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subjected to the full-cell process of creosoting and allowed to 

 weather for a year is in no way inferior to untreated timber. 

 When tested immediately after treatment, the results show the 

 treated timber to be slightly inferior to the untreated timber." 



Ontario is the latest Canadian province to appoint a Provin- 

 cial Forester in the Department of Lands, Forests and 

 Mines. This position, abolished several years ago, has been once 

 more established with the appointment of Prof. E. J. Zavitz to 

 the post. Professor Zavitz is a graduate of Ann Arbor and since 

 graduation has been in charge of forestry work at Guelph College 

 for the Department of Agriculture. His main energies hereto- 

 fore have been in connection with the waste land problem. Prof. 

 Zavitz's initial activities will probably be in the fields of lumber 

 slash disposal, fire protection organization, and general recon- 

 naissance. 



In order to protect and administer the Dominion Forest Re- 

 serves to the best advantage, they are being subdivided into ranger 

 districts and houses are being built at strategic points for the use 

 of the rangers in charge. The first of such houses to be occupied 

 on the Duck Mountain Forest Reserve is located at Madge Lake, 

 a few miles from Kamsack, Sask. 



The ranger at this station has direct charge of some two hun- 

 dred and thirty square miles of highly valuable, young second- 

 growth spruce and poplar forest, and his central object and work 

 will be to safeguard it from fire by every possible means, so that 

 in two or three decades it may yield welcome and abundant sup- 

 plies of fuel and lumber to the dwellers on the prairies. 



The new forestry policy of the State of Kentucky, as outlined 

 by J. E. Barton, State Forester, at a dinner of the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club, gives promise of definite accomplishments and should 

 be of mutual benefit to all timber interests in the State. The 

 essential features of the plans worked out by the State Forestry 

 Board are : 



The establishment of nurseries, both for demonstration pur- 

 poses and as a business proposition, including the sale of seedlings 

 to private concerns which are engaging in forestry work. 



The purchase of lands and the acquirement of others by gift 



