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owing to the lack of funds, and which are likely to be only 

 approximate. 



Mr. Victor A. Beede, Assistant State Forester of New 

 Hampshire, has been elected Executive Secretary of the Associa- 

 tion, with headquarters at the Chamber of Co nmerce Building, 

 Syracuse, New York. Mr. Beede is a graduate of Yale University, 

 the Yale Forest School. Following his graduation he visited 

 France, Germany and Switzerland and observed the forest practice 

 in those countries. He has served as Forester and Assistant 

 Secretary of the Massachusetts Forestry Association, and as 

 Forest Assistant on the Pike National Forest in Colorado. Mr. 

 Beede will take up his new position on November 1. 



During the past summer the forestry department of Iowa State 

 College took its sophomore students on a three months' study 

 excursion of several thousand miles through the Western forests 

 under guidance of the faculty. For the most time the party 

 camped with its own outfit; the longest camp, of three weeks' 

 duration, being made at Columbia National Forest in Washington* 



Lvimber manufacturers* associations and lumbermen have 

 cooperated cordially with the New York State College of Forestry 

 in supplying wood panels for the rotimda of the College. Panels 

 of the native hard- and softwoods of the home State occupy the 

 central place, the more important commercial woods from the 

 Western States and from foreign countries, for example, such 

 woods as African gaboon. East Indian koa, rosewood, satinwood, 

 camphor wood, teak, Circassian walnut and different kinds of 

 mahogany, being grouped along the walls. Labels with common 

 and scientific names of the woods have not been forgotten. 



The farm woodlots in the United States are said to contain about 

 10 per cent of the standing timber in the coimtry, and the annual 

 value of the products to be over 195 million dollars. 



The selling of lumber in short lengths for odd jobs is gradually 

 becoming established. A company is reported as having been 

 formed at Portland, imder the name of the Miniature Lumber 

 Company, to supply departmental stores with cabinets for the 

 display of such lumber. 



