152 THE FORESTER. June, 



fuel ; but I suggest that it should be regit- manufacturer, in his search for a cheap 



lated by the Government for the best in- raw material for paper making, has suc- 



terests of all. Timber growth is so slow cessfully experimented with turf. It is 



in these higher latitudes, that when a alleged that from the cleaned and bleached 



region has once been depleted there is no turf fibers he produces a remarkably dur- 



prospect of its having usable timber again able paper substance. This method is 



for generations to come." said to have been patented in various civi- 



jt lized countries and to be meeting with 



Eucalyptus Dr. John Gifford, of the gratifying success. Paper of various kinds, 



for Cuba. New York State College pasteboard, and paper boxes are now made 



of Forestrv has iust re- out ^ tul ^ and are declared to be of good 



ceived from France, through J. M. Thor- quality and to have great power of resist- 



bum & Co., a consignment of Eucalyptus ance," Consular Reports, October. 



seeds for the Sanitary Department of the ^ 

 City of Havana. These seeds will be 



sown by Mr. Eben White, under the di- Forest Fires Since the May number of 



rection of Dr. V. Havard. As soon as of the Past the Forester went to 



the young trees are of sufficient size they Month. press, additional forest 



will be planted about the city with the fives in nine states have 



hope of improving its sanitary condition been reported. Following is a record of 



thereby. Seeds of the following species of the more destructive fires reported : 

 have been received : E. amygdalina, E . 



resinifera, E. rostrata and E. viminalis. Pennsylvania. Near Bradford many 

 Other species will be tried so that the oil derricks were burned and considerable 

 kinds best suited to the climate may be timber land burned over by a forest fire, 

 known. Owing to the scarcity of wood At Austin a large amount of valuable ti ra- 

 in central and western Cuba, species which ber and bark was destroyed on May 7th, 

 yield the best timber have been selected. and the railroad shops and mills were 

 E. resinifera has-been extensively grown closed in order that the men might assist 

 in southern Europe and is known as "Aus- in checking the flames. In Somerset 

 tralian Mahogany," while E. rostrata, County a fierce forest fire broke out on 

 because of its usefulness to the farmers of May 1st, and burned over a large area of 

 South Africa, is there called " The Farm- timber; many sheep were burned, 

 er's Friend." 



Owing to the great demand for telegraph Montana. On May 5th a large forest 



and telephone poles, fence posts and rails fire was discovered near Essex. It broke 



and tobacco poles in Cuba, and to the out in a tract of valuable timber and as the 



rapid growth of several of these Eucalypts snow was gone great damage resulted, 



their propagation ought to prove a great , T _ , , , . n 



financial success. New Jersey. On May 5 th forest fires 



Mr. White reports that a few which were burnin g m nm e sections of Atlantic 



have been transplanted are growing well. Count y- Hundreds^ men were needed 



A bundle of willow cuttings was also sent to fi S ht the fire and in addition to the loss 



by Prof. Rowlee from the Cornell Uni- of buildings and fences, fully $100,000 



versity Salicetum. It will be interesting worth of fine timber was destroyed. 



to note how some of these northern plants tv T v .. at 



.,, ,..-,, p Tennessee. Near Kingsport, on May 



will grow in a tropical climate. ., a , , j 1 ,*. 



1 1 2th, fires broke out and caused great 



Jf damage to timber and farm property. 



Paper from "Consul Mahin, of Many fences were burned and the crops 



Turf - Reichenberg, under date now exposed to stock are suffering greatly. 



of July 7, 1900, says: 



According to the business columns of a Massachusetts. A fire at Holden on 



Reichenberg newspaper, an Australian May 7th, destroyed 400,000 feet of lum- 



