THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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PARCELS POST IN GERMANY. 
In Germany parcels up to no pounds ii> weight may be 
sent through the mails. There is a scale of charges for 
different distances, ranging from fifty miles to seven hun¬ 
dred miles. It costs to send a package of twenty-two 
pounds, cents for forty-six miles, and this is increased 
at different stages up to 71 cents for a distance of seven 
hundred miles. The price also increases according to a 
regular schedule from eleven pounds to twenty-two. 
The lowest rate for carrying eleven pounds forty-six miles 
or less, is 5 9-10 cents. Parcels weighing more than 
twenty-two pounds are charged for at the rate of 1 1-10 
cents for 
each a d- 
d i t i o nal 
two and 
two-tenths 
pounds. It 
seems a 
perfectly 
fair and 
proper 
classifica¬ 
tion. The 
great ob¬ 
jection to 
parcels 
post in this 
country 
has been 
argued on 
the suppo¬ 
sition that 
a parcel 
will be car¬ 
ried from 
New York 
to San 
Francisco 
as cheap 
as for any 
s ho r t e r 
distance. 
A great 
many people do a whole lot of talking without knowing 
what they mean. No one knows what classifications, 
rates, or distance would be best in the United States, be¬ 
cause no one has had the necessary experience to work it 
out, but we will have a parcels post system and we will con¬ 
tinue to work at it until we get it right. The express 
companies have run things to suit themselves long enough. 
It is time for the public to have an inning. 
REDUCTION IN RATES. 
Lincoln, Neb. —The Adams, American, United States 
and Pacific express companies reduced express rates 
twenty-five per cent April 15, in conformity with the Sibley 
act. This measure went into effect in obedience to an order 
of the supreme court issued last week. 
FACTS ABOUT NATIONAL FORESTRY. 
Here are some facts regarding forest preservation in the 
United States: 
In area the national reservations west of the Mississippi 
River cover 234,170 square miles, or 149.869,000 acres. 
There is being spent in the Western States $40,000,000 
for reclamation, and $5,000,000 is needed at once for the 
Eastern States. 
Proposed Eastern forest reservation include 660,000 acres 
or 1,030 square miles, in the White Mountains, and 5,000,000 
acres, or 7,800 square miles, in the Southern Appalachians. 
In 1907, President Roosevelt added 17,000,000 acres to 
the West¬ 
ern forests, 
and a bill 
is pending 
in Congress 
to provide 
for the two 
national 
fore s t 
areas in 
the East¬ 
ern moun¬ 
tains, with 
a pre- 
limi nary 
appropria- 
t i o n of 
$5,000,000. 
I n h i s 
message to 
Congress 
President 
Roosevelt 
said : 
‘‘We 
s h o u 1 d 
acquire in 
the South¬ 
ern Appa- 
1 a c hian 
and White 
Mountain 
regions all the forest land that is possible for the use of 
the nation. These lands, because they form a national 
asset, are as emphatically national as the rivers which 
they feed and which flow through so many States before 
they reach the ocean.” 
COUNTY SEAT NURSERY CHANGES HANDS. 
Chas. F. Luce has purchased the County Seat Nursery 
of Logan, Iowa, formerly owned by J. H. M. Edwards of 
that place. He announces that he is going to stock up the 
nursery and carry on the business on a larger scale than was 
formerly done. Mr. Luce is in the market for stock and 
tools and all things that go to make up a complete nursery 
equipment. We welcome Mr. Luce to the great brother¬ 
hood of nurserymen. 
