NEWS AND NOTES 



Porestry Associate 



Much interest is being taken in the forth- 

 coming annual meeting of the Canadian 



f n 0r c7oria S Tc^o^tep"* ft 



Not for six years has the gathering been 

 held on the Pacific Coast. The Province of 

 British Columbia has just enacted a new 

 timber and forestry law and is adopting a 

 oroeressive attitude in regard to thereon- 

 servation and proper disposal of its inval- 

 liable timber wealth. Much concern is evi- 

 denced on the Coast in regard to the new 

 law and to modern methods of lumbering 

 and clearing the pulp wood off the limits. 

 \ conference on farm forestry will be one 

 of the features of the Seventh International 

 Dry Farming Congress, which will be held 

 in Lethbridge, Alta., from October 21 to 26. 

 Dr. A. R. Myers, of Moncton, N B set 

 out 40,000 white pine last spring and all are 

 thriving. The owner expects to plant 50,000 

 more this season and 100,000 more white pine 



early next spring. 



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Bov Scouts Aiding 



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Nearly 100 scoutmasters representing the 

 Boy Scouts of America in Pennsylvania, 

 have appointed five wardens to serve 

 the present year. . 



These scoutmasters are located m various 

 counties throughout Pennsylvania, and are 

 empowered to exercise to the full powers of 

 fire wardens should forest fires occur at any 

 point within their jurisdiction 



Members of the Boy ^out troops are 

 co-operating in the work of Preventing f ort 

 fires, and it is reported much valuable work 

 along this line has already been done by 1 



boys. , , 



These appointments have been made by 

 Robert S. Conklin, commissioner ot 

 estry of Pennsylvania, upon thj suggestion 

 of the executive offices of the Pennsylvania 

 Chestnut-tree Blight Commission The com- 

 mission was inspired to make this suggestion 

 by the great .value of th % se ces of the 

 Boy Scouts m detecting the Presence o 

 chestnut-tree blight, and in reporting the 



cation of the d \ seas ? d c ^ ee ^l nr ^ '^1 

 mission. National and State authorities have 



heartily commended the scouts for their i 

 terest in forest conservation. 



Sewall in Maine 



Tames W Sewall, formerly forestry mana- 

 Jr oT the Appleton & Sewall Co., of New 

 vLlTritv has oDened an office at Old Town, 

 Mane where Swill continue his business 

 nf the maooing or surveying of wild lands. 

 or the Stirnatfon of timber Mr. Appleton 

 has been in ill health for some time and the 



Sd ecid^to g jve 



the almost intact field force of the company. 



HWky Trees Killed 



Numerous magnificent hickory trees have 

 been killed by the pernicious hickory bark 

 borer in tne vicinity of New York Uty. it 

 has destroyed thousands of trees in Hie 

 central part of the State, while recent m- 

 vest i ?at ions show that it is at work in the 

 Hudson Valley, near Tivoli, and probably is 

 i n j ur i O us in numerous other places. n 

 seve re droughts of the last two or three 

 years have undoubtedly been favorable to the 

 development of the pest, since the vitality 

 of many o f t h e trees has been lowered, and 

 they have been thus rendered more suscep- 

 tible to at tack by insect enemies. 



Wireless in Forests 



-Wireless telegraph stations for use in 

 transmitting messages to rangers when for- 

 est fires are discovered are to be built on 

 summits in various sections of Vermont. 

 The first station is to be built on Mt. Pico, 

 ten mileg east of Rutland, a t an altitude of 

 ^^ feet 



Other stations will be erected on moun- 



tains to the north. 



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Forests in China 

 The United gtates Consu l ar Report says : 



Forestry is a subject in which the Chinese 

 J .^ ag there arg no f t 



_ Thg Qreat plaillf on wh h 

 ^ . g ^ ^^ had forests> bemg 



entirely of delta formation, and the moun- 

 tainous regions to the north and west were 

 denuded of thdr forests cent uries ago. The 



surface soil of these mountains has been 

 ^^ ^ ^ reforest th uld b 



difficulty. The only 

 M in * his consular district is F. 



Tien-Tsin Nursery Gardens, 

 interested in tree culture . H e 

 shade and ofnamenta i trees 

 but the goil of the Great p]ain 



is alkaline and comparatively few varieties 

 ^^ wil] flourish in it A British cor . 



porat ion engaged in minir.s. and shipping has 

 a concess j on f or co a l mining in the Kaiping 

 district, about eighty miles northwest of 

 Tien-Tsin. The surface of the region is 

 broken by hills from fifty to two hundred 

 feet high, which are absolutely bare of trees, 

 and the company has begun work of affores- 

 tation. It already has 1,000,000 young trees 

 growing, chiefly acacia, and is preparing to 

 establish a nursery for them on an extensive 

 scale. 



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