NEWS AND NOTES 



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to spend on the Indian forests will be. used 

 in the care and protection of the forests. 

 Timbered lands on the Indian reservation 

 are estimated at about 24,980,200 acres, 

 having an approximate value of $92,000,000. 

 The logging operations carried on within 

 the Indian forests during the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1910, resulted in the pro- 

 duction of 195,918,530 board feet of lumber 

 with a value of $1,293,926. 



Tree Planting on Australian Farms 



The necessity of replacing, to some extent, 

 the lost forests of the world is becoming 

 more urgent every year in Australia not less 

 than in other countries. In the preface to 

 his "Annual Catalogue of Trees for Free 

 Distribution, 1910-11," Mr. Walter Gill, con- 

 servator of forests, says : "It matters not 

 whether we regard it from the standpoint of 

 the protection trees afford against the wind, 

 or from that of the grateful shade they pro- 

 vide in the trying heat of the summer ; 

 whether we consider their function as fac- 

 tors in beautifying the landscape, or dwell 

 on their great value as producers of com- 

 mercial lumber regarded from whatever as- 

 pect may be chosen, they are a source of 

 ever-increasing interest." It is worthy of 

 note that last year the total number of trees 

 distributed amounted to 317,204, the number 

 of applicants for which was 1,996. A thou- 

 sand catalogues were issued, containing the 

 usual information as to methods of planting, 

 description of trees, and numbers obtainable. 

 Trees have now been issued gratis by the de- 

 partment for twenty-eight years, and during 

 that period 36,994 applications have been re- 

 ceived, in response to which a total of 

 7,583,729 trees have been distributed. The 

 catalogue contains directions for planting a 

 most important subject, if success is to at- 

 tend the operation ; the conditions upon which 

 young trees will be distributed, a list of the 

 seven state nurseries for the guidance of in- 

 tending applicants, and a brief description of 

 the trees available. South Australian Jour- 

 nal of Agriculture. 



Largest Cut of Yellow Pine 



Statistics reviewed by The Southern Lum- 

 berman show that while the production of 

 yellow pine is the greatest in the history of 

 the trade, this production is being exceeded 

 by the shipment. As compared with 1907, 

 the banner year in the yellow pine trade, 

 production for the first six months of this 

 year shows a net increase of 213,347, 346 

 feet, or 15.1 per cent. For the same period 

 shipments have exceeded cut by 78,429,951 

 feet, or 5.5 per cent. 



Striking Figures of Waste 



At a recent meeting of the National Lum- 

 ber Manufacturers' Association, Captain J. 

 B. White, an authority on forests and lum- 

 ber, said : 



"In the South we are cutting over two 

 and a quarter million acres of Yellow Pine 

 every year, or about 7,500 acres every day, 

 producing 13,000,000,000 feet of lumber 

 each year, and 20 per cent waste makes the 

 enormous sum of 2,600,000,000 feet of lum- 

 ber. This means loss to the transportation 

 companies in freight of 173,000 carloads 

 each year, and at $7 a thousand means an 

 annual loss to labor of $18,200,000. And in 

 the entire nation we are cutting 40,000,000 

 feet annually, leaving 8,000,000 acres a year 

 of cut-over lands., and a total waste from 

 unsalable low grades of at least 6,000,000,000 

 feet, or half a million carloads annually lost 

 to the country. Add to this the estimated 

 loss of $50,000,000 by fires every year, and 

 we have a total loss to the nation and to 

 the world of over $100,000,000 per annum." 



Canadian Conservation Pioneer Dies 



The New York Paper Trade Journal 

 says that in the death of Monsignor La- 

 flamme, rector of Laval University, Quebec, 

 Canada has lost one of her very ablest 

 scholars and most devoted patriots. He 

 threw himself with a whole heart into the 

 problem of the conservation of natural re- 

 sources. He realized with unerring instinct 

 the vital importance of the preservation of 

 Canada's forest assets, and h ; s work in the 

 field will be gratefully remembered by the 

 pulp and paper manufacturers of Canada, 

 and particularly those of Quebec. There i> 

 no doubt that the plea he put forth for the 

 preservation of the forests of Quebec had a 

 most important bearing on the policy that 

 has since been adopted by the government 

 and on the grasp which the people of Que- 

 bec now have of this question. 



A Club Woman on Florida Forestry 



Mrs. Kirk Monro, writing in The Florida 

 Housekeeper, says : 



"Florida forestry is beginning to be what 

 some time will be a great work. I like to 

 think that Florida was among the first to 

 have timber reserves, and now again she is 

 coming forward with her two national for- 

 ests, aided by the splendid work of the wo- 

 man's clubs and civic societies of the State. 



"It is true we have only begun the work, 

 but it is a great beginning and the people 

 we are most anxious to interest are begin- 

 ning to look up and listen and answer. If 

 we go back to the beginning of forestry 



