FOREST NOTES 



905 



was allotted to this State. This co- 

 operative fund made possible the addi- 

 tion of nine men to the State's patrol 

 force, four of the Federal patrolmen 

 being stationed in the Upper Peninsula 

 and five in the Lower Peninsula. 

 Owing to delay in getting the work 

 started, only a portion of the cooperative 

 fund will be used. 



helped \ to make this a success. Other 

 features of the Exhibit were Hickory 

 and Birch Utilization. 



The New York State College of For- 

 estry at Syracuse University is the 

 first College in the country to employ 

 a full Professor to devote all his time to 

 Forest Entomology and another to 

 give all of his time to Forest Zoology. 

 This is believed to be prophetic of the 

 time when these subjects will be recog- 

 nized as of large importance in For- 

 estry and when they will receive the 

 attention which has long been given to 

 them in Europe. This action on the 

 part of the College is in line with its 

 efforts to make it possible for men to 

 specialize through the four years of 

 work in Forest Entomology and Zoology. 



Ch. Guengerich, of Joplin, Missouri, 

 writes: "I read with great interest the 

 article on Roadside Tree law in your 

 September number. Formerly our Board 

 paid attention to trees along our roads 

 by planting and trimming, but telephone 

 and power lines destroyed so many trees 

 that we gave up in despair. At the 

 last session of the Legislature we tried 

 for a law restricting the use of highway 

 right of way by these pole lines to the 

 north and east side of roads, since we 

 have to have these lines, and shade on 

 the south and west sides would be most 

 desirable. We aim to try again this 

 year for such a law." 



The Department of Forestry of Penn- 

 sylvania State College arranged an 

 exhibition for the Forestry Section of 

 the Agricultural School held November 

 13 and 14 which had two distinct 

 features, Farm Forestry and Utilization. 

 For the first, there was demonstrated 

 the preparation of a farm nursery even 

 to the germination, the growing seed- 

 lings, the transplants, and planting out. 

 A miniature creosoting model suitable 

 for farm purposes and growth figures 

 for growing fence posts constituted the 

 rest of the Farm Forestry Exhibit. 

 For Utilization there was a fine exhibit 

 of Hemlock, using the tape method of 

 following out the products from the 

 different parts of the tree. The school 

 showed Utilization of practically every- 

 thing that goes to the mill and including 

 the waste in the woods. The Central 

 Pennsylvania Lumber Company, the 

 Oak Tanning Company, the Bayless 

 Paper and Pulp Company, the Standard 

 Wood Company and Wheeler and 

 Dusenbury, all of Pennsylvania, and 

 the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood 

 Association through Mr. R. S. Kellogg, 



The settlement and development of 

 the west does not appear to have greatly 

 reduced the number of animals which 

 prey upon domestic live stock, and the 

 loss from that source alone runs into the 

 millions of dollars each year. Within 

 the forests, however, the number of 

 domestic animals killed has been ap- 

 preciably reduced by the campaign 

 against wild animals waged by the 

 officers of the Forest Service. During 

 the past eight years forest officers have 

 killed over thirty-five thousand preda- 

 tory animals, consisting of coyotes, 

 wolves, bear, mountain lion, wild cats, 

 lynx, etc. 



The State Board of Trade of West 

 Virginia at its last meeting passed a 

 resolution favoring the passage of legis- 

 lation for forest conservation and in- 

 structing the committee on Develop- 

 ment and Protection of State Resources 

 to draft such legislation as it may deem 

 desirable to aid in securing the passage 

 of suitable forestry legislation by the 

 next Legislature. 



One of two features of special interest 

 in the course in Lumbering this year 

 in the Department of Forestry at the 

 Pennsylvania State College is the intro- 

 duction of a current event day each 

 week at which time each member of the 



