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THE FORESTER. 



May, 



gives to a potato crop he can in a few- 

 years raise trees in vast numbers and of 

 sufficient size for a plantation of many 

 acres. Let every land owner help to 

 cover a proper portion of Kansas with 



useful trees, largely for his own good 

 and for the good of those who are to 

 follow. 



C. P. Hartley, 

 Kansas Agricultural College. 



"False Mahogany" of South America/ 



Here, in a growing country, clothed 

 as God seldom has clothed any land 

 with all that makes a forest grand and 

 glorious, stand remarkable trees from 

 which no man's axe has ever taken a 

 chip, and scattered throughout the land 

 are varieties more beautiful than Ma- 

 hogany. 



All things considered, probably the 

 greatest aggregate value in any one va- 

 riety of tree growing in tropical America, 

 based upon abundance, availability and 

 adaptability, will be found in the "Cam- 

 pano Espabi" or "False Mahogany." 

 The great round magnificent trees grow 

 absolutely clear of surface defects, from 

 which, all conditions being equal, the 

 Indians and Negroes of the entire coast 

 from Honduras down prefer to make the 

 large and beautiful canoes which enter 

 so largely into the lives and methods of 

 these people. 



A trunk starting from the root like an 

 upright section of an iron water main, 

 averaged not far from seven feet in di- 

 ameter, and forty to fifty feet to the first 

 limb, above which there was nothing of 

 value. A tree with a fifteen-foot stump 

 was estimated to contain 65,000 feet of 



strictly surface clear. Near by was a com- 

 pleted canoe 43 x 9 x \ x / 2 feet hewn from 

 a tree 13 feet at stump, running 58 feet to 

 the first limb ; and neither on stump, 

 canoe nor trunk was there a defect of any 

 kind. 



No wood can work more kindly under 

 axe than this, and none can be less 

 affected by time, wind, water, or any of 

 the elements of decay. Your knife wilt 

 tell you it is as susceptible to finish 

 as walnut ; and being free from sap,, 

 pitch or gum, you can readily see how- 

 it would receive paint. It shrinks so 

 little that a great canoe broken, aban- 

 doned, and so long forgotten as to have 

 good sized trees growing around and 

 over it stands exposed to the sun and 

 wind, the rain and dews of a tropical 

 climate, and has not opened a single 

 check. I think time will show that in 

 this lies the greatest source of wealth of 

 Colombia's forest resources but there 

 are others. 



An American explorer, A. H. Winchester, 

 of West Virginia, has written from Cartagena, 

 United States of Colombia, to the American 

 Lumberman, an interesting description of that 

 country, from which these excerpts are taken. 



At the commencement (March 24) of 

 the Minnesota School of Agriculture, 

 three young women and thirty young 

 men were graduated. This school is 

 taxed to its utmost to care for all those 

 who are knocking for admission within 

 its doors. "Packed like sardines in a 

 box" fully describes the situation there. 

 Minnesota Horticulturist. 



that the forests under the control of the 

 State of New York will be more valu- 

 able as a source of income and wealth 

 than all the iron and minerals which the 

 State has produced. American Lumber- 

 man. 



It is stated as a conservative estimate 

 of the usefulness of forest reservations 



An association has been formed in? 

 Chicago of the retail lumber dealers of 

 Cook County, forty-two of the leading: 

 firms being represented in the member- 

 ship. 



