirers in co-operation with the U. S. Forest 

 Service. Washington, D. C. 1914. Pp. 14. 



The manufacture of packing boxes and shooks, crates, crating, 

 fruit and vegetable packages and baskets is the second largest 

 wood-using industry of the country, consuming annually 4,547,973 

 M feet of limiber of which 69% is softwood. Practically all of the 

 wood used for boxes is the product of the sawmill, comprising 11. 6% 

 of the limiber cut of the year 1912. 



Statistics are given for the first time showing how much of each 

 kind of wood is used in the box industry and the amount consimied 

 by box makers in each of the important regions and states. 

 Virginia ranks first in consimiption, using approximately 433 

 million feet; New York is second, using 390 million feet; Illinois 

 is third, using 389 million. Nearly three-fourths of all the boxes, 

 shooks, crates, crating, etc., are manufactured in the region east 

 of the Mississippi River and north of Tennessee and North 

 Carolina. Some of the woods used in the greatest quantity in the 

 order of importance are White pine (1131 million feet), Yellow 

 pine (1042 million feet). Red gum (401 miUion feet), spruce (336 

 million feet). Western Yellow pine (289 million feet), cottonwood 

 (210 million feet), hemlock (203 million feet). Yellow poplar (165 

 million feet). A large number of species are used in quantities 

 less than 100 million feet. 



Increase of Revenue from Forests as a Result of Their Drainage. 



In the Report of the Russian Department of Public Domains 

 for 1912 are given figures of the increase in revenue from forests of 



