222 Forestry Quarterly. 



As a building material hemlock had not yet come into general 

 use. While grades have changed so that direct comparisons are 

 impossible, an idea of the change can be had, from the price lists 

 on cargo lots in the same trade paper, which runs from $12.50 

 for the lowest culls to $54 for the best 2-inch cuts. 



The growing interest of Southern pine manufacturers and 

 stumpage holders in forest conservation and forest education is 

 strikingly exhibited in the coming meeting of the Forest Con- 

 servation Committee of the Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation that was to be held on May 10 and 11 in the camp of the 

 Yale Forest School, in Tyler county, Texas. This committee is 

 composed of J. Lewis Thompson, President Thompson-Tucker 

 Lumber Company, Houston, Texas ; J. B. White, Manager Mis- 

 souri Lumber and Land Exchange Co., Kansas City, Mo. ; John 

 L. Kaul, Kaul Lumber Company, Birmingham, Ala. ; J. A. Free- 

 man, Freeman Lumber Company, St. Louis, Mo.; and P. S. 

 Gardiner, Eastman-Gardiner Co., Laurel, Miss. The object of 

 the meeting is to discuss means for furthering the conservation 

 of the yellow pine forests of the South and the prominence of the 

 men who are to be present insures a very successful meeting, and 

 the action taken by this committee will have much weight with 

 the stumpage holders of yellow pine. 



Mr. S. S. Sadler, who will graduate from the Forestry De- 

 partment of Pennsylvania State College in June, has been ap- 

 pointed Forest Assistant with the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 

 pany, to take charge of the Forest Nursery at Morrisville, Pa. 

 The position which Mr. Sadler is called upon to fill will event- 

 ually include, in addition to the nursery work, the field planting 

 operations and landscape gardening along the right-of-way. 



The English steamship "Balakani," discharged a cargo of 

 1,030,000 gallons of German creosote oil at Philadelphia, April 

 30 and May 1st. This oil is for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 

 pany, and is the first steamer cargo of creosote to be brought 

 into Philadelphia ; it is also the first large shipment for the use 

 of an eastern railroad company in the preservation of their 

 timber. 



The office of the Superintendent for Suppressing the Gypsy 

 and Brown-tail Moths has, by an Act of the Legislature, been 

 combined with the office of the State Forester, who thereby 

 secures the handsome salary of $5,000. 



