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RECREATION. 



ijjtyfttif, due to the fact that during the wait- 

 ,iiihe for the wood to accumulate corn- 

 interest must be charged. 

 6rder to make farming equally profit- 

 able with a pine plantation managed in 50 

 year, Rotation the farm rent must be at 

 Uagii, $1.28 under similar conditions. To 

 Of&M the results from a 60 year rotation, 

 the iflnual farm rent would have to be $1.51 

 ail atre ; and a rent of $1.61 must be de- 

 rived annually in order to make farming as 

 profitable as pine growing with a 70 year 

 rotation. 



What these calculations show is that 

 profit calculations in forestry are more com- 

 plicated than is usually realized and that 

 altogether it is the long run that makes 

 forest growing profitable. 



SEEDLINGS. 



It is becoming more and more necessary 

 that a substitute shall be found for spruce 

 in the paper making industry, and it is 

 probable that experiments will show many 

 trees which can be profitably utilized, thus 

 serving the double purpose of keeping the 

 industry alive and saving the spruce from 

 total destruction. The possibilities of 

 straw, corn stalks, and waste from sugar 

 cane, have not yet been exhausted, and the 

 prevention of waste has never had sufficient 

 attention. Spruce has so far established 

 itself as the pulp material par excellence, 

 that most manufacturers will hear of no 

 other. Nevertheless poplar, cottonwood, 

 hemlock, and even pine are being used, and 

 for the best paper a blend of other woods 

 is used in connection with spruce. In spite 

 of the present prejudice in favor of spruce 

 pulp, there are signs which point toward the 

 use of other pulps, with no admixture of 

 spruce at all.'— Exchange; 



The budget of the Prussian Forest Ad- 

 ministration for 1902 showed a surplus of 

 $1,000,000 above that of the preceding year. 

 For the year 1903 the receipts are estimated 

 at $22,0C@;000, the expenditures at $11,300,- 

 Opo. The profit of nearly $11,000,000 on 

 ^,000,000 acres is secured mainly on a cut 

 of wood of somewhat less than 320,000,000 

 cubic feet; yet over $1,000,000 comes from 

 other sources, pasturage, berries, game, etc. 

 In the expenditures, $60,000 figure for for- 

 estry schools and scientific investigations 

 and $700,000 for extraordinary outlays for 

 the year, mainly for purchase of additional 

 forest lands, the government buying up the 

 waste, deforested lands and reforesting 

 them. The revenues from the forestry de- 

 partment have grown continuously with 

 improved management and the net result 

 per acre is now nearly double what it was 

 30 years ago. 



A process is said to have been perfected 

 in England which vulcanizes, preserves 

 and seasons wood, and makes it extremely 

 hard without brittleness or a tendency to 

 split or crack. It is also claimed that the 

 wood thus treated is impervious to water, 

 and that the treatment is equally efficacious 

 for all kinds of wood. It renders soft 

 woods tough and hard. It includes a boil- 

 ing in saccharine substance until the pores 

 are filled with solid matter, after which the 

 moisture is evaporated at a high tempera- 

 ture. This treatment takes but little time, 

 and considerable material may be com- 

 pleted and ready for use daily. It is be- 

 lieved that the experiment will help solve 

 the question of the preservation of railway 

 ties. — Forestry and Irrigation. 



A number of States are planting trees 

 on waste lands and forming forest reserves. 

 In some cases the work is one of refores- 

 tation, and in others it is proposed to 

 make trees grow in regions like the sand 

 hills of Nebraska, which are unfit for 

 agriculture and may be made useful as for- 

 ested areas. 



In most of the New England States 

 there are large areas of waste land coming 

 up in white pine, which, if protected and 

 encouraged, will soon become valuable tim- 

 ber. 



Are you making up a list of books for 

 your winter reading? Do not fail to in- 

 clude Recreation. Nothing else will give 

 you so much pleasure for $1. If you care 

 for hunting, fishing, photography or na- 

 ture, you can get more joy out of Rec- 

 reation than from any other source except 

 an actual day afield. Send in your sub- 

 scription and those of your friends. 



"How do you do?" said the November 

 Wind, peering through the window at the 

 Beaver Hat. 



"First rate," said the Hat. "How are 

 you?" 



"Fine !" said the Wind. "Come out and 

 I'll blow you off." — Judge. 



An exchange has developed the biggest 

 trust on earth. It is the country news- 

 paper. It trusts everybody, gets cussed for 

 trusting, mistrusted for cussing, and if it 

 busts for trusting, gets cussed for busting. 

 So there you are. 



Mary had a little lamb, 



Just thirty years ago ; 

 The chops we had for lunch today 



Were from that lamb, I know. 



— Exchange. 



