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can get them from that company without charge. They 

 have even promised to have the flags displayed wherever 

 they have a local oflice, if the flags and pole are provided 

 by the people. This is a step that other telephone exchanges 

 should consider, and which the public in general will not be 

 slow to appreciate. 



Letters of inquiry directed to J. Warren Smith, Director 

 New England Weather Service, Post-office Building, Bos- 

 ton, will receive attention. 



Nails for Markixg Trees for Preservation. 

 In order to get an idea of the extent of the interest taken 

 by the several towns in the recent law providing for the 

 marking of trees for preservation, and also to call attention 

 to this law, the following question was asked, "Has your 

 town taken advantage of the law providing for the supply- 

 ing of nails for marking trees for preservation ? " The intent 

 of this question was to bring the provisions of the law to 

 the attention of the readers of this bulletin. Chapter 196 

 of the Acts of 1890, as amended by chapter 49, Acts of 

 1891, and chapter 147, Acts of 1892, is an act relative to 

 preserving ornamental and shade trees on the highways. 

 By this act the mayors and aldermen of the cities and the 

 selectmen of towns are authorized to designate and preserve 

 trees within the limits of the highways for the purposes of 

 ornament and shade, by driving into the same, on the side 

 toward the centre of the highway, a nail or spike with a head 

 with the letter M plainly impressed upon it ; said nails or 

 spikes to be procured and furnished by the secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture to said mayor and aldermen and 

 selectmen, as required by them for the purposes of the act. 

 Suitable nails, of three sizes, 21, 2|, 3^ inches in length, 

 have been procured, and to date have been furnished, upon 

 request, to nineteen towns. 



