UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



FOREST SERVICE , , 



FOREST NOT7SS 2/9/14 



Receipts from the use of national fore-tit resources 

 were greatest in Arizona last year* 



Dr. C Do Harsh of the federal bureau of plant indus- 

 try is delivering; a series of illustrated lectures to stockmen 

 in the we at on the subject of plants poisonous to stock, 



The Biltmorc; forest school, established in 1898 end 

 therefore the oldest forest school in America, has been discon- 

 tinued Dr. Co A. Schenck, its director, has returned to his 

 home in Germany. 



The forest service is compiling a new volume table for 

 calculating the board contents of standing vestern yellow pine 

 trees in the southwest. It is based on actual measurements of 

 6,000 trees. 



In trying to find uses for blight-killed chestnut it 

 has be ,-n found that it can not be utilized for crating stone; 

 quarry owners say that chestnut wood loaves an indelible stain 

 on the marble or granite. 



Railroads causod nearly half tho forest fires in Colo- 

 rado and V/'yoming last year, and almost one-sixth wore set by 

 lightning. In California lightning started more than half, with 

 rai Ir oad s a coraparat i ve ly ins i gni f i cant cause , 



