:> AMERICAN FORESTRY 



portune to mention the findings in ex- but the price is prohibitive as shown by 



periments with various forms of fire- the following quotations from a large 



fighting equipment. The abundance of manufactory of rubber goods, 



water in the many running streams of Large double horse pack bags, $30.00 



the Ozarks has stimulated efforts to de- to $40.00 per pair. 



vise means for its conveyance to fires. Small shoulder pack bags, $15.00 to 



Since packing is unknown on the forest $20.00 each. 



animals, metal tanks were soon aban- The method of the application of 

 doned. Collapsible canvas bags de- water, however, has been solved for 

 signed to be thrown over ordinary extinguishing burning logs, stumps, 

 Texas saddles and to be carried on a etc., safeguarding back fire line when 

 and impracticable through lack of pack within easy reach of a water supply, 

 man's shoulders have been the object For this purpose the standard Forest 

 of development. \Yhere water is Service canvas water bucket has been 

 plentiful there is no question as to the modified by the attachment of a can- 

 feasibility of conveying it in sufficient vas hood across three-fourths of the 

 quantities on horseback to be of im- top with perforated crescent-shaped 

 mense benefit in combating fires, but metal plates at the joint edge. With 

 the difficulty which has not been over- this contrivance, which is light and can 

 come is the prevention of leakage at be carried in great numbers to a fire, 

 seams and through the fabric itself, water can be readily applied as with a 

 Various weights of canvas, combina- garden sprinkling can. 

 tion of weights, water-proofing liquids, In making a fire line in hardwood 

 and methods of construction have all leaves two implements have proven 

 failed. It is essential that leakage be their worth, the ordinary so-called five- 

 prevented because during cold weather tined potato digger, hook or rake, 

 both man and beast must be dry. The which is a standard agricultural tool, 

 South African water bag, which has and the wood broom, a specially con- 

 proven its merit in the Forest Service, structed device made from second 

 is unsuited to the purpose since its ob- growth hickory or white oak. The 

 ject is to allow slow evaporation of its broom is formed by splitting the lower 

 contents for cooling purposes as in the end of the handle and spreading the 

 case of the earthen Mexican water bot- splits fanwise by means of wooden 

 tie. The only solution is a rubber bag bars and light wire to hold them. 



ELK FROM YELLOWSTONE PARK 



A 2 ,000 more people visited "During December, January, Febru- 



the Yellowstone Park in 1913 ary, and March, 538 elk were" captured 



than during the season of 1912, in the park near the northern entrance 



according to the report of the and shipped for stocking public parks 



Superintendent, recently made to Sec- and ranges as follows: SO to Kings 



retary Lane. The tourist travel has in- County, Wash.; 50 to Yakima County, 



creased 45 per cent since 1906, and was Wash. ; 40 to Garfield County, Wash. ; 



heavier in 1913 than ever before with 50 to Shasta County, Cal. ; 50 to Penn- 



tlu- exception of 1909, when the Lewis sylvania for Clinton and Clearfield 



and Clarke Exposition was held in counties; 50 to West Virginia; 80 to 



Po ,ftland. Arizona: 25 to Hot Springs, Va. ; 3 to 



.he winter conditions for wild City Park, Aberdeen. S. Dak. ; 4 to the 



game were .-igain sxcellent," says the City Park at Boston, Mass ; 6 to the 



Superintendent. "With plenty of grass, City Park at Spokane, Wash One 



remaining soft so they hundred were captured and shipped 



could i>;m through it to get food, the under direction of the Department of 



. deer, antelope and mountain sheep Agriculture, of which 25 went to Sun- 



I with but little loss." dance, Wyo. ; 25 to Estes Park. Colo.; 





