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THE FORESTER. 



December.* 



CHIPS AND CLIPS. 



It is a Bavarian maxim to plant a tree 

 in every open space. 



At the end of a prosperous year, " Logs 

 is riz " is still the burden of the lumber- 

 man's song. 



Apropos of the convening of Congress,, 

 it seems unfortunate that the genius who 

 counts on utilizing sawdust commercially 

 cannot join forces with the politicians who 

 " saw wood." 



It is predicted that Gum will soon be as 

 popular as Cottonwood in all branches of 

 the package business. 



A thousand dollars tariff was collected 

 on a single cargo of Canadian Pine at 

 Dunkirk, N. Y., recently. 



The official report of exports of forest 

 products from Canada during the past year 

 shows a falling off of nearly one-sixth, the 

 total export valuation being placed at 

 twenty six and a half millions. 



The Transvaal War has spoiled the 

 prospects of Pacific Coast exporters who 

 were building up a considerable trade with 

 South Africa. 



The camphor tree (Lattrus camfthora') 

 is being planted as a street tree in New 

 Orleans, La. A tree planted in 1883 in 

 a four-inch pot is now 35 feet high and 52 

 inches in circumference at the butt. 



Governor Scofield, of Wisconsin, has 

 acquired large timber tracts in Idaho, to 

 which State he will remove at the end of 

 his official term. 



Deciduous trees can be moved very 

 easily at this season of the year. By dig- 

 ging a trench around the tree now, the 

 change of location can be made without 

 trouble at any time during the Winter. 



The annual meeting of the Minnesota 

 State Forestry Association will be held the 

 first Tuesday in December, being the e;th 

 proxj in Minneapolis. 



The Manufacturers' Association of 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., at its November meeting, 

 approved the resolutions recently adopted 

 by the State Commerce Convention on 

 " The Preservation of Our State Forests.'* 



A five-foot flood in the Susquehanna at 

 Williamsport, Pa., has brought down 

 many stranded logs, much to the lumber- 

 man's delight and profit. 



A Wisconsin lumber company has 

 entered into a contract with a Chicago 

 firm disposing of its entire lumber cut for 

 1900, approximating fifty million feet. 



The American record for a single cargo 

 of lumber exported was broken a short 

 time ago by the Norwegian steamer 

 " Guernsey," which carried nearly three 

 and one-half million feet out of Portland, 

 Oregon. 



The Division of Forestry of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture has increased 

 400 per cent, in the numbers of its work- 

 ing force, during the past eighteen months. 



The increasing use of wood for street 

 paving purposes in England has attracted 

 attention to the Jack Pine of Ontario. This 

 is a heavier, stronger and denser wood 

 than the Baltic or Norway timber, and its 

 durability is said to be remarkable. 



Eight hundred and four thousand feet 

 of lumber were turned out by a Min- 

 neapolis mill, in a regular run of eleven 

 hours, beating the best previous record by 

 82,000 feet. 



There is a strong suggestion of an ac- 

 ceptation of the principles of forestry in 

 a Minneapolis lumberman's purchase of 

 large tracts of California Sugar Pine. It 

 is said he will hold them for his sons to 

 develop, when thev become of age. 



