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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The results will be shown of pulp investi- 

 gations with paper made from the waste of 

 lumbering in the exploitation of various 

 trees whose range extends to the Appa- 

 lachians; and to these will be added maps of 

 the ranges of the trees concerned and il- 

 lustrations of the methods used in utilizing 

 waste by this means. 



Twenty-one commercially important spe- 

 cies of trees will be displayed, cut to show the 

 different sections, and accompanied by range 

 maps of the species. An entire white oak 

 tree, cut in logs of regulation length, will be 

 exhibited side by side with the products that 

 can be made from the various logs when all 

 parts of the tree are utilized to the best ad- 

 vantage. Veneer will be shown from the 

 butt log, lumber from the second, railroad 

 ties from the third, cordwood from the top- 

 cut to four inches in diameter and from the 

 large branches. 



Tannin extract and materials obtained 

 through distillation of oak, namely, charcoal, 

 acetates, oils, and alcohol, will be shown as 

 part of this exhibit. Products of the tur- 

 pentine industry will be shown, and actual 

 trunks of trees will show the good and bad 

 methods of turpentining. In addition, there 

 will be detachable-tooth circular saws and 

 band saws, together with logs cut by them, 

 to demonstrate the economy secured by using 

 band saws instead of circular saws. 



Kansas State Fair Exhibit 



The Forest Service will have a forestry ex- 

 hibit at the Kansas state fair, held at Hutch- 

 inson, Kans., September 10 to 17. This will 

 be devoted primarily to showing the benefits 

 of tree planting. Pictures of plantations of 

 species suitable to that region will be shown, 

 as well as cross-sections of trees specially 

 adapted for planting in Kansas. Prof. George 

 L. Clothier will deliver illustrated lectures on 

 tree planting in Kansas. 



Attractive Reminder 



The Western Forestry and Conservation 

 Association has gotten out, in their cam- 

 paign calling attention to the forest fire 

 menace, a most attractive sticker, on which. 

 in white lettering against a red background, 

 is the following statement : 



"$100,000,000 A YEAR Is CIRCULATED IN 

 THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BY THE LUMBER 

 INDUSTRY. You SHARE IT. BURNED TIMBER 

 PAYS No WAGES. HELP PROTECT THE 

 FORESTS FROM FIRE/' 



Association for Care of City Trees 



The American Association for the Plant- 

 ing and Care of City Trees was recently or- 

 ganized in Brooklyn, N. Y. The purpose of 

 the association is to establish a movement for 

 the planting and care of trees and shrubbery 

 in city streets, and in the yards and about 

 the homes of the citizens, by arousing lo- 

 cality interest and pride and inducing organ- 

 ized local action. The officers chosen tem- 

 porarily are: President, John J. Schoon- 

 hoven, M.A. ; vice-presidents, Prof. Henry S. 

 Graves, W. A. Murrill, Ph.D.., and Miss 

 Julia E. Rogers (director of the nature club, 

 "Country Life in America") ; Secretary, Miss 

 Anna Billings Gallup (curator, Children's 

 Museum) ; treasurer, Miss Harriet M. 

 Walker ; forester, J. J. Levison. The com- 

 mittees and their chairmen are : Member- 

 ship, Miss M. W. Carmichael; literature, 

 Miss Gallup; schools and neighborhoods, 

 Miss Annie C Patterson; extension, Mr. 

 Levison ; finance, Miss Walker. 



Fungus to Destroy Brown^tail Moths 



As a result of encouraging experiments 

 made under the direction of Mr. F. W. Rane, 

 state forester of Massachusetts, a fungus 

 called empusa is now being planted in va- 

 rious parts of that state in the effort to get 

 control of the brown-tail moth. The cater- 

 pillars of the moth eat this fungus, which 

 is fatal to them, and rapidly communicate 

 the disease of which they die to others of 

 their kind. 



"Silk "from Wood Pulp 



An English firm is said to be putting half 

 a million dollars into a plant in Pennsylvania 

 for the manufacture of silk from pulp wood. 

 For the past two years the manufacture of 

 this silk has been going on in England. The 

 product is called vicose silk, and is said to 

 be a very good imitation of the genuine. 



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Soldiers as Fire Fighters 



The Western Pine Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation believes that government troops sta- 

 tioned in states where forest fires may occur 

 ought to be instructed in the art of fighting 

 such fires, and be made available for that 

 purpose. They have addressed a resolution 

 to the President to that effect. 



