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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



sale purposes during the year, on which there 

 was an estimated stand of 560,000,000 feet. 



Land classification is carried on by the 

 Forest Branch for the following three-fold 

 object: (1) To prevent alienation of land 

 valuable chiefly for timber. (2) To make 

 available for settlement all areas suitable for 

 agriculture. (3) To hold under reserve lands 

 which are unfitted for agriculture. The 

 area which has been so classified during the 

 past year is close to half a million acres, of 

 which 170,000 acres have been reserved, 



carrying a stand of timber of approximately 

 one billion feet. 



On the first of January the B. C. Log Scale 

 came into use over the entire Province, in 

 accordance with the Provisions of the Royalty 

 Act. This rule has been in use for a number of 

 years on the Coast, but the Doyle Rule has 

 been, until now, the accepted rule for that 

 portion of the Province east of the Cascade 

 Mountains. This change will make a uniform 

 scale available for the whole Province, and will 

 appreciably increase the log scale for the 

 Interior. 



FOREST NOTES 



The Minnesota House and Senate Com- 

 mittees have recommended for passage a bill 

 providing $20,000 a year for two years to pur- 

 chase land for improving the City Park, the 

 plan being to supplement the present park 

 system by a great municipal forest or forest 

 park. The Jay Cooke estate has turned over 

 to the State 2,500 acres of forest land for use 

 as a park by the city of Duluth and it is 

 proposed to acquire, 3,500 acres adjoining 

 this tract, which is valueless for general 

 agricultural purposes. The plan is to use this 

 Municipal Forest for camping, rest and recrea- 

 tion and to manage it by the most approved 

 forestry methods with the thought that in 

 time it may become as valuable an asset to the 

 City as are some of the German Municipal 

 Forests. One plan is to have homes in the 

 forest for the families of workingmen, homes 

 that may be had for a nominal rent and where 

 the City would have control of every arrange- 

 ment which might tend to make such places 

 most desirable in every way. A number of 

 the leading residents of the city are most 

 enthusiastic over the plan and the possibility 

 of its being adopted. 



fur collar and a gray hat. He is a member of 

 the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. 



The E. B. Eddy Company of Hull, Canada, 

 match manufacturer, is aiding in the work of 

 forest fire protection, by printing on their 

 match boxes a circular design in three colors, 

 red, green and white, bearing the words: 

 "Safety First Applied to Fire Do Not Throw 

 Away Burning Matches Especially In The 

 Woods." Underneath the design is the 

 statement that it is printed by request of the 

 Dominion Government. 



Purley D. Bailey, a young Forester, and 

 son of Prof. George D. Bailey of Cazenovia, 

 N. Y., disappeared on March 8, and foresters 

 are asked by his anxious father to aid in the 

 search for him. The young man, who was 

 suffering from nervous trouble, left his home 

 to go to Syracuse for a treatment and has 

 since then been missing. He is 5 feet 6 inches 

 tall, complexion deeply tanned, brown hair 

 and brown eyes. He wore a gray suit, mixed 

 gray and black shaggy overcoat with brown 



The Class in Lumbering of the New York 

 State College of Forestry under Professor 

 Nelson C. Brown has returned from the trip 

 to several logging and milling operations in the 

 Adirondacks, including Conifer, Cranberry 

 Lake, Piercefield and McKeever. A careful 

 investigation and study were made of the log- 

 ging operations of the Emporium Forestry 

 Company on their 85,000-acre tract in St. 

 Lawrence county and their sawmill and yards 

 at Conifer near Childwold. 



The third annual session of The New York 

 State Ranger School at Wanakena, N. Y. has 

 opened under the direction of Professor 

 E. F. McCarthy. Twenty-two students have 

 enrolled for the one year course of instruction 

 in forestry and are now actively engaged in 

 practical forestry work in the field. 



Arbor and Highway Day in Maryland, 

 April 9, has this year a special significance, 

 because it is the first anniversary of the passage 

 of the Roadside Tree Law by the Legislature 

 of 1914. This law places all trees now growing 

 beside the roadways or along the streets of 

 incorporated towns under the supervision of 

 the State. In addition to the care and protec- 

 tion of existing trees, the law provides for the 

 planting of new ones. 



The State has spent approximately 

 $15,000,000 in constructing improved roads 

 which compare favorably with any in the 

 country. The next step in their improvement 

 is to beautify them and make them more 

 attractive by the planting of shade trees. 

 What is more attractive than a well-shaded 

 street or roadway, particularly if the trees are 

 uniform in size and kind, giving a distinctive 

 character that cannot be obtained except by 

 systematic effort and the execution of carefully 

 thought out and well executed plans? The 

 State Board of Forestry, which is charged with 

 the administration of the Roadside Tree Law, 

 is prepared to cooperate with towns, associa- 

 tions and individuals in the work of planting 

 trees along the streets and highways. 



