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Carl V. Raupach, a 1917 graduate of the 

 New York State College of Forestry, at 

 Syracuse University, has been appointed as 

 an Assistant Forester in the New Jersey 

 Department of Conservation and Develop- 

 ment. 



Because of the scarcity and high price 

 of coal. State Forester Alfred Gaskill, of 

 Xew Jersey, is urging farmers, woodlot 

 owners and rural inhabitants to use cord- 

 wood when practicable. The many ad- 

 vantages of producing a home supply are 

 pointed out; the saving of from $5 to $3 

 of the cost of a ton of coal, the profitable 

 employment of farm hands and teams dur- 

 ing slack time, the improvement of wood- 

 land by removing and utilizing inferior and 

 crowded trees, the particular adaptability 

 of wood as a fuel where a quick hot fire 

 is wanted, as in cooking, and the value 

 of wood ash as a potash fertilizer. It is 

 estimated that at least 500,000 cords of 

 wood could now be cut from New Jersey's 

 two million acres of forest to the benefit 

 of the woodland and to its greater security 

 from fire. The utilization thereafter of 

 an annual crop of approximately 200,000 

 cords of wood is urged and sought by prov- 

 ing to the rural inhabitants the advantages 

 of cordwood over coal. 



OHIO 



]\/T ORE than 100 bushels of black wal- 

 nuts are being gathered by the De- 

 partment of Forestry at the Ohio Experi- 

 ment Station at Wooster for planting in 

 forestry nurseries 'this fall. This is the 

 beginning of reforestation -work by the 

 State in growing black walnut. 



Because of the heavy crop of walnuts 

 this year, many land owners are advised 

 to begin growing the valuable timber. The 

 nuts may be planted any time before the 

 ground freezes. They may be planted with 

 husk on or hulled, as there is little dif- 

 ference in germination either way. 



A peculiar characteristic of black wal- 

 nut is that it is extremely intolerant and 

 will not thrive in the shade of other trees. 



A bulletin on growing black walnut is 

 sent free to residents of Ohio on request. 



WISCONSIN 



p C. CHRISTIANSEN, of Trout Lake, 

 * has been appointed Chief Ranger of 

 the State Forestry Department to succeed 

 E. M. Weaver, who was lately assigned 

 to a position in the conservation depart- 

 ment. The appointment was made by the 

 Wisconsin Conservation Commission. For 

 several years Mr. Christiansen has been in 

 supervision of the Forestry Department's 

 nursery at 'Trout Lake and is thoroughly 

 familiar with .the duties of Chief Ranger. 

 Trout Lake will continue to be his head- 

 quarters. 



FOREST FIRES AND LIGHTNING 

 f~\F a total of 102 fires handled so far this 

 season in Seattle, Washington, 40 were 

 caused by lightning. Losses of timber 

 and logs aggregated about $12,500 and 

 logging equipment loss has been slightly 

 more than this, says "The Forest Patrol- 

 man" of Portland. In the territory cov- 

 ered by the Potlatch Timber Protective 

 Association, Idaho, out of 23 fires the last 

 half of July, 20 were caused by lightning, 

 and during the same period 30 out of 31 

 fires reported by the Clearwater Associa- 

 tion, Idaho, were lightning fires. There 

 have been no serious fires so far this sea- 

 son in Oregon. 



The average annual loss in the United 

 States from forest fires is about $28,000,000. 



Oregon, with one-fifth of the timber in 

 the United States and the third State in 

 lumber production, expends $27,000 to main- 

 tain a State Forester and his assistants 

 and carry on protection in the field ; Wash- 

 ington, the leading State in lumber pro- 

 duction, spends only $40,000; while Maine, 

 most of whose forests have been cut over 

 several times, expends more than $100,000 

 yearly for forest protection, and Minnesota 

 about $125,000. 



ROTARIANS TO PRESERVE 

 FORESTS 



IMPRESSED by the startling figures pre- 

 sented them by forestry officials, the 

 Colorado Springs Rotary Club has launched 

 a nation-wide campaign to secure a con- 

 structive program of reforestation and fed- 

 eral appropriations sufficient to continue 

 the necessary work, with special reference 

 to forest experiment stations. A very in- 

 teresting talk was made by A. S. Peck, 

 District Forester of Denver, who is 

 in charge of thirty forests in the Rocky 

 Mountains. Mr. Peck said that less 

 than one-half of the original stand of tim- 

 ber, here when the country was discovered, 

 remains today, and only 30 per cent of that 

 is virgin growth. The present production 

 is 26,000,000,000 feet of timber a year, 

 which is four times the annual growth. 

 Four large areas of timber have been prac- 

 tically denuded, Mr. Peck pointed out, the 

 present center of the industry being on the 

 Pacific Coast 'far from the big markets 

 for the finished product. His statement 

 that it took the product of 75 acres of 

 forest to print the Sunday edition of a 

 metropolitan newspaper excited consider- 

 able comment, as did the fact that in 1880 

 the per capita consumption of newsprint 

 was three pounds a year while in 1010 it 

 was 33 pounds just 11 times as much. 



Inspired hy the message in the lines of 

 "Forest Fires," by John D. Guthrie, S. Wal- 

 ter Krebs. the prominent young American 

 pianist and composer, has set the poem to 

 music and dedicated the song to the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association. He first wrote it 

 as a solo, but later arranged it as a quar- 

 tette for male voices. 



