News and Notes 775 



Recent appointments to the Office of Investigations in Forest 

 Pathology, Bureau of Plant Industry, are as follows: Samuel B. 

 Detwiler, formerly field superintendent of the Pennsylvania 

 Chestnut Tree Blight Commission, to be forest inspector in charge 

 of field work on the White pine blister rust; Reginald H. Colley, 

 lately assistant professor of Botany in Dartmouth College, and 

 Minnie W. Taylor, lately assistant in Botany in Brown Uni- 

 versity, to be agents to assist Dr. Perley Spaulding in research 

 work on the White pine blister rust. Mr. Detwiler is to have four 

 assistants. Also about 40 field agents have been appointed for 

 temporary periods of work on the blister rust. The field work 

 east of Ohio is organized under the general direction of Mr. Det- 

 wiler; west of, and including Ohio, under Mr. R. G. Pierce. 



Mr. S. O. Huckins,^ of Mountain View, New Hampshire, who 

 for many years has successfully operated small woodlots under 

 conservative methods until now his operations extend to around 

 10,000 acres with three mills and 100 men, participated in the 

 Forest Conference of the Society for the Protection of New 

 Hampshire Forests, and has kindly furnished the following 

 statement regarding his work : 



"At the recent forestry meeting held at Crawford House, ^ the 

 writer was impressed by a group of comparatively young men who 

 were present and taking an active part in the sessions. They 

 were filled with sufficient enthusiasm, ability, and energy to solve 

 any problem. I was also disappointed by the entire absence at 

 that meeting of the many strong men who direct the harvesting 

 of New Hampshire's forest products, for without their coopera- 

 tion improved methods will come slowly. I feel like saying to 

 those gentlemen, let us join hands with those men who are doing 

 pioneer work in forest conservation, and do our work by rule and 

 line. By so doing, you can erect a montmient, studding each 

 hill, mountain, and valley, and every sparkling brook and crystal 

 lake, that will challenge the approval of the present generation 

 and receive a fervent blessing from those to follow. The papers 

 read, lectures delivered, and rapid fire catechisms simply serve 



* Mr. Huckins has shown his public spirit by donating for demonstration 

 purposes a 100-acre tract of cut-over sand-plain land to the State of New 

 Hamshire, on which plantations of White, Red and Scotch pine have been, 

 started in various ways. 



^Conference of Soc. for Prot, of N. H. Forests. 



