This project has been under way only a short time, but already 
game has begun to appear and song-birds are returning. 
Mt. Airy Forest will be the most striking feature of the Cincinnati 
Park System, and before many of the children now in our Public 
Schools have reached middle life, it is not improbable that the com- 
bined park and forest reservation, on the hills to the northwest of the 
city, will have become famous throughout the country. 
Mabel *B. Taft, 
Cincinnati Garden Club. 
From TJie New York Times 
The national forests turned into the United States Treasury during 
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915, nearly 82,500,000, an increase of 
more than 840,000 over the previous year. On account of the de- 
pressed condition of the lumber industry, the timber sales, which 
amounted to 81,164,000, yielded 879,000 less, but there were larger 
revenues from other sources. The grazing receipts, which totaled 
Si, 125,000, increased 8127,000, and the water power receipts, which 
amounted to not quite 890,000, increased nearly 842,000. 
The demoralization of the turpentine industry on account of the 
war's curtailment of the naval stores market caused the receipts from 
the sale of turpentining privileges on the national forest reserves to 
drop to about $9,000, as against nearly Si 5,000 last year. 
The Valley Walk 
Furlough Park, County Mayo, Ireland 
The carriage-drive wound through the grounds for almost half 
a mile, part of the way under beautiful tall trees, oak and beech and 
elm, with shrubberies of laurel and rhododendron clustering at their 
feet. 
One of the most picturesque spots on the place was the "Valley 
Walk" or "Alpine Path," as it was variously called, but which was in 
reality a wilful bit of roadway that hated the long gradual sweep 
through the outskirts of the wood. 
It afforded the pedestrian a shorter though not always a quicker 
route to the house, for one was tempted to linger along the cool shaded 
path. 
It started at right angles to the drive, passed lingeringly through 
a well grown shrubbery and paused as if for breath before climbing 
to the high ground which the driveway beyond was quietly reaching 
by slow stages. 
