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this product of the Western forests extensively. 

 It is shipped from California to Japan, China, 

 Hawaii and England. In those countries it is 

 used for building purposes. Great quantities of 

 shingles are made from the wood, and it is used 

 for coffins, door jambs, rails, wainscotting, win- 

 dow sashes and similar house fittings. 



"The wood should be more popular than it is," 

 said a dealer, "because the best quality is cheaper 

 than the best pine. It would be more in demand 

 if the dealers in the Far West paid more atten- 

 tion to the Eastern market, but they prefer to 

 sell to China and Japan." — Exchange. 



If the trust is formed for the purpose 

 of managing the remnant of the limited 

 supply of redwood conservatively, we wel- 

 come it. Even if it means raising prices 

 it would be a proper movement because 

 such rise of price is necessary to make 

 conservative lumbering possible. The 

 present wasteful methods by which hardly 

 30 per cent, of the wood in the forest 

 reaches the market are at least in part 

 chargeable to the low price for the ma- 

 terial, which does not permit a closer 

 utilization. 



PROFESSIONAL FORESTERS INCREASING. 



The Philippine Forestry Bureau has 

 made a raid on the professionally educated 

 foresters in this country. The New York 

 State College of Forestry has lost 2 of its 

 senior students, Messrs. Clark and 

 Klemme, who were sufficiently advanced 

 in their studies to pass the Civil Service 

 examination, and Mr. Hagger, its forest 

 manager from the College Forest, and its 

 first graduate, who leaves a position with 

 the New York State Forest, Fish and 

 Game Commission. Captain Geo. P. Ahern, 

 the chief of the Forestry Bureau, also se- 

 cured the services of 2 other foresters, 

 Messrs. Griffith and Hareford, and of Mr. 

 S. N. Neely, a civil engineer, formerly 

 employed by the United States Forestry 

 Division in timber and physics work, to 

 conduct a wood-testing laboratory. The 

 crop of foresters promises to grow more 

 rapidly in the future, the New York State 

 College of Forestry 'having this year, in- 

 scribed 38 students, and the students in 

 the Yale Forest School, showing an in- 

 crease of 22. — Exchange. 



FOREST SUPPLIES. 

 It is estimated by the superintendent of forest 

 rangers of the . Province of Quebec that the 

 spruce forests of the Province aggregate 144,363,- 

 000 acres and that the consumption denudes 

 830.750 acres annually, so that if no increase in 

 the consumption took place it would take 173 

 years to exhaust the supply. Inasmuch, however, 

 as the spruce forest renews itself in 15 to 25 

 years there would seem to be enough timber in 

 Quebec to supply any probable demand practically 

 forever. — Canadian paper. 



Such false statements as the above, 

 which go the round of the papers, retard 

 the application of forestry principles in the 

 use of our remaining forest resources. The 



statement that a spruce forest renews itself 

 in 15 to 25 years is incorrect. The trees 

 that the lumberman is satisfied to cut are 

 mostly over 150 years old. What is meant 

 is that alter 15 or 25 years some of the 

 trees that the lumberman had left because 

 they were too small have increased their 

 diameters sufficiently to satisfy him; but 

 there is no renewal or reproduction to 

 make good the removal. 



MORE FOREST RESERVATIONS. 



The forest reservation policy has found 

 entrance into the State of Michigan, in 

 spite of the defeat of the legislation which 

 attempted to introduce it last winter. Mr. 

 D. A. Blodgett, of Grand Rapids, has 

 given to the State Forest Commission 

 35,000 acres of timber land in Crawford 

 and Roscommon counties, which the Com- 

 mission has accepted and expects to handle 

 as a forestry reserve. This tract ad- 

 joins other land which has come into 

 possession of the State for non-payment of 

 taxes, and if the lobby against the State 

 devoting this land to forest purposes can 

 be defeated a State forest reservation of 

 1,000,000 acres solid can be established in 

 the central part of the peninsula. 



BALLADE OF LITERARY LETTERS. 



Of old it was an easy thing 



To write a letter to one's dear, 

 To line the words we felt, and cling 



To simple sentiments and clear ; 



But times are sadly changed, we hear — 

 Love grows enamored of the mint ; 



We pen our lines with care and fear — 

 Our letters must be fit to print. 



No more in our accustomed way 



We say the tender things we mean ; 

 Our letters may be made to play 



A part in book or magazine. 



Ah, me ! They once by one were seen — 

 We did not have to hedge or hint ; 



But now the public comes between — 

 Our letters must be fit to print. 



Whene'er the lean wolf snarled of old, 



A man sought friends without demur, 

 Or left his watch in Shylock's hold, 



Or starved or stole, as he'd prefer; 



But now he takes the notes of Her, 

 The honeyed lines she did not stint, 



And hies him to a publisher — 

 Our letters must be fit to print. 



L'Envoi. 

 Sweetheart, henceforth with words alone 



Shall Love his fond expressions tint. 

 It grieves me sore, yet must I own 

 My letters are not fit to print. 



— Theodosia Garrison, 

 in October Century. 



