648 Forestry Quarterly 



The Philippine Bureau of Forestry was to make their first 

 shipment of material for exhibition at the Panama-Pacific Inter- 

 national Exposition to be held at San Francisco by October 15. 

 Their building at the Exposition is to be finished entirely in 

 Philippine woods. Species so foreign to Americans will arouse 

 interest. Representatives of the Bureau, competent to give 

 information on all branches of forestry and lumbering, will be 

 in charge, and the hope has been expressed that the result, for 

 the Islands, will be an increased export trade in the commer- 

 cial woods. Primitive and modern logging, by means of moving 

 pictures, will also be a feature of the exhibition. 



Distribution of seed of native trees has been begun in the 

 Philippine Islands by the Bureau of Forestry. The Bureau of 

 Education is co-operating and the Bureau of Public Works will 

 utilize all trees that can be spared for planting along roads. The 

 species found by experiment to thrive under adverse conditions 

 and at the same time to be valuable for market are : Teak, Molave, 

 Narra, Lumbang, Lanutan and Tuai. 



Guijo, a Philippine wood, is being investigated by the Forest 

 Service to determine its possible use in decking boats and ships. 

 Hitherto the navy department has used mostly of the domestic 

 woods, Longleaf pine, Sugar maple and beech. 



This brings to mind the fact that the first known forest reser- 

 vations in this country were made for naval material. 



Mr. Ngan Han, Chief of the Forestry Division of China, visited 

 the Phihppine Islands for several months for the purpose of 

 studying Bureau methods, investigating both field and office work 

 thoroughly. 



Mr. Ngan Han is a graduate in forestry from the University 

 of Michigan. 



Settlers in Western Kansas are cutting and marketing soap 

 weed, or Spanish bayonet {Yucca hacata), to supply the demands 

 of soap manufacturers, the tops and roots being the parts of 

 value. Though its qualities have long been known, the harvesting 

 of soap weed is just now becoming commercially important. 



