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AMEEICAN FORESTRY 



forestation of Ohio woodlands will bear 

 fruit in the present constitutional convention. 

 One proposal introduced by Delegate Mil- 

 ler makes it mandatory for the legislature 

 to protect insectivorous birds and such 

 animals as destroy natural enemies of agri- 

 culture and trees. He also would require 

 the legislature to encourage reforestation 

 and make sufficient appropriations for agri- 

 cultural education. Without waiting for 

 the convention or legislature to act, how- 

 ever, Director C. E. Thome, of the station, 

 is out co-operating with owners of wood- 

 lots to reclaim them for reforestation. The 

 Forestry Department offers aid to any such 

 persons applying for it. "Investigations in 

 thirty Ohio counties," says Thorne, "show 

 that only 15 per cent of woodlots are re- 

 served from pasturage." 



Massachusetts 



State Forester Rane, of Masachusetts, is 

 sending his warning to the owners of wood- 

 land in the western part of the State, that 

 they beware of the chestnut tree blight which 

 is making its way eastward from New York 

 and Pennsylvania, where thousands of acres 

 of valuable timber have been destroyed by 

 this new pest. 



The advance guard of the pest has al- 

 ready made its appearance in the Berkshires. 

 It is believed that with the advent of warm 

 weather it will sweep eastward, and destroy 

 every piece of standing chestnut in the State. 

 A serious financial loss is thereby threatened, 

 for the State Forester estimates the chest- 

 nut growth of Massachusetts at more than 

 $7,000,000. 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Supervisors Meet 



The district supervisors of the Forest Serv- 

 ice in California and Western Nevada held 

 a very successful annual convention in San 

 Francisco, starting January 22, at which Chief 

 Forester Henry S. Graves, as well as a num- 

 ber of lesser forestry officials, were present. 

 Representatives of nearly fifty prominent 

 lumber companies and large owners of tim- 

 ber lands attended one of the sessions and 

 held a joint conference with the forest of- 

 ficers. As a result of this conference a 

 number of the leading lumber men and 

 timber owners agreed to take immediate ac- 

 tion toward the formation of an association 

 similar to the Western Forestry and Conser- 

 vation Association. They also organized to 

 aid in protecting the forests from fire, and 

 will work with the Forest Service to this 

 end. Addresses were delivered by Chief 

 Forester Henry S. Graves, Coert DuBois, 

 Assistant District Forester Headley, Super- 

 visors Rogers, Redington, and Rider, F. C. 

 Thompson, Assistant District Forester 

 Woodbury, Swift Berry, J. A. Mitchell, Wil- 

 liam C. Hodge, Forest Assistant Shaw, John 

 H. Hatten, L. A. Barrett, and a number of 

 others. 



District supervisors also held conventions 

 at Portland, Oregon, and Denver, Colo., 

 Chief Forester Graves attending the former. 



Chinese Forestry Students 



Bound for Germany, where for the next 

 year they will study the science of forestry 

 at an agricultural college, Mr. Arlu Liang, 

 the son of Dr. Cheng Tung Liang Cheng, 

 Chinese Ambassador to Berlin, and his 

 cousin, Mr. Foo Tsu Liang, left this country 

 a few days ago. 



The young men each nineteen years old, 

 have been three years in the United States, 

 Mr. Arlu Liang studying at Worcester Acad- 



emy and Mr. Foo Tsu Liang at the Mas- 

 sachusetts College of Agriculture. Both have 

 given much of their attention to the study 

 of forest conservation. 



Mr. Arlu Liang said that he and his cousin 

 were leaving on short notice, a cable mes- 

 sage from his father having arrived telling 

 him to start for Germany on the first steam- 

 ship available. He said he and his cousin 

 were to study forestry in one of the German 

 agricultural schools, in accordance with a 

 plan formulated by his father. 



His father, he declared, was greatly in- 

 terested in saving the forests of China, 

 where little is thought of forest conservation 

 and where thousands of feet of valuable 

 timber are wasted everv year. He de- 

 clared that it was his father's intention to 

 begin an active campaign for the preserva- 

 tion of Chinese forests as soon as political 

 conditions are tranquil in the country. 



Crater National Forest 



The Crater National forest is the subject 

 of an interesting treatise by Findley Burns, 

 in a bulletin published by the United States 

 Forestry Service. The topography of the 

 region, the sunply of water for power and 

 for irrigation purposes, the "crop" of timber, 

 grazing regulations and settlement are 

 covered quite fully in the bulletin. 



It is shown that the forest contains 10,- 

 197,000,000 board feet of merchantable timber 

 and is capable of turning off an annual yield 

 of 90,000,000 feet. The water supply which 

 can be conserved in the forest is said to be 

 sufficient to irrigate 240,000 acres in addi- 

 tion to developing large power projects. 

 Practically the whole forest is timbered. 

 The only treeless portions are a few alpine 

 areas on the crests of the higher moun- 

 tains, some lava beds, mountain meadows 

 scattered here and there, and brush land, the 

 result of fire. Of the entire forest, 70 per 



