1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



491 



Close of Mr. George B. Sud- 



worth, dendrologist of 

 , T*' . & 



the Forest Service, has 



just returned from the Pacific Coast, 

 where various important official duties 

 have claimed his attention, among 

 them the closing of the Forest Service 

 display at the Lewis and Clark Cen- 

 tennial Exposition, Portland, Ore. A 

 large amount of valuable forest ex- 

 hibit property transparencies, mod- 

 els, forest instruments, etc. is being 

 returned to Washington for safe-keep- 

 ing and for future use by the service. 



Mr. Sudworth reports that the Gov- 

 ernment forest exhibit at Portland was 

 from all points of view the most suc- 

 cessful one undertaken by the Forest 

 Service. More, perhaps, than any 

 other part of the United States, the 

 Northwest took the keenest sort of in- 

 terest in the effort made by the service 

 to point out the peculiar local forest 

 problems and to bring before the peo- 

 ple of that section the importance of 

 early adopting a conservative utiliza- 

 tion of its enormous but inexhaustible 

 timber wealth. 



A large part of this display will be 

 lent to the New England Forest, Fish, 

 and Game Association, which gives its 

 annual exposition in Boston, Mass., 

 during the last week in December. 



Another matter which has received 

 attention was the inspection of investi- 

 gation that the Forest Service is con- 

 ducting in California and the arid 

 Southwest of desert pines, acacias, and 

 eucalypts, for the purpose of deter- 

 mining the greatest usefulness of these 

 drought-enduring trees in sections of 

 the country where trees are scarce or 

 entirely wanting. 



Woods for 

 Cooperage 



The study which the 

 Forest Service is mak- 

 ing of the woods used in 

 the cooperage industry is receiving 

 much encouragement among manufac- 

 turers. In the northern states an 

 agent of the service is devoting his 

 chief attention to slack cooperage 

 stock, and in the southern states an- 

 other agent is working upon the stock 

 used in tight cooperage. Excellent op- 



portunity has been afforded both men 

 for experimental work, and they are 

 making some very interesting tests at 

 various plants to determine the num- 

 ber and grade of staves produced by 

 logs of different diameters. The study 

 of box and basket woods has progress- 

 ed so far that data have been secured 

 for these woods in New York and 

 New England. An agent of the ser- 

 vice addressed a meeting of the Na- 

 tional Association of Box and Box 

 Shook Manufacturers at Niagara Falls 

 recently, and has had a conference 

 with the chairman of the committee on 

 forestry appointed by the association. 

 As a result of this conference, it is 

 hoped that experimental work of prac- 

 tical value to box manufacturers will 

 be undertaken and completed. 



Planting Owing to the large num- 



Plans by j-^j. Q applications re- 



Forest Service , r , , , , 



ceived from timberland 



owners who desire to apply conserva- 

 tive principles on their lands in the 

 South, the Forest Service is preparing 

 to devote much attention to this work 

 during the coming winter. Its agents 

 will visit most of the southeastern 

 states, and those desiring to have ex- 

 aminations made with a view to secur- 

 ing the co-operation of the service in 

 forest work should apply at once, since 

 winter is the best season for work in 

 this region, and the presence of agents 

 on the ground will enable the service 

 to give prompt attention to such appli- 

 cations. 



An agent of the Forest Service will 

 next week go to Florida with three 

 assistants, to make preliminary exam- 

 inations of several large tracts in that 

 state. One of these, in Lee county, 

 comprises over 700,000 acres. Appli- 

 cations for other large tracts, aggre- 

 gating over one million acres, have al- 

 ready been received. 



Educational The general practical 



Campaign success of farmers' insti- 

 in Forestry tute wOfk ^^ a?ricul . 



tural lines has indicated a new line of 



work for the Forest Service in 



ing the attention of the fanners of the 



