School Opens at Itasca. 



The forest school at Itasca opens on April 21. From that 

 date until September 1 the juniors will be engaged in actual 

 field work at the summer school. The freshmen enter in 

 June and remain until August. Aside from the training in 

 field practice there will be plenty of room for the good times 

 that the surroundings afford. 



The forests of I'lorida contain 175 different kinds of wood. 



Many of the forest fires attributed to railroads are caused not 

 by sparks from locomotives, but by cigar and cigarette butts 

 thrown from smoking-car windows 



There are seven spruces in the United States. Four are con- 

 fined to the West; two to the Hast: while one, white spruce, has 

 a continent-wide distribution. 



Makers of small hickory handles for hammers, chisels, and the 

 like, are now trying to use the waste from mills which make 

 lickory spokes and pick and ax handles. 



There is much waste in getting out the flaivless white oak neces- 

 sary for tight barrel staves. The forest service is trying to get 

 manufacturers of parquetry flooring to use some of this waste. 



The U. S. consul at Aberdeen, Scotland, thinks that American 

 manufacturers may have a chance to compete in furnishing 

 staves for fish barrels. There has been a recent rise in the price 

 of spruce and fir staves from Sweden and Scotland. 



As an experiment, the supervisor of the Beaverhead national 

 forest is stripping the bark from the bases of a number of lodge- 

 pole pine trees at various periads before they are 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 preserv- 

 ative treatment for the poles. 



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