

FORESTRY AND RELATED ITEiS OF INTEREST 

 Luring the sunner Forester Graves visited the Alaska 



It 'is with pleasure that the name of E.E.Oarter Is 

 a^ain seer, in the Jleld Prograna. Hr. Carter left 

 vice somo vears aO to teach in the Harvard Forest Sohool 

 but returned to the Washington office this summer. 



Volune XIII of the Forestry Quarterly contains an ar- 

 ticle on hardwood planting in the Owens Valley, by L.Z. 

 Larson. The lack of hardwoods on this ooast is so great 

 that anything *n the subject is of especial interest. 



This year sees the opening of tho first Sohool of For- 

 estry in China as a Department of the University of Hanking, 

 with three Chinese graduates of American forest schools as 

 instructors. 



Permission has been given by the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture to P.C.Redington and C.L.Hill to publish privately 

 their "Useful Hand-Book". 



Bulletin 243 of the Department of Agriculture on 

 Cone Beetles and their injury to sugar pine and western 

 yellow pine, is written by John M.lliller, well known on 

 this Porest where he was a ranger before his transfer to 

 the Bureau of Entomology. A number of copies of this 

 bulletin have been requested for distribution tn the 

 Slerrafe district rangers. 



The California Agricultural Experiment Station with 

 headquarters at Berkeley has issued a bulletin on 'Irriga- 

 tion and soil conditions in the Sierra Nevada foothills'* 

 which should be of value here. 



"California's Magazine" for July contains a nunber of 

 articles en forestry, including one by District 7or ester 

 EuBois on the national Forests of California. 



"north Woods" for August has an article by W.T.Ooz 

 on "Aeric.1 forest patrol", and the "National Monthly" for 

 August has one on "Sinecures in the Porest Set-vice **. Both 

 these articles cover unknown territory and should be of in- 

 terest. 



