U4 Forestry Quarterly 



mental cylinder a fully-equipped laboratory will be installed for 

 testing oils and studying the character of impregnation. 



After neglecting her forests for hundreds of years, Great 

 Britain has come to the front with the most far-sighted pro- 

 posal for forest work and land improvement ever advanced by 

 any nation in a single plan. 



The recommendations just made to the British Government 

 by the Royal Commission on Afforestation and Coast Erosion will 

 make England self-supporting in the production of timber if suc- 

 cessfully carried out. 



The report embraces two separate proposals, involving the 

 afforestation in one case of 9,000,000 and in the other of 6,000,000 

 acres. The former proposal calls for the forest planting of 

 150,000 acres a year for sixty years at an annual cost of $450,000 

 at the beginning, to over $15,000,000 at the end of the period. 

 After the fortieth year, however, the forest would become self- 

 supporting. After eighty years the forest would have a value of 

 $2,810,000,000, which is $535,000,000 in excess of the cost of 

 producing it, and would yield a net annual revenue of $87,500,000 

 or $9.73 per acre from land now barely producing 50 cents per 

 acre. While these estimated returns are more than half again 

 as much as the highly developed forests of Saxony yield, it is 

 considerably less than the net revenue from the historic town 

 forest of Zurich, Switzerland, the Sihlwald. In volume, the an- 

 nual estimated wood production would exceed the present annual 

 wood imports to England by 500,000 "loads." 



An evidence of the enlightened administration of Santo Do- 

 mingo's affairs which is being given by the Americans in charge 

 of her customs lies in the application received by the Forest 

 Service for a study of forest conditions on the island, with the 

 idea of formulating a forest policy for it. 



Mr. J. T. Bond, who had been an assistant forester with the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad since he left the Forest Service, accepted 

 on February 1 a position with the Wisconsin Lumber Company, 

 at Deering, Mo. 



Professor Austin F. Hawes has been appointed state forester 

 for Vermont. Professor Hawes after graduating: from Yale 



