FOREST KOT?:S 2/28/14 



Canada has 23 million acres in timber reserves, as 

 compared \vith 187 million acres in the national forests of the 

 United States* 



Apple v/ood i the favorite Material for ordinary saw 

 handles, and scree goes into so-called brier pipes* 



New Jersey has a timbered area of about two million 

 acres, on which the timber is v'orth about 8,500,000 on the 

 stump* It is mainly valuable for cordr/ood. 



Ilany of the forest fires attributed to railroads are 

 caused not by sparks from locomotives, but by cigar and cigarette 

 butts throv;n from, smoking-car v/indows. 



Port Orford cedar of the Pacific coast, recently tried 

 as a substitute for English v/illov/ in the manufacture of artifi- 

 cial linbs, has been found unsatisfactory. While it is light 

 enough, it is too coarse and brittle, 



As an experiment, the supervisor of the Beave-rhead na- 

 tional forest is stripping the bark from the bases of a number 

 of lodgepole pine trees at various periods before they ?.re to be 

 cut for telephone poles, This girdling causes the trees to exude 

 resin, and it is desired to find what effect this may have as a 

 preservative treatment for the poles* 



