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rise of wood prices makes intensive management pay as it already 
pays where the markets for wood are better than the average. 
Working plans for the forests are constantly being made by a 
corps of forest surveyors. 
Though mainly in small parcels, the private forests contribute 
four-fifths of the timber exported, in order to furnish which they 
are destructively overcut. Thus far all attempts to regulate their 
use have been vain, and they are certain soon to be exhausted. 
Clearing along waters adapted for fishing, as well as clearing 
more than 12 acres anywhere without providing for new growth, 
have been forbidden since 1886. 
CATCHING HOOK FOR POULTRY. 
In a recent bulletin of the New York Cornell Experiment Sta- 
tion R. C. Lawry says : ''Every poultry farm should have sev- 
eral catching hooks. They save time in catching fowls and pre- 
vent much of the fright and injury which usually occurs on such 
occasions." 
He describes a catching hook which is an improvement of an 
old invention. The improvements described consist in so fortify- 
ing and bracing the wire portion of the device that it remains 
practically rigid, and in so shaping the hook end that the shank 
of the fowl may be easily caught and effectively held without in- 
jury. The only materials required for the construction of the 
hook are a broom handle and a 6-foot piece of No. 10 steel wire, 
which can easily be bent into the proper shape. As the figure 
shows, the hook end should have a restricted entrance * which 
makes it difficult for the fowl to withdraw its shank, but it should 
also have a large aperture which gives freedom of action while 
the shank is held. Rigidity of the wire portion of the hook is 
obtained by reinforcing it for a considerable part of its length 
from the handle by a second piece of wire. 
In using the hook it will be found that the wire portion is less 
conspicuous than the wooden handle and that the latter attracts 
the fowl's attention while the sliank is caught by the hook. The 
fowl is then gently drawn from the flock, and the shape of the 
hook is such that the foot may easily be released. 
