(FROM THE FOREST SERVICE, U. S. 

 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION) 



Boy Scouts to help Government find Black Walnut. 



WASHINGTON, May . President Wilson's ap- 

 peal to the Boy Scouts of America to help win 

 the war by locating supplies of black walnut trees has 

 been followed by arrangements under which the AYar 

 Department, the Forest Service, and the Boy Scout or- 

 ganization have joined efforts to find the needed timber. 



As President AYilson pointed out, the AYar Depart- 

 ment program makes the securing of black walnut lum- 

 ber for use in manufacturing airplane propellers and 

 gunstocks of the utmost importance. War Department 

 and Forest Service officials are combing the country 

 for black walnut timber, which can no longer be found 

 in abundance anywhere but has to be culled, often as 

 single trees, from mixed forest growths. Much of the 

 black walnut that is left is in farmers' woodlots, and 

 it is primarily to locate this that the Boy Scouts have 

 been called into service. In the aggregate, there are 

 said to be large supplies. 



Many thousands of blanks and letters of instruc- 

 tions are being printed by the government for distri- 

 bution to scouts and scoutmasters throughout the re- 

 gion in which black walnut occurs in commercial quan- 

 tities. Individual trees may be found as far East as 

 Connecticut, northward in New York to and beyond 

 the Canadian line, southward almost to the Gulf of 

 Mexico, and westward far into the prairie states, but 

 the Ohio and Mississippi valley states, the middle At- 



