564 Forestry Quarterly. 



Professor Kienitz is printed in translation by Mr. Ellwood Wilson 

 in the Canadian Forestry Journal for May — June, 1912. 



"Forest Leaves" brings in the October number of 191 1 an ac- 

 count of the Forest School at Tharandt. In it the writer, an 

 instructor at the Mont Alto Academy, calls this latter "the only 

 technical State school in America" and Tharandt its model ! What 

 would the professors of Tharandt think if they saw their off- 

 spring? How far does the Academy reach up to the standard set 

 in this issue? These questions do not propose to reflect upon 

 whatever good work the Academy is doing, but upon the mis- 

 taken notion of its position. 



Some years ago a Russian entomologist reported on partially 

 successful experiments in the use of vaccine to combat insects. 

 We, now, are in receipt of an advertisement by W. Osmer 

 Majilton, M. D., of New York, claiming a successful application 

 of vaccination in case of elm blight, hickory borers, fruit tree 

 blight and San Jose scale. The vaccine is a patent and its na- 

 ture not disclosed. 



The Appleton & Sewall Co. has closed its New York office. Mr. 

 James W. Sewall, formerly of this firm, has opened an office at 

 Old Town, Maine, to carry on forestry work, having associated 

 with him almost the entire woods force of the Appleton & Sewall 

 Co. 



Among the literature, that is most useful, but can receive only 

 occasional mention by us are the various "Rangers" issued at 

 the headquarters of National Forests. These are unique under- 

 takings to keep the force on the Forest informed not only of 

 doings in the District, but also of the practical literature, in ad- 

 dition to bringing articles from the practical field, containing 

 many useful suggestions. 



There is even style to these modest journals, as the last number 

 of the "Sierra Rangers", testifies, not to speak of its contents 

 which as the name and the red looks of the number implies — 

 Forest Fire Number — is given up to this most important sub- 

 ject. A blue print of a newly designed (McLeod and Gray) 



