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BERRY "^P 



Blooms in June. Hand- 

 some blue berries in 

 September. Makes a 

 picturesque shrub 6-8 

 feet high. Very rare and 

 in quantity. Make your 

 tions now. 



1 ft. high, $1.00. 2 ft. high 

 3 ft. high, $3.00 



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"Feast of Flowers" booklet. 



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AUSTRALIA STARTS QUARANTINE 

 AGAINST TIMBER BORERS 



T> ACKING boxes showing the workings 

 of insect timber borers will not be al- 

 lowed to enter Australian ports if the 

 Federal Director of Quarantine at Mel- 

 bourne can prevent it. He has called the 

 attention of the American Consul to the 

 fact that officers dealing with food sub- 

 stances and general cargo imported into 

 Australia from the United States find that 

 the packing cases not infrequently are 

 constructed of wood showing the borings 

 or workings of insect timber borers. That 

 destructive wood-boring insects may not be 

 introduced into Australia, the attention of 

 the United States Government and shippers 

 has been called to the matter and it is 

 deemed important that some action be 

 taken to prevent the packing and shipping 

 of goods intended for Australia in wooden 

 cases presenting evidence that wood boring 

 insects are or have been present. 



THE TOWN OF YELLOWSTONE 



An executive order eliminating approxi- 

 mately 340 acres from the Madison Nati- 

 onal Forest, on the boundary of the forest 

 which lies close to the western confines of 

 the Yellowstone National Park, was signed 

 by the President December 5. The object 

 of this elimination is to provide space for 

 the establishment of the town of Yellow- 

 stone under the town-site laws. Of the 

 total area of 340 acres, 1.03 acres are re- 

 tained by metes and bounds within the 

 town limits for use by forest officers. 



PIGEONS FOR FOREST FIRE 

 FIGHTING 



'T'HE carrier pigeons and equipment of 

 the Navy Department will be available 

 for the Department of Agriculture next 

 season for conveying messages from forest 

 fire fighters "at the front" to headquarters, 

 says a recent communication from the De- 

 partment of Agriculture. The test of the 

 birds for this use was carried out on a 

 limited scale this season but it encouraged 

 the Forest Service officials to believe that 

 they can be employed profitably on a larg- 

 er scale. To establish a successful car- 

 rier pigeon system, it will be necessary to 

 lay plans during the coming winter, to 

 have the posts properly located and get the 

 birds acclimated and begin their training. 

 Flights of 6oo miles in a single day have 

 been made, while a distance of 150 to 200 

 miles means a two or three-hour flight for 

 the average bird. The distance which 

 would be covered in Forest Service work 

 are considerably less than this, in most 

 instances the flights from fire fighting areas 

 to headquarters being less than fifty miles. 

 The value of the birds in mountainous re- 

 gions where travel is difficult, would be 

 especially great. 





