NEWS AND NOTES 



Looting The discoverers of 



America found then, 



vania Railroad, is on a selves chin deep in a 



six months' tour examining treating reservoir of rich natural resources. 



plants for tie and timber preservation. Your grandfather was in it up to his 



The Pennsylvania Railroad now has shoulders. Your father waded around 



three trained foresters in its employ, waist deep in God's reserve of material 



The other two are Messrs. Bond and mercy. You are standing in itknee deep. 



Sheppard. Your boy will find some of the rich 



The Iowa Park and Forestry Asso- original mud on his shoe soles, and 



ciation held its seventh annual meet- your grandson will be raking over the 



ing in the horticultural rooms of the dump for some of the old, abandoned 



State House at Des Moines, on De- scraps of the gone-by Golden Age. It 



cember loth and nth. will be but about five hundred years 



Salt Lake City, like Helena and Los f rom t he discovery of America to the 



Angeles, is going into forest culture. fi na j looting of her fat inheritance. 



The city council has memorialized the rr / w;/sV . 

 Government to have more trees plant- 



ed on the city lands, and to put the state The complaint of the 



supervision of the lands in Parley's Commission ^ew York State Forest. 



Canyon under the supervision of the Fish and Game Commis- 



Forest Service. sion, which is suing the Long Island 



Railroad for $200,000 for damage done 



Keep The Leader has talked by forest fires caused through lack of 



Pounding o f forestry before. It proper preventive measures on the 



ay will talk of it again. The part of the road, was sustained by 



subject is one that cannot be discussed Judge Jaycox, of the Supreme Court, 



too often. Besides, the attitude of the sitting in Brooklyn. 



general public is such an indifferent The action was brought by the Coin- 



one that those who seek to make a mission upon the petition of many res- 



dent in its opinion must keep on idents who declare that their property 



pounding away. Cleveland Leader. W as being destroyed, and that the law 



Good for the Leader. The same gave the Commission the right to 



method will make the needed dents in bring suit for the protection of the 



State and Federal statute books. property under its care. 



The railroad company filed a demur- 



Intensive There is no land on earth rer on the ground that the Commis- 



Farmingin where intensive farming sion had no jurisdiction outside of 



is more profitable than in State preserves and parks, but Judge 



California. The area that one man can Jaycox decided that there was a just 



care for and supervise to its fullest cause of action. 

 advantage must, of necessity, be small. 



Hence it is that intensive farming re- Endowing a The Yale Corporation 



quires a small farm. With intensive Professorship ^ a s just received $50,000 



farming, irrigation and diversity of ' in lumber company 



crops go hand in hand, and the small bonds, which are for the endowment of 



farmer of California so regulates his a Chair of Applied Forestry and Prac- 



crops and output that there is not a tical Lumbering. This endowment is 



month in the year without its special made by the National Lumber Manu- 



income. . The small farm, intensively facturers' Association; and the secur- 



cultivated with diversified crops, is a ities were conveyed by F. E. Weyer- 



boon to the farmer. Pacific Monthly, haeuser, chairman, and William Car- 



