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the forest is twenty-five years old it will yield $175 worth of 

 timber per acre annually. That means $1,225,000 a year. With 

 expenses deducted, this will leave a profit which will go far 

 toward reducing the burden of taxation. — American Forestry, 

 January, 1912. 



Penal Institutions In the last few years there has been a 

 AND Conservation. very strong movement to get away from 

 mediaeval customs still clinging to our 

 prison systems. The movement is gaining momentum very rapid- 

 ly, and primarily it aims to get the prisoner out of the barred 

 cell and place him under more congenial surroundings. Would 

 not a prison nursery be a great step in this direction, getting 

 the unfortunate inmate out in the sun and air, where he would 

 lose his prison pallor and be more healthy and happy. The 

 most intensive methods used in nursery work to-day could be 

 multiplied and carried out to the extreme, thus insuring the 

 finest kind of nursery stock. 



A great deal about conservation is heard nowadays, not only 

 forest conservation, but conservation of all kinds, in order that 

 a rich heritage shall be left for the coming generation. The poor 

 unfortunates who are in penal institutions have conserved nothing, 

 not even their moral and mental faculties. Here is a way, then, 

 that they can, in part, pay off their debts to our succeeding gen- 

 erations, and in so doing be vastly the better off for it them- 

 selves and to society in general. — American Forestry, December, 

 1911. 



Forest What is needed now in forest education is a 



Education. greater number of first-class schools for the edu- 

 cation of rangers and woodsmen. Meanwhile, the 

 enormous field of popular education in forestry is either com- 

 pletely neglected or carried on in a desultory way by State or 

 experiment station officials. — American Forestry, December, 191 1. 



Forest Service At a banquet in Boston on November 9th, 

 Revenues. Congressman Weeks, in a speech dealing with 



his bill for forest preservation, declared that 

 last year's revenue from forest lands in the Rocky Mountain 

 district was $1,000,000 in grazing and from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 

 in forestry. He prophesied that in the near future these revenues 

 would pay the expenses of the forestry bureau of the Department 

 of Agriculture. — American Forestry, December, 191 1. 



