FOREST NOTES 



11/10/13 



There is a flourishing forest school in the Phil- 

 ippines, and .28 men were graduated with the class of 1913. 



The so-called Scotch pine is the principal tree 

 in the Prussian forests* Its wood is much like that of the 

 western yellow pine of the United States. 



In general it may be stated that the most danger- 

 ous forest fire periods in the west are in middle and late 

 summer; in the east they are in the spring and fall* 



Because of the importance of forestry at the annual 

 conservation congress ift Washington November '18 to 20, an extra 

 day is added to the sessions, Monday, the 17th* 



It has been suggested that guayacan, a very hard 

 wood of Central America, may furnish shuttle blocks to supple- 

 ment dogwood and persimmon, now most used, and in dahger' Of 

 becoming exhausted* 



Iftider forest regulations in Colombia > rubber gather- 

 ers are required to give the trees a rest period in tapping 

 them far gum* the size, number, and location of the incisions 

 are regulated by law. In the United State* similar regulations 

 are in force in the tapping of pines for turpentine on the 

 Florida national forest. 



Jl Ji M. J*. 



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