Cancididn Forcslrij Joiirndl, Maij, I HI 



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of leaves where Ihey are allaclied to 

 the branch, and count that Httle 

 chister held to.<>ether at the base by a 

 small sheath — if there are hve needles 

 it is almost sure to be a white pine — 

 and even if not, ((his disease only 

 attacks live-leaved pines) it should 

 be reported nevertheless. 



During May and June, rarely after 

 the middle of June, the disease is 

 most conspicuous on the pine. The 

 formerly smooth dark green bark 

 will be found swollen, puffed up, 

 "blistered," and breaking through 

 the bark will be seen small whitish- 

 orange scale-like bodies of a dusty 

 lloury appearance, composed of the 

 spores or seeds of the disease. There 

 may be a few or many at each point 

 of infection. Often times one can 

 see these from a short distance. They 

 may be on any young branch or on 

 the older wood, but they disappear 

 after June, and only the blister re- 

 mains, though far less pronounced 

 to the casual observer. 



Where the scales had been are 

 often small drops of resin, or gum in 

 the popular phrase, though these are 

 not always present, — for may be 

 present from other causes), — since 

 even mechanical injuries to the bark, 

 such as scjuirrel bites, etc., will cause 

 gumming. In time, this bark be- 

 comes rough and cracked, the disease 

 slowly makes progress up and down, 

 or around the limb or stem, and kills 

 the branch, or the tree if it has girdled 

 the stem; or the wounded area may 

 give rise to another series of spores, 

 but at no other time of the year 

 except May or June, will the spores 

 be seen. In old pines the disease 

 may live for years; young pines will 

 succumb as soon as the main stem 

 has been girdled. 



The symptoms should be carefully 

 borne in mind, and always looked for, 

 when one is in the woods in May and 

 June." 



Anyone noticing symptoms of the 

 disease on white pine ought to notify 

 at once the Provincial Forester, To- 

 ronto, Ont.; Provincial Forester, Que- 

 bec; Minister of Lands, Fredericton, 

 N.B.; F. A. Harrison, Deputy Com- 

 missioner, Parliament Buildings, Hali- 

 fax, N.S.; the Dominion Forestry 

 Branch for infections in Manitoba, 



Saskatchewan and Alberta; the Pro- 

 vincial Forester, X'ictoria, British 

 (Columbia. The white pine area from 

 the western boundary of Ontario to 

 the Pacific is very small, and no con- 

 tamination there has been reported 

 thus far. The chief white pine sec- 

 tions are in Eastern and Northern 

 Ontario and Western Quebec and 

 throui?h New Brunswick. 



TREE FALLS, KILLING 11 



One of the worst accidents in the 

 history of logging in the Pacific North- 

 west occurred ALarch 2'A, at the opera- 

 tion of the North Bank Logging Co., 

 Grays River, Wash., when eight men 

 met instant death and 15 others were 

 injured, three of whom later died. 

 The logging crew^ was returning to 

 camp for dinner at noon, standing 

 and sitting on two flat cars. An 18- 

 inch hemlock tree, uprooted by the 

 high wind; fell across the head end 

 of the first car, sweeping the men off 

 the cars before the train could be 

 halted. The injured men w^ere hur- 

 ried to Astoria. Of the men in the 

 hospital on April 10, all seemed sure 

 of recovery with one possible excep- 

 tion. 



DECAY OF FIR 



A detailed investigation of the rate 

 of decay in mature stands of Douglas 

 fir will be undertaken within a few 

 weeks by Dr. E. P. Meinecke, of 

 San Francisco, pathologist assigned 

 to the Forest Service by the Bureau 

 of Pathology. How decay attacks 

 the tree and how it progresses will 

 form an important part of the in- 

 vestigation, which will be carried on 

 in several districts in Washington 

 and Oregon. 



COMPULSORY PATROL 



Some amendments to the Wash- 

 ington forest fire law will probably 

 be offered at the forthcoming session 

 of the legislature. The compulsory 

 patrol system in force in Oregon has 

 worked out very satisfactorily and 

 will probably be adopted, by other 

 Pacific Coast states. 



