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should be marked for removal in cuttings, to reduce the infection, 

 burning the infected brush, and if need be lopping and burning 

 infected parts of younger trees. 



B. E. F. 



Third Annual Conference of the Woods Department, Berlin Mills 

 Company. Berlin, N. H. November, 1915. Pp. 37. 



Contains a short paper with illustrations on the use of kraft 

 paper ; a paper on rot fungi ; one on hardwood estimating, logging, 

 manufacture, grading, concluding with five points to be observed 

 in a successful hardwood operation ; a short paper on the develop- 

 ment of mechanical log haulers ; and one on pulpwood loading and 

 receiving. 



We are still hoping for an account of results in the woods from 

 the application of forestry methods. 



Annual Report of the Director of Forestry of the Philippine 

 Islands for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 1915. By W. F. 

 Sherfesee. Department of the Interior. Manila, P. I. 1916. 

 Pp. 91. 



This report chronicles several changes in Bureau affairs during 

 the year. Among these is an amendment to the forest law, 

 effective July 29, 1915, requiring the manifesting of all timber 

 in the round, due allowance being made for defects. The custom 

 for some years previous was to measure the sawed product and add 

 a recharge of 15 per cent for loss in sawing. This practice was not 

 satisfactory because lumbermen were wasteful and used only the 

 best part of the log. Some opposition developed to the change 

 due both to the added cost per thousand and to an increase in the 

 sum charged for stimipage. Coming at a time of depression in 

 the lumber market, it caused considerable opposition. 



Another law of interest relates to the separation of the Forest 

 School from the College of Agriculture, making the former a sepa- 

 rate institution. 



The year was marked by the formation of the Philippine Manu- 

 factiu-ers' Association, the object of which is to bring the lumber 

 interests into closer touch. 



Provision was made during 1915 for the employment of two gov- 



