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and day; the changing to oil burners of all engines operated 

 through timber districts; the application of steam to all ashes 

 dumped from engines and the prohibition of ash dumping while 

 trains are in motion ; the including in the curriculum of public 

 schools of western states a course of instruction in forest pro- 

 tection ; the use of troops as auxiliary fire fighters ; and the ap- 

 propriation by the forested counties of the Pacific Coast States of 

 the necessary moneys to enable them to carry their share of the 

 expenditure and effort required in maintaining fire patrols and 

 fire fighting forces. 



The Bureau of Entomology co-operating with the Forest Ser- 

 vice and with organization of private owners is attempting to con- 

 trol the depredations of insects on the forests in the Northwest 

 Four parties in charge of experts have been in the field during the 

 past season working out methods and giving instruction and dem- 

 onstrations. 



The Governor of Pennsylvania has invited the chestnut-grow- 

 ing-states to participate in a convention at the Capitol at Harris- 

 burg, on February 20 and 21, for the purpose of considering the 

 dangers presented by the prevalence and spread of the "Chestnut 

 Blight", and the methods for controlling it. It will be remembered 

 that the State had appropriated $275,000 for the Commission 

 which is to study and combat this dreaded disease. 



Cornell University has decided to expand the instruction in 

 forestry which it began last fall by reopening the school which it 

 closed about a decade ago. Prof. Roth will leave Michigan to 

 head the Cornell School this fall. Prof. Mulford will continue 

 there as one of his assistants, and Mr. John Bentley, Jr., Yale, 

 '07, as assistant professor. Some 55 students are taking this 

 year's course in silviculture. 



This year the department is not receiving technical students ; 

 but the enlarged department plans to offer a thorough profes- 

 sional forestry course, to open next fall. 



Mr. Roth has been the director of the forest school at the 

 University of Michigan since 1903. 



