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the investigative result that an increased cost of one cent per 

 gallon raised the cost of treated piles one cent per linear foot, 

 it v^^as found that the treating of piles would be economical up 

 to 22 cents per linear foot, a creosote cost of the same amount 

 per gallon. 



Port Orford cedar, though sufficiently light, has been found 

 to be too coarse and brittle for the manufacture of artificial 

 limbs. It was tried as a substitute for English willow. 



The United States Department of Agriculture is to inaugurate 

 a tree distribution system in the Western States. Mr. W. A. 

 Peterson, superintendent of the newly established Field Station 

 at Mandan, N. D., which is to be the distributing center, recently 

 visited the nursery station at Indian Head, Sask., with a view to 

 collecting informaton as to the method of handling the work in 

 Canada. 



The State Board of Forestry of Indiana appointed two arbor 

 days for this year, one in the spring, the other in October, and 

 requested that the many hands of the people of the State make 

 light the labor of planting 1,000,000 trees. The Forestry Board 

 outlined its share of the work by offering to assist people to a 

 knowledge of what species are suited to certain localities, and 

 what care is needful to these trees. 



A railroad company and two individuals have been fined 

 recently for shipping lumber from an area quarantined on account 

 of the gipsy and brown-tail moths. The existence of this quar- 

 antine, under the Plant Quarantine Act of Agust 20, 1912, was 

 given general publicity throughout the quarantined area by send- 

 ing copies of the order to all transportation companies and to 

 individuals, as well as by extensive newspaper advertising. 



On November 9, 1914, an Order-in-Council was promulgated at 

 Ottawa, Canada, viz. : Plant Disease Regulation II, under the 

 Destructive Insect and Pest Act (9-10 Edward VII, Chap. 31), 

 reading : 



"The importation into Canada of the following species of the 



