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THE FORESTER. 



July, 



that has been passed in this State has been 

 mainly through these two bodies; and one 

 law, which compels the constables to turn 

 out and summon a posse and put out a fire, 

 and bring in the neighbors from these fire- 

 infested districts and compel them to put 

 out the fire that law has been one of the 

 most potent factors in changing public 

 sentiment that you can conceive of. Be- 

 fore that became a legal necessity before 

 it was anybody's duty to put out these fires 

 before anyone was armed with the au- 

 thority to summon a posse and suppress 

 it, the man who started a fire was looked 

 upon as a harmless vagrant; but starting a 

 fire to-day is to put the whole community 

 out at the fire line; they leave at home 

 their sowing, their crops and harvesting 

 also ; and the result has been that the man 

 who hitherto, starting a forest fire, was 

 -simply tolerated, has now come to be re- 

 garded as a public enemy. That rs the 

 best result of the fire laws in this State.'' 



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A Course in Dr. John Gifford will this 

 Forestry. summer give a course on For- 

 estry in the Chautauqua Summer School, 

 Chautauqua, New York, from July yth to 

 July 27111. His course will consist of a 

 series of illustrated lectures and is intended 

 for everybody desiring to secure a general 

 knowledge of the principles and science 

 of the art of forestry. The announcement 

 says that " the course will be found 'very 

 valuable to the teachers of geography." 

 Among the subjects to be discussed are 

 the economic, climatic and hygienic in- 

 fluences of the forest, forestry for farmers, 

 the formation, production and care of 

 forests and their geographical distribution, 

 forest utilization, including the use of 

 wood and other products of the forest. 

 1 >r. Gifford will devote five hours a week 

 to the course and excursions will be taken 

 dail. 



In New Brunswick. 



"According to the 

 thirty-ninth annual re- 

 port of the Surveyor-General of New 

 Brunswick, the receipts from timber lands 

 i he year ended October 31, 1899, were 

 ",655.67, made up as follows: Tim- 



ber licenses, $31,121.15; renewals, $31,- 

 240; stumpage, $98,294.52. This is an 

 increase over the previous year of about 

 $2^,000, due principally to the large sale 

 of limits held on August 30, 1899. At 

 this sale 1,169^2 square miles were dis- 

 posed of, for which the sum of $24,360, 

 or nearly $2 1 per square mile, was rea- 

 lized. The licenses were sold for the bal- 

 ance of the 25-year term, which began in 

 1 893 . "- Exchange. 



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" Cutting merchantable timber, that 

 which is matured and ready for the har- 

 vest, is both necessary and right ; but over 

 thousands of acres not needed for cultiva- 

 tion or unsuitable to it, the cutting should 

 have been so controlled that restoration 

 would have followed, and now we might 

 be getting supplies of timber from areas 

 cut over a-half a century ago or less." 

 Hon S. M. Owen in ^Minnesota Horti- 

 culturist. 



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The Minnesota "As to the Minnesota 

 Park. Park in Congress, it is post- 



poned, set forward or held up, as vou 

 choose to call it. Speaker Henderson, as 

 w r as understood early in the week, refused 

 to the last moment to take up the park 

 measure at this session of Congress. None 

 the less it will be taken up next Decem- 

 ber, and in all probability with success. 

 Meantime, let the heathen rage. Secre- 

 tary Ethan Allen Hitchcock says there 

 will be no more estimating and no more 

 sale of that Indian Pine. This much at 

 least is sure, and so long as the country 

 remains as it was, we still have our park, 

 and also the prospect of its perpetuity." 

 Forest and Stream. 



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"The factory of the Diamond Match 

 Company at Athol, Mass., consumes 2,- 

 000,000 feet a month and has ten years' 

 timber supply on hand, being the largest 

 owner of timber in that country. No 

 matches are made at that point, the work 

 being confined wholly to preparing the 

 blocks, most of the product going to 

 Liverpool, England, also to other foreign 

 countries." American Lumberman. 



