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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Co., Ltd., Montreal, Quebec; Horton 

 Corwin, Jr., Branning Mfg. Co., Eden- 

 ton, N. C. 



The Advisory Committee to repre- 

 sent this Association to the American 

 Forestry Association is composed of 

 R. C. Lippincott, Chairman, Crozer 

 Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa.; John M. 

 Woods, John M. Woods & Co., Boston, 

 Mass. ; R. L. Sisson, A. Sherman Lum- 

 ber Company, Potsdam, N. Y. 



At the request of Senator Thomas 

 and Representative Taylor, of Colorado, 

 the President has withdrawn from entry 

 numerous tracts of lands lying west 

 of the City of Denver, pending the 

 passage of two bills in Congress, whose 

 passage has been recommended by Sec- 

 retary Lane, to extend the park plan 

 of Denver. The purpose is to beautify 

 these tracts for use as one of the scenic 

 features of the city. A boulevard is to 

 be constructed by the city to the land. 

 The proposed legislation will add 9,000 

 acres to the Pike National Forest and 

 grant 7,000 acres to the city. 



Among the exhibits at the Forest 

 Products Exposition in Chicago was 

 one of a metal basket for the feeding 

 of wild birds which attracted much at- 

 tention from the many interested in 

 the preservation of the birds. It was 

 invented by Charles E. White and is 

 intended particularly for feeding suet 

 or other fats which are so tempting to 

 wild birds. The basket is so arranged 

 that it can readily be fastened to a tree 

 and easily refilled, and it permits the 

 birds to get their fill of the food with- 

 out being able to carry away large 

 pieces of it. It is proving most ef- 

 fective in coaxing wild birds to remain 

 in localities where they are desired. 



Students of the New York State Col- 

 lege of Forestry at Syracuse during the 

 past spring have planted as a part of 

 their laboratory work over 100,000 for- 

 est trees ; 55,000 trees were planted at 

 Richland and Kasoag in Oswego Coun- 

 ty ; 20,000 were put out on the Chitte- 



nango Forest Station at North Chitte- 

 nango ; 16,000 on the Salamanca Forest 

 Station, and 12,000 were planted around 

 the City Reservoir at Fayetteville. 

 Thirty college boys planted 55,000 trees 

 at Richland in a little less than three 

 days. 



Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr., one of the 

 leading American foresters of the 

 younger group, has a 37-page paper on 

 "Austrian Forestry" in the last number 

 of the "Society of American Foresters' 

 Proceedings." This paper is finely 

 illustrated, very complete and full of 

 value for Americans. 



Ground has just been broken for the 

 State Forestry Building on the Campus 

 of Syracuse University. In 1913 the 

 State appropriated $250,000 for the 

 State Forestry Building for the State 

 College of Forestry, and it is expected 

 that it will be ready for occupancy in 

 the summer of 1915. The building 

 when completed will be the finest For- 

 estry building in the United States and 

 the only building erected by any Statt 

 east of the Mississippi as a State For- 

 estry building. 



A special wood rule, known as a 

 Biltmore or Cruiser stick, is now being 

 used extensively in government forestry 

 work. There are four or five different 

 styles of this stick in use, but in form 

 most of them are similar to common 

 flat wood rules, though some have one 

 beveled face. They range in length 

 from two to four feet and are made by 

 the Lufkin Rule Co., of Saginaw, Mich. 

 Some of them are simply adapted to 

 determining the diameter of standing 

 trees and some of them are so graduated 

 that in addition to giving diameters, 

 they can be used to estimate the height 

 of standing trees and have also one 

 tier of log rule figures on them, so that 

 board contents of logs 16 feet or multi- 

 ples thereof in length can be arrived at. 



North Carolina is issuing separate 

 reports of the forest resources of each 



