556 Forestry Quarterly 



The example of the progressive Laurentide Company of Grand 

 Mere is to be followed by the Riordan Paper Company, of Mon- 

 treal, who have decided to commence planting operations on their 

 limits. Doubtless, other companies will follow in their steps before 

 very long, for such a policy will prove profitable in the long run. 

 The Laurentide Company have at present about 2100 acres devoted 

 to planting and experimental operations. The experiments include 

 thinning, natural regeneration, timber growth studies, draining 

 swamps, etc. After cutting operations all slash is piled and burned. 

 Another noteworthy featiire of these plantations is the system of 

 dirt roads and fire lines which is being developed. 



On October 24-27 a joint session of the Western Forestry and 

 Conservation Association and the Pacific Logging Congress will 

 be held at Portland, Oregon, where timber problems, lumber 

 problems and logging problems are to be discussed by experts, 

 with participation of the Department of Commerce, the Federal 

 Trade Commission and the Forest Service. 



The 1916 midsummer meeting of the Pennsylvania Forestry 

 Association, held at Reading, June 27-29, had a splendid attend- 

 ance of enthusiastic people: members of the American Forestry 

 Association, instructors in a mmiber of forestry schools, forestry 

 students from the Pennsylvania State College and from the State 

 Forest Academy at Mont Alto, members of the Berk County Con- 

 servation Association, organized two years ago. The meeting took 

 the usual form of addresses, papers on forestry subjects and an 

 outing to view the municipal tree nursery at Antietam Lake, which 

 is a city reservoir, and contains 30,000 coniferous seedlings for 

 future planting on city property. On the watersheds of Antietam 

 Lake there have been planted 100,000 coniferous and broadleaf 

 trees, the work of planting having been done mostly by pupils of 

 the Girls' High School of Reading, all the coniferous seedlings 

 having been furnished by the State Department of Forestry. 



A new flagstaff has just been erected at Kew Gardens, London, 

 to replace one which had been presented in 1861, but which when 

 attention was directed to it for repairs was found to be rotting at 

 the base, so that it would have been necessary to remove as much 

 as 40 feet from the length. The new flagpole is a gift of the British 



