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pulp without lowering the grade of the season this drawback practically dis- 



paper produced. It is known that with 

 balsam logs left lying in water over a 



BALSAM FIR. 



ABOUT THIRTY YEARS OLD, 30 FEET HIGH, 7 

 INCHES DIAMETER 



appears. 



In chemical pulp, produced through 

 the action of acids, these acids are 

 known to dissolve the pitch, and any 

 amount of balsam can be used, though 

 some claim that too much balsam in the 

 pulp gives a paper that lacks strength, 

 snap, and character. 



At the present time, balsam fir fur- 

 nishes about six or seven per cent of 

 the domestic coniferous wood used by 

 the country's pulp industry. The tree 

 itself constitutes, numerically, about 

 twenty per cent of the coniferous forest 

 in northern New York and Maine, and 

 is abundant in many parts of New 

 Hampshire, Vermont, and in the 

 swamps of northern Michigan, northern 

 Wisconsin, and Minnesota. It readily 

 reforests cut-over areas, and attains a 

 size suitable for pulp wood in a short 

 time. 



Under present methods of cutting, 

 balsam fir is said to be increasing in 

 our second-growth forests at the ex- 

 pense of red spruce, and with the grad- 

 ual decline in the supply of the latter 

 wood the fir will become more and 

 more important commercially. 



AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



FORESTRY 



* DITOR AMERICAN 



H Dear Sir: 



j On page 382, AMERICAN FOR- 

 ESTRY for May, you most kindly 

 gave editorial notice of a meeting at 

 Harrisburg club rooms on May 4, when 

 a loving cup and other evidences of 

 most friendly interest were presented 

 to me. 



May I place myself further in your 

 debt by making in AMERICAN FORESTRY 

 acknowledgment to the friends who 

 were present at that meeting, and to 

 those who could not be there, of my 



profound gratitude for their apprecia- 

 tion of what I have tried for thirty- 

 seven years to do for the forests and 

 associated interests of the country. 



It is not given to every public servant 

 to receive such recognition, nor has any 

 one a right to expect it ; but when it is 

 given, it should be thankfully received 

 and kept perpetually in memory as "a 

 crown of rejoicing" and as a stimulus 

 to renewed and more productive effort. 

 Gratefully yours, 



J. T. ROTHROCK. 



Controlling Sand Dunes. 



The forest service has been requested to cooperate with the port authorities of Coos 

 Bay, Washington, in planting to control shifting sand dunes. 



