FOREST NOTES 



On May 27 occurred the wedding of Mr. 

 William Robinson Brown of Berlin, N. H., 

 and Miss Hildreth Burton Smith of Atlanta, 

 Ga., at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Orton B. 

 Brown at Berlin, N. H. Mr. Brown is a 

 director and member of the Executive Board 

 of the American Forestry Association, a 

 member of the New Hampshire Forestry 

 Commission and of other forestry and forest 

 fire protective organizations. He is part 

 owner and assistant treasurer of the Berlin 

 Mills Pulp and Paper Company. The bride 

 is the granddaughter of Gen. John B. Gordon, 

 the famous Confederate leader and the 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Smith of 

 Atlanta. 



The University of Washington Forest Club 

 Annual for 1915, being Vol. 3 of the series is 

 now being distributed. It is an admirable 

 publication, well printed, well illustrated and 

 with a considerable variety of well written 

 articles on forestry. The Annual is dedicated 

 to Edmond S. Meany, the first man to foster 

 and teach forestry at the University of 

 Washington. The contributors are Fred Mad- 

 igan, Burt P. Kirkland. Prof. Hugo Winken- 

 werder, Joseph Morgan, Donald H. Clark, 

 Edward J. Hanzlik, Elias S. Clark, and Dan 

 McNeil. The committee having in charge 

 the production of the Annual comprised 

 Harold A. Browning, Arthur Bevan, Willis 

 Corbitt, and Donald Clark. 



The Seniors of the Penn State Department 

 of Forestry have just returned from their 

 spring camp in Breathett Co., Ky. The 

 work was largely carried out on the tracts of 

 The Mowbray & Robinson Co., specialists in 

 hardwoods. 



that a beginning on the work may be made in 

 the very near future. 



The Sophomores of the Department of 

 Forestry at Penn State, previous to the opening 

 of the regular summer camp in the Seven 

 Mountains, MacAlevy's Fort, Penn., are 

 with the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Co., 

 at Laquin, Pa. 



The work consists of a general introduction 

 to logging, bark peeling, and milling and 

 about a week's work in mill scale studies. 



Interesting side trips have been made to 

 the Barclay Chemical Company plant, The 

 Penn Stave Company's mill and Schroder 

 Wood Company's kindling wood factory. En 

 route to Laquin the Paper Mills of the New 

 York & Pennsylvania Paper Company were 

 visited, also the J. K. Rishel furniture factory 

 and the big C. P. S. Company's mills at 

 Williamsport. 



Active steps are now being taken by the 

 Bureaus of Public Works and Forestry in 

 Manila to cooperate in a tree-planting scheme 

 for planting trees along the public roads 

 throughout the Islands. Several conferences 

 have been held between the representatives 

 of the two bureaus concerned and it is hoped 



The Bureau of Forestry of the Philippine 

 Islands is taking up, as one of-the most vigorous 

 lines of work for the present year, the inaugura- 

 tion of an active campaign to more intimately 

 acquaint the great body of people throughout 

 the Islands with the possibilities and methods 

 of forest conservation, the benefits which they 

 will receive from such work and the harm 

 which will inevitably occur if these resources 

 are neglected or destroyed. 



A review of the State work undertaken 

 and carried out by the Maryland Board of 

 Forestry for the spring of 1915 shows that the 

 supply of planting stock at the Forest Nursery 

 established one year ago was practically 

 exhausted in sales made to residents of Mary- 

 land, and the size of the nursery proper in- 

 creased 65 per cent through plans made for 

 supplying standard varieties of forest trees 

 at cost a year hence; that a total of 4 miles of 

 State highway in as many different counties 

 was planted up with attractive and appropriate 

 roadside trees furnished free from the Nursery 

 to abutting property owners, and the work 

 of supervision likewise given at no cost to 

 them; while in addition to the foregoing a 

 considerable amount of planting was done 

 under direct supervision of the State Forester 

 and his assistants for afforestation of waste 

 and abandoned farm lands, ornamental and 

 protective planting. 



The State Forest Service during the coming 

 season will continue to further the improve- 

 ment of Maryland's highways through the 

 restrictive and careful cutting and pruning of 

 all publicly owned trees, and will also sum up 

 and complete several phases of its work which 

 have been undertaken in seasons past, paying 

 particular attention to the cooperative handling 

 of privately held timber lands for purposes 

 of demonstrating the possibilities of good 

 forestry. 



That jack pine is admirably suited for re- 

 foresting many of the dry. sandy regions of the 

 North Central States is the conclusion of a 

 new publication of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Bulletin No. 212, "Observations on the 

 Pathology of the Jack Pine." This tree, it is 

 said, suffers only occasionally from winter 

 injury, stands drought well, and is compar- 

 atively free from a number of diseases which 

 are commonly found on other coniferous trees. 

 The pine is, however, sensitive to heat. The 

 most important fungous disease from which 

 the jack pine suffers is done by the Peridermium 

 cerebrum, which in many localities presents a 

 somewhat serious problem. The fungus at- 

 tacks trees of all ages, frequently killing the 

 young ones and seriously interfering with the 

 development of those which survive. The 

 removal of infected branches from young 



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