NEWS AND NOTES. 



The timber owners of the State of California have organized 

 themselves into a Forest Protective Association, with Thomas B. 

 Walker of Minneapolis, the well-known lumberman, as president, 

 he being the largest timberland holder in the State. He is re- 

 ported in the American Lumberman as expressing his attitude 

 in the following words: "I hold this timber because the laws of 

 the country make it possible for me to acquire it, and because in a 

 sense it was offered to me by my government. It has increased 

 in value because of the work that other men have done in this 

 growing country of ours and under the guardianship of our laws. 

 I feel that it is mine, but mine to use for the public welfare. 

 Therefore I have no right to handle it recklessly, to destroy it, to 

 leave a waste where there is now a forest, beneficent in its influ- 

 ence; but I must use it so as to perpetuate it and to continue the 

 benefits which it confers upon the regions in which it stands. I 

 feel secure not only in title but in reward for administering this 

 property, but, after all, I hold it only as a trustee." 



During the season of 1908, the Forestry Department of the 

 Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, Ontario, sent out to 

 farmers, for waste land planting, 400,000 trees, chiefly White 

 Pine, Scotch Pine, Jack Pine, and Black Locust. In addition, 

 collections of small forest trees were supplied to the public schools 

 as an educative factor. 



Statistics of Canada's trade in wood products for the fiscal year 

 ending March 31, 1909, give: Exports of unmanufactured pro- 

 ducts to Great Britain, $10,024,123 ; to United States, $26,377,715 ; 

 exports of manufactured products to Great Britain, $1,481,750; 

 to United States, $3,217,331 ; imports from United States, $8,- 

 306,360. 



At the request of the State, the United States Forest Service 

 has undertaken a detailed forest survey of Mississippi with a 

 view to the adoption of legislation providing for protection, con- 



