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THE IKRIGATION AGE. 



FOREST NOTES 



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It has been demonstrated that over- 

 grazed stock ranges on the national 

 forests can be brought back to use 

 under a system of regulated grazing 

 faster than if they are left unused. 



The American forestry association 

 has members in every state in the 

 union, in every province in Canada, 

 and in every civilized and semi-civil- 

 ized country in the world. 



Makers of phonographs are aiming 

 to use wood instead of metal in all 

 parts of the instrument where this is 

 possible, in order to increase the mel- 

 lowness of the tone. 



On the Pocatello forest, Idaho, 230,- 

 000 trees were planted during the past 

 year, and almost half a million in the 

 past three years, fully three-fourths 

 of which are alive and doing well. 



Experiments in the use of aspen for 

 shingles show that the shingles do 

 not check in seasoning, and that they 

 turn water satisfactorily, but that they 

 are too easily broken in handling. 



There are somewhat more than 500 

 recognized tree species in the United 

 States, of which about 100 are com- 

 mercially important for timber. Of 

 the 500 recognized species, 300 are 

 represented in the government's newly 

 acquired Appalachian forests. All 

 American species, except a very few 

 subtropical ones on the Florida keys 

 and in extreme southern Texas, are to 

 be found in one or another of the na- 

 tional forests. 



A rancher has applied for the rental 

 of 320 acres on the Pike national for- 

 est, Colorado, to be used in connec- 

 tion with other private land, for rais- 

 ing elk as a commercial venture. 



The government has just sold 43,000 

 cords of cedar wood for shingles from 

 the Washington national forest. The 

 shingles manufactured from this 

 wood, laid six inches to the weather, 

 would cover 2^ square miles of roof. 



The navy department has asked the 

 forest service to investigate guijo, a 

 Philippine wood, for possible use in 

 decking boats and ships. Longleaf 

 pine, sugar maple, and beech a r e the 

 domestic woods most us* d for decks. 



The state university lands in Ari- 

 zona are to be lumbered under a co- 

 operative agreement between the gov- 

 ernment and the state land commis- 

 sion. Arizona is the first state in the 

 southwest and one of few in the coun- 

 try to cut its timbered lands on for- 

 estry principles. 



The annual meeting of the Ame r - 

 ican Forestry Association was held in 

 Washington on January 14. A presi- 

 dent, twenty-one vice-presidents, a 

 treasurer, an auditor and five directors 

 were elected and plans made for an 

 active campaign for forest conserva- 

 tion during 1914. The association has 

 8,000 members. 



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