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When he gets this place improved and 

 restocked, he proposes to buy another 

 and keep at it. 



Of two million sheep annually grazed 

 in the State of Utah, more than a 

 million are on the National Forests, or, 

 including lambs which are fattening for 

 market on the forest ranges, over a 

 million and three-quarters. 



Dr. Harry P. Brown, Assistant Profes- 

 sor of Forest Botany in The New York 

 State College of Forestry, has published 

 a paper in the January number of 

 Mycologia treating of a peculiar timber 

 rot of oak and chestnut. The decay 

 is caused by Hymenochaete rubiginosa 

 (Sch.) Lev. The rot first manifests 

 itself through the formation of white 

 areas in the wood, separated by sound 

 tissue. Later, pockets are formed which 

 have a white lining. The decay is 

 quite similar to that of oak caused by 

 Stereum frustulosum (pers.) Fr. 



The Boise national forest in Idaho 

 had 30 fires during the past summer, yet 

 28 were held down to less than 10 

 acres, and of these 15 were less than 

 one-quarter of an acre. The supervisor 

 says this success was due to a lookout 

 tower, and to efficient telephone and 

 heliograph service. 



Because of the war, English manu- 

 facturers and consumers of wood pulp 

 have been caused considerable uneasi- 

 ness. Production is at a standstill in 

 the countries at war, and in Norway 

 and Sweden, principal sources of supply, 

 mills have been greatly hampered be- 

 cause of a lack of coal and of chemicals. 

 England has practically no domestic 

 sources of pulp. 



Black Hills white spruce has entered 

 the market as a commercial possibility. 

 After a series of experiments the spruce 

 has proven itself of value for mining 

 timbers in the coal mines of Cambria, 

 Wyoming, and as a result several min- 

 ing timber contractors have entered 

 into contracts with the Forest Service 

 for the purchase of white spruce from 

 the Black Hills National Forest. 



The Department of Forest Botany 

 at The New York State College of 

 Forestry is engaged in the classifying 

 of the collections of forest fungi which 

 were secured at the Slimmer Camp of 

 1914 in the Catskills. Diseased plants 

 fungi and specimens of wood which 

 show fungous decay are being prepared 

 for museum purposes and for studies in 

 connection with the decay of timber. 



The forest fire season in the 28 square 

 miles included within the boundaries 

 of the city of Fitchburg, Mass., ended 

 November 14. For the twelve months 

 preceding this date the precipitation 

 was 13 inches less than the normal. A 

 continuous drought occurred beginning 

 late in August and lasting 47 days. 

 During the entire season there occurred 

 69 fires in the timber, sprout and brush 

 lands of the outlying districts. The 

 total area burned amounted to 127 

 acres. The cost of extinction was $649.- 

 71. The entire fire damage amounted 

 to $44.00. All fires were extinguished 

 by expert forest protective methods, 

 most of them before they exceeded the 

 light surface stage. Fires that developed 

 into deep ground burns or into top 

 fires were kept absolutely restricted to 

 very small areas until entirely extin- 

 guished. 



The annual meeting of the Massa- 

 chusetts Forestry Association held in 

 Boston on December 10 was very well 

 attended. The Association honored 

 Mr. Allen Chamberlain by making him 

 a patron, the fee of $1,000 being con- 

 tributed in small amounts by about 

 two hundred members in recognition 

 of Mr. Chamberlain's admirable work 

 for forest conservation. Interesting 

 addresses were delivered by Mr. Cham- 

 berlain on the present status of the new 

 national forest in New Hampshire; by 

 Arthur A. Shurtleff on the Esthetic and 

 Recreational Possibilities of Town For- 

 ests ; by Secretary Harris A. Reynolds on 

 Economics of Town Forests and by Wm. 

 W. Colton on the management and 

 Development of the Town Forest. The 

 officers elected are : President, Nathaniel 

 T. Kidder of Milton; vice-presidents, 

 Berkshire Heloise Meyer, Lenox; Bris- 

 tolWilliam E. Fuller, Jr., Fall River; 



