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offer prices slightly higher than 

 those obtained for cubic metres of 

 fuel. May this special production 

 become more and more popular in 

 operations where thinnings are 

 made regularly on a large scale. 



Oak Bark Soars. 



Before the war operations in oak 

 bark had fallen into disfavor, as our 

 peasant woodsmen were receiving 

 only from 8 to 9 francs per hundred 

 kilograms f. o. b. In May, 1914, the 

 price had reached from 18 to 20 

 francs, for importation from France 

 and Austria-Hungary was suspend- 

 ed at the beginning of hostilities. 

 We expect to see these prices rise 

 still higher next season, but we have 

 no illusions but that as soon as 

 peace is signed, our life resumed and 

 the open frontiers will allow com- 

 mercial exchange, that our tanners 

 will return to their old love and will 

 turn to those who will give them 

 tanning material at from 8 to 9 

 francs f. o. b. at a Swiss railway sta- 

 tion. It is coppices of the Haute- 

 Saone and neighboring regions that 

 will profit by this, and all that re- 

 mains to be done is for the Swiss 

 foresters to contiime the steadv con- 

 versions intn high mixed forest of 

 our last traces of coppices, for do 

 not let us forget that Switzerland 

 should work to increase its forest 

 area, which will make us less and 

 less dependent on the output of 

 foreign nations. 



by this commission which contains 

 in its analysis of the situation the 

 following: 



"European nations early recog- 

 nized the need of adopting methods 

 to avoid forest waste. With us, on 

 the contrary, our splendid forest 

 wealth has been needlessly squan- 

 dered. Through error and lack of 

 grasp, a greater proportion of our 

 developing need passed from public 



to private ownership. This fault 

 can not be answered or cured by 

 placing the blame at the door of 

 speculative greed. While we were 

 evolving our political and industrial 

 destiny, the majestic forest wealth 

 of the nation remained unprotected 

 and uncared for. This great na- 

 tional asset seemed limitless. The 

 time has come when the dictates of 

 prudence and a' better understand- 

 ing of national need impel a survey • 

 to be made of our remaining tree 

 supply, to the end that a more ra- 

 tional national policy be worked 

 out. Although we speak for the in- 

 dustry, it is our hope that the com- 

 mission will feel and believe that 

 our effort is in accordance with pub- 

 lic interest. 



Prudence Points the Way 



L. C. Boyle of Kansas Citv, filed 

 with the Federal Trade Commission 

 the first volume of his brief in the 

 first important general investigation 



Course in Logging Engineering 



Arrangements for the course in 

 forest or logging engineering at the 

 University of California are com- 

 pleted and instruction will com- 

 mence at the opening of the next 

 college year in August. The course 

 will require four years for comple- 

 tion, but all phases of the work will 

 be taught from the start, so that any 

 students who desire to shift from 

 other lines of work may do so with- 

 out delay. 



The object of the course is to 

 train men along lines somewhat 

 parallel to civil, mechanical and 

 electrical engineering, but special- 

 ized toward work in the lumber in- 

 dustrv. — The Lumberman. 



