minent, but relief was secured by an amendment to the agree- 

 ment, approved by the secretary of agriculture, by which the 

 federal government expends $500 more and the state $1,000 

 more. Under any conditions, the law requires the state to 

 spend as much money as the federal government. In the 

 usual summer, the state spends on an average three dollars 

 to the federal government's one; New York will expend at 

 least ten dollars. The government, however, will not neces- 

 sarily adhere to the ratio established with a state confronted 

 by an exceptional fire menace. In such emergencies it will 

 help as far as its funds go in accordance with the needs of 

 the situation. 



Manufacturers of artificial limbs are seeking substitutes for 

 English willow, used because of its combined lightness and 

 strength. It is claimed that the Port Orford cedar of the Pacific 

 Coast will prove equally serviceable. 



The buffalo herd on the Wichita national forest, Oklahoma, 

 now numbers 48, 10 calves having been born this year. When 

 the buffalo -were introduced on the Wichita .in 1907 there zee re 

 15 head. 



The lands burned over during the terrible fires on the Idaho 

 national forests in 1910 are now largely covered with a thick 

 growth of young tree seedlings, by natural reseeding. 



It is said that 90,000,000 broom handles are used annually in 

 the United States; one for each man, woman, and child. 



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