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THE FORESTER. 



April, 



The North American Paper & Lumber 

 Company has recently secured from the 

 Nova Scotia Legislature the lease of a 

 tract of nearly 1,000 square miles of 

 land in Victoria and Inverness Counties, 

 Cape Breton. The lands are leased for 

 the purpose of converting the timber 

 thereon into pulp and paper. 



where trees or plants are grown for sale,, 

 at least once a year, and report upon the 

 discovery of insect pests infesting nur- 

 sery stock. 



During the last month tree bounties 

 to the total of $19,563 68 were paid 

 out to farmers in Minnesota who have 

 planted trees under the act of the Legis- 

 lature in that State giving bounties to 

 those who thus plant. Bienville County 

 has 1,761 acres of trees planted, the 

 farmers receiving therefor a total of 

 $4,226. 



The biggest sticks of timber ever cut 

 in Portland, Oregon, were cut at the 

 mill of Inman, Paulsen & Co. recently. 

 They were of Fir, and were three feet 

 square, and a little more than forty-eight 

 feet long. They contained 5,200 board 

 feet, and weighed about 20,000 pounds 

 each. The timbers were sawed without 

 the aid of special machinery, and were 

 handled easily by the ponderous appa- 

 ratus at the mill. 



General Andrews, the chief fire warden 

 of Minnesota, is authority for the state- 

 ment that while that State for the past 

 twenty-five years has been paying the 

 annual sum of $20,000 in bounties on 

 tree planting, the destruction of forest 

 growth has far exceeded the renewals; 

 at a rate wh'ch, he believes, will exhaust 

 the White Pine supply of that State in 

 fifteen to twenty years. 



One of the most persistent and active 

 workers in the cause of forestry for 

 several years past is Mr. John P. Brown, 

 of Connersville, Ind., who has been 

 elected president of the newly organized 

 Indiana Forestry Association. It was- 

 due to Mr. Brown's tireless efforts that 

 the Indiana Legislature passed the law 

 for the encouragement of the care and 

 preservation of forest lands in that State, 

 mention of which is made elsewhere in 

 this issue of The Forester. 



By the sale of Pine logs in the years 

 past the Menominee Indians, in north- 

 eastern Wisconsin, to the number of 

 1,300 men, women and children, have 

 accumulated a fund of $1,000,000, which 

 is held for them, in the form of interest- 

 bearing bonds, by the Government. This 

 fund grows from year to year. The tribe 

 expends about $75,000 a year in logging 

 operations, and annually clears from 

 $50,000 to $100,000. 



Prof. James Troop, of the Indiana 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, has 

 been appointed State Entomologist. 

 Under the law recently enacted by the 

 Legislature of that State he is required 

 to inspect all nurseries in the State, 



The snowfall in the mountains of Col- 

 orado during the past winter seems to 

 have been unprecedented in quantity. 

 Some of the lines of railway were not 

 reopened for traffic until March 20, 

 having been completely blockaded by 

 snow for two months. Capt. Edward L. 

 Berthoud, of Golden, Jefferson County, 

 who is one of the most active members 

 of the American Forestry Association in 

 Colorado, reports the snowfall for the 

 winter as follows: September, October 

 and November, 27%! inches; December, 

 15% inches; January, 10*^ inches; Feb- 

 ruary, 12 inches; March, 73^ inches^ 

 total 73^2 inches, and it is probable that 

 it was much heavier in the higher ranges^ 



