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Use of Dynamite in Rubber Cultivation 



The use of dynamite in the cultivation 

 of rubber in the Federated Malay States 

 is discussed in an article in the Agricul- 

 tural Bulletin of these states. After de- 

 scribing the operations in detail it says: 



That dynamite is unequaled for break- 

 ing up hardpan or layers of impervious 

 subsoil, which not only prevents the roots 

 from going down to the subsoil but inter- 

 fere with the drainage. 



It is most effective on heavy clay and 

 hard laterite soils and least effective on 

 light or loose soils, which offer no resist- 

 ance to the explosion. 



That it might be profitably employed in 

 holding previous planting, especially in 

 heavy soils, half a charge of dynamite be- 

 ing sufficient for this purpose. 



It may be successfully used in breaking 

 up logs and tree stumps infected with 

 termites in rubber clearings. 



That the value of dynamite for cultiva- 

 tion is not doubted but the high cost of 

 the explosive prevents its more general 

 use. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



activities in preparing for and attending 

 the annual meeting of the association, held 

 in Denver late in April. Mr. Stone and 

 the organization over which he presided 

 exerted a great influence in Colorado, and 

 probably throughout the entire West, dur- 

 ing the critical period when forestry was 

 first introduced as a national policy in the 

 newly established National Forests. His 

 untiring devotion to the cause of conserva- 

 tion, his patience and calm, good sense, to- 

 gether with the great respect accorded to 

 him, were no small factors in overcoming 

 the 'well-organized, determined opposition 

 to National Forests in the West a few 

 years ago. It is given to very few to ac- 

 complish as much as Mr. Stone has in any 

 matter of great public benefit. His influ- 

 ence will be felt for many years, and ap- 

 preciation of his services will increase. 



University of Georgia 

 The Forest Service is conducting a co- 

 operative woodlot study with the Forest 

 School, University of Georgia, the object 

 being to ascertain the methods of mar- 

 keting the farm woodlot products and to 

 suggest improvements. The data will be 

 placed before the farmers of the State in 

 a publication of the university. 



The Forest Nursery is in a flourishing 

 condition. Some 30,000 seedlings, repre- 

 senting about 50 species, were set out this 

 spring. The nursery, as a project, provides 

 for the sale of surplus nursery stock at 

 cost to residents of the State. Many of 

 the colleges, academies and high schools 

 of the State plan to share in the distribu- 

 tion of this surplus stock. 



Forest Camp has been permanently es- 

 tablished on the Georgia tract, in northern 

 Georgia. As soon as possible buildings 

 will be erected and arrangements made for 

 permanent field equipment. Both fresh- 

 men and sophomore forestry students are 

 required to complete summer terms of 

 nine weeks in Forest Camp. Work is also 

 offered for those mature men who desire 

 practical instruction in forest mensuration 

 and to those men and women who desire a 

 knowledge of nature. The Ranger School 

 has a duration of eight weeks, the Nature 

 Study School of six weeks. 



W. G. M. Stone Dead 

 William G. M. Stone, of Colorado, died 

 May 8, in Longmont, Colorado, at the age 

 of 84 years. During the last thirteen years 

 Mr. Stone was president of the Colorado 

 State Forestry Association, resigning be- 

 cause of infirmities less than a month be- 

 fore his death, which was hastened by his 



Acquire Large Property 

 The properties of the L. E. White Lum- 

 ber Company at Greenwood and Point 

 Arena, Mendocino County, California, have 

 been sold to the C. A. Goodyear and James 

 D. Lacey interests of Chicago, and James 

 A. Mackenzie of San Francisco. The tim- 

 ber lands, town site, mills and other as- 

 sets are valued at upwards of $3,500,000. 

 The transaction involves one of the old- 

 est and largest operating redwood proper- 

 ties in the State of California and identifies 

 with California lumber production, one of 

 the oldest, most successful and most widely 

 known groups of lumbermen in the United 

 States. The new organization will be 

 known as the Goodyear Redwood Com- 

 pany. 



The L. E. White Lumber Company 

 founded thirty-five years ago has grown 

 steadily until today it includes over 85,000 

 acres of timber, grazing and agricultural 

 lands: cattle, mills, town, and landings at 

 Greenwood and Point Arena and a line of 

 lumber carrying vessels. For the past 

 fifteen years the enterprise has been un- 

 der the ownership and direction of F. C. 

 Drew of San Francisco. 



The officers of the Goodyear Redwood 

 Company are C. A. Goodyear, Pasadena, 

 Cal., and of the C. A. Goodyear Lumber 

 Company of Chicago and Tomah, Wis., 

 president. The Goodyear family is also 

 prominently identified with the Great 

 Southern Lumber Company at Bogalusa, 

 La., which operates the largest sawmills in 

 the world. Extensive holdings of Douglas 

 fir in Clallam County, Washington, are 

 owned and being developed by the Good- 

 year Logging Company. In California they 

 have some 25,000 acres of White and 

 Sugar pine in Glenn County. Lamont 

 Rowlands, Chicago, 111., of the C. A. Good- 

 year Lumber Company, vice-president. 

 James A. Mackenzie, San Francisco, Cal., 

 vice-president and treasurer. W. G. Collins, 

 formerly assistant manager of the Port- 

 land office of James D. Lacey & Company, 

 secretary and general manager. The new 



company will be represented by J. A. 

 Mackenzie at San Francisco; and W. G. 

 Collins at the Greenwood and Point Arena 

 plants. 



James D. Lacey, founder of the firm that 

 bears his name, and who for more than 

 thirty^five years has been prominent as a 

 successful operator in standing timber, 

 and as a capitalist with broad and varied 

 interests, is chairman of the board of di- 

 rectors. Mr. Lacey was a pioneer in the 

 Southern Cypress industry and with the 

 depleting of the cypress forests his inter- 

 est naturally turns to redwood. The Good- 

 year Redwood Company has entered into 

 an arrangement with the Union Lumber 

 Company of San Francisco and Ft. Bragg, 

 to handle locally the product of the mills 

 at Greenwood; while the Goodyear Lumber 

 Company, through its Eastern and Middle- 

 Western affiliations will vigorously exploit 

 California Redwood in those markets. 



After his long and prominent career as 

 president and manager of the L. E. White 

 Lumber Company, and his active interest 

 in movements for the extension and bet- 

 terment of the California Redwood indus- 

 try, Mr. Drew's retirement is a matter of 

 regret to his former lumbering associates. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



The Conquest of America. By Cleveland 

 Moffett. $1.50. George A. Doran Com- 

 pany, New York. 



A book graphically treating of the story 

 of an imaginary invasion of America, tell- 

 ing how unprepared the country -was 

 to repel invaders and how after a tremen- 

 dous struggle the victory was won. 



The Cruise of the Tomas Barrera. By 

 John Henderson. Putnam Company, 

 New York. 



The author, a Washingtonian, tells in 

 narrative form of a scientific expedition 

 to Western Cuba and the Colorados Reefs, 

 with observations on the geology, fauna, 

 and flora of the region. He was a mem- 

 ber of a party of scientists of the Smith- 

 sonian Institute. The book is profusely 

 illustrated. 



"Field Book of Western Wild Flowers." 

 By Margaret Armstrong, in collaboration 

 with J. J. Thornber, A.M. Putnam's, 

 New York. 



In this little book a very large number 

 of the commoner wild flowers growing in 

 the United States, west of the Rocky 

 Mountains, are pictured and described. It 

 is the first attempt to supply a popular field 

 book for the whole West. The field is vast, 

 including within its limits all sorts of cli- 

 mate and soil, producing thousands of flow- 

 ers in variety and wonderful in beauty. 

 This book is intended primarily for the gen- 

 eral public. Almost all technical botanical 

 terms have, therefore, been translated into 

 ordinary English. 



