News and Notes 653 



statistics show that 5,000 cords are used in Canada for the 

 manufacture of excelsior, employed largely in packing furniture. 



Dominion government forest reserves and parks in the Western 

 provinces total 28,027,424 acres. 



Two prizes of $100 each are offered for two photographs of 

 the largest tree of a nut-bearing variety in the United States — 

 chestnut, oak, walnut, butternut, pecan, etc. — and of the largest 

 broadleaf tree which does not bear edible seeds — elm, maple, tulip, 

 poplar, etc. Photos of cone-bearing trees will not be included. 



These prizes are offered by two members of the American 

 Genetic Association, Messrs. Charles Deering, of Chicago, and 

 W. A. Wadsworth, of Genesco, N. Y. 



The contest closes July 1, 1915. 



It is hoped in this way to find out in what situations and 

 under what conditions trees attain their best growth, and later, 

 perhaps, to secure seeds, cuttings, grafting wood, etc., from the 

 regions where such trees thrive, for purposes of propagation in 

 less favored districts. 



The University of Montana has now a Forest School, a new 

 department opened this session, with Dr. Dorr Skeels, an expert 

 logging engineer of the Forest Service, as Dean. Missoula, in 

 which city both the University and the Federal Forest Service 

 are located, is the center of an important forest region and of a 

 rapidly growing section of the country. 



Mr. W. X. Millar, for the past two years with the Dominion 

 Forestry Branch as Inspector of Forest Reserves in Alberta, has 

 been appointed to an assistant professorship in the Faculty of 

 Forestry, University of Toronto. Previous to his leaving the 

 United States Forest Service, to take charge of the work in 

 Alberta, Mr. Millar was in charge of the Kaniksu National 

 Forest. 



Professor James B. Berry, formerly of Pennsylvania State 

 College, is in charge of the newly established Forest School, of 

 the State College of Agriculture at the University of Georgia, 



