FOREST KOT3S 



The Canadian government is using Indian fire patrolmen 

 to protect the forests of northern Manitoba, 



A Pennsylvania gun company is using the washes pleo-e of 

 black and Circassian walnut, left after veneer cutting, for gun 

 stocks. 



Ghent, Belgium, furnishes practically all of the potted 

 specimens of the symmetrical Araucaria, or Norfolk island pine, 

 used as an ornamental foliage house plant, in Europe and America, 

 The United States imports at least 250,000 of these plants in 5 

 or 6-inch pots each 3'ear, 



Arrangements have just been made for the sale of 40 mil- 

 lion feet of timber on the Tongass national forest in Alaska, Thic 

 forest is cut up by bays and inlets, some of which give an oppor- 

 tunity for taking the timber fi"om the mill to the decks of ocean- 

 going steamers. The Tongass forest is now self-supporting, its 

 lumber product being used largely in local industries, much going 

 into boxes for canned salmon* 



California state inspectors at San Francisco have found 

 a new canker disease on chestnut trees recently imported from Japan. 

 According to Dr. Haven Metcalf , the government s expert on such di, 

 eases, this appears to be of the same type as the chestnut blight 

 which is ravaging the forests of the eastern United States, and it 

 is possible that the new disease would be equally as destructive 

 if it became established in this country 



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