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?OPi:ST fflTKS * 



The American forestry association has members in 

 every state in the union, in every province in Canada, and in 

 every civilized and semi -civilized country in the v/orld. 



I lakers of phonographs ai & mining to use v*ood instead 

 of metal in all parts of the instrument where this is possible, 

 in order to increase the mellowness of the tone, 



On the ?ocatello forest, IdrJho, 230 p 000 trees were 

 planted during the past year, and almost half a million in the 

 past three years, fully three-fourths of v/hich are alive and 

 do in veil.. 



Experiments in the use of aspen for shingles shov that 

 the shingles do not check in seasoning, and that they turn v/ate^ 

 satisfactorily, but that they are too easily broken in handling. 



There are sOi^what more than 500 recognized tree spe- 

 cies in the United States, of rliich abput 10,0 are commercially 

 ir-portant for timber. Of the 500 recognised species, 300 are 

 represented in the government's nev/ly acquired Appalachian for- 

 ests, All American species, except a very fey/ subtropical ones 

 on the Florida keys and in extreme southern Texas, are to be 

 found in one or another 'of the national forests. 



