780 Forestry Quarterly 



Association of Box Manufacturers, to show the strength of boxes 

 of various woods and of different construction. The results of 

 these tests show a decided need for standard classification of box 

 woods. The demonstration machine for testing consists of a 

 horizontal drum with 33^-foot sides, which is lined with thin 

 steel sheets. Pieces of scantling belted to the bottom form what 

 are known as "hazards." The boxes, filled with cans containing 

 water, are placed in the drum, which is then rotated, the hazards 

 causing the boxes to be carried part way around and then dropped 

 back to the lower level in imitation of the probable treatment that 

 would be received in shipment. 



Receipts from the National Forests for the fiscal year 1916 

 reached the highwater mark of approximately $2,820,000, being 

 $341,000 more than for 1915, which exceeded any previous year. 

 There seems to be an increase from all sources of revenue from these 

 Forests, but the largest was $203,000 from timber sales. Grazing 

 fees show a gain of $77,000 and water power development, $12,000, 

 over 1915. 



Apropos of the appropriation of $3,000,000 for continuing land 

 purchases for forestry purposes under the Weeks law, Congress 

 was recently furnished with information to show that various 

 States are cooperating with the government in the expenditure 

 of money for forestry, fire protection, and watershed benefit 

 purposes, with appropriations as follows: Maine, annual, $71,400; 

 New Hampshire, annual, $38,800; Vermont, annual, $19,500; 

 Massachusetts, annual, $83,000; Connecticut, total, $7,500; 

 Rhode Island, $3,000; New York, total, $177,840; New Jersey, 

 total, $43,000; Pennsylvania, total, $315,375; Maryland, total. 

 $10,000; Virginia, total, $5,000; West Virginia, total, $10,000; 

 North Carolina, total, $23,000; Tennessee, total, $3,000; Kentucky, 

 total, $15,000; Alabama, total, $500. 



The Hawaii National Park, just created by Congress, is the 

 first National Park lying outside the continental boimdaries of 

 the United States. Located within its bounds are three Hawaiian 

 volcanoes said to be "truly a national asset, wholly imique of their 

 kind, the most famous in the world of science, and the most con- 

 tinuously, variously and harmlessly active volcanoes of the earth." 



