NEBEASKAN
Forestry Notes
The timber Industry represents
Social aitb personal
per cent of the annual production of
wealth in Columbia.
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Forest fires In Pennsylvania during
the year 1914. caused damage of more
than $430,000 according to the State
Department of Forestry.
The northernmost national forest is
the Chugach in Alaska; the southern
most is the Luquillo in Porto Rico.
February Number "Tree Talk."
One hundred shade trees will be
Dlanted by the Massachusetts forestry
association in cities or towns of four
population classes which win prize
contests for excellence in street tree
planting.
The Russian government has placed
an embargo on all kinds of lumber, to
prevent its exportation; walnut lum
ber, including Circassian walnut, much
prized by American furniture makers,
is especially mentioned.
The Massachusetts Forestry Associ
ation offers as a prize the planting of
fifty acres of white pine, to the town
which gains the first place in a con
test for town forests.
The annual cut of British Columbia
timber is approximately two billion
feet. There are 420 mills and 790
logging camps in the provine. employ
ing about 60.000 men.
The national forest reservation com
mission has approved the purchase of
the Pisgah Forest from the estate of
the late George W. Vanderbilt, at an
average price of five dolars an acre.
The tract consists of S6.700 acres and
the total cost is therefore $433,500.
The price paid is less than the average
for other tracts already acquired al
though the Pisgah Forest has been
developed by its former owner into
one of the best forest properties in
the country. The tract includes por
tions of Transylvania. Henderson.
Buncombe, and Hayward counties, in
North Carolina. With this purchase,
and with others recently approved, the
total area approved for purchase under
the Weeks law in the eastern moun
tains is 1,077,000 acres.
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WALTER DAMROSCH, Director
NEW YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Auditorium, May 6th
Forestry Notes
More than 700,000 acres have been
acquired for national forest purposes
in the southern Appalachians and the
White Mountains.
More than 120 million board feet of
timber wer given away by the Govern
ment last year to settlers and miners
living in or near the national forests.
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iMore than 2,000,000,000 ft. b. m. of
timber, with a value of $4,300,000 on
he stump, were sold by the United
States Forest Service last year, ac
cording to the annual report. This is
an increase of 167 per cent over the
sales of thep receding year.
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FRATERNITY AND SORORITY
TRADE SPECIALLY SOLICITED
A few of our leaders:
Komo Try it ...$6.50
Emreka Semi-An th $7.00
Washed Egg $6.00
Spadra $-50
Other grades at low prices.
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COAL CO.
107 North llth .
Exhaustive inquiry has established
the fact that lightning ranks next to
railroads as a source of forest fires.
Forest officers say that the itcreasing
care with fire on the part of the rail
roads and the public generally tends
to make lightning the largest single
contributing cause.
There is promise of a large turpen
tine industry in the West and South
west, the raw product being supplied
by the recinous gum of Western yel
low pine.
A large number of the national for
ests already more than pay operating
expenses. The revenue from the
Alaskan forests now exceeds the cost
of administration. The same is true
generally In the Southwest.
Foresters In the United tSates are
much surprised by the statement in
the January issue of the Journal of
Agriculture of New Zealand. Just re
ceived in this country, that the Monte
rey pine "is by far the most valuable
and profitable timber tree that can be
planted" in New Zealand. In one plan
tation, for example, in which the
trees varied from 26 to 29 years old,
one tree gave a yield of 1,400 board
feet of saw timber and the average
yield of the plantation was approxi
mately 100,000 board feet for each
acre. Whit pine, the tree best
adapted to forest mangement ia the
northeastern United States, will scarce
ly yield more than 20,000 board feet
per acre at this age. November Num
ber "Tree Talk."
Tree Planting in New York City
Response of citizens and civic or
ganizations to the offer of the New
York Park Department to plant trees
has been prompt. Hundreds of appli
cations have been filed. Architects
are including the planting of trees in
their plans for new buildings, and indi
viduals are getting together in various
sections of the city and planting by
blocks. The Park Department fur
nishes the trees with all necessary ac
cessories, such as soil, stakes, tree
guards, etc., and performs all the nec
essary labor, such as cutting concrete
or flagged sidewalks, digging hole,
planting tree, staking and applying
water to the roots just after planting,
clearing away debris, rubbish, etc., and
leaving the street in a clean and
orderly condition all for $3 a tree.
Should the tree die from natural
causes within a period of three years
it will be replaced free.
The Value of Shade Trees
A large number of real estate men
were asked this question recently:
How much dof ull grown shade trees
along the 6treet improve the value of
the adjoining land for house lots? A
fair average of the answers fell be
tween 25 and 40 per cent, though some
went so far as to state that a house lot
would be worth 100 per cent more if
full grown shade trees were standing
afront. Expert tree appraisers say
that a shade tree in good condition and
well placed is worth $1 per ssuare inch
of cross section measured at breast
height. At that rate a tree one foot
in diameter is worth $113, while a tree
two Xeet in diameter is worth $432.
Real Estate Indicator.
One of the difficult features of fores
try In the Philippines is the great
number of tree species, all of which
the forester should be able to recog
nize. The Philippine Herbarium con
tains specimens of more than 2.500
species of trees.
Miss Blanche Higgens of Shubert,
Neb., formerly a student in the depart
ment of physical education aj the uni
versity, has been appointed play
ground instructor for a Lincoln school.
Richard O. Cromwell. '12, an assist
ant In the experiment station at West
Raleigh, N. C, visited instructors In
the department of botany Tuesday.
Mr. Cromwell recently married a south
ern girl.
Ernest Dale, a graduate of the Uni
versity of ..Nebraska, has taken
charge as superintendent of the work
of the Omaha garden club, an organi-
Mtion which is operating with the ag
ricultural extension department of the
state farm in garden work. It is an
organization similar to the recntly or
ganized Lincoln garden club.
Walter I C. Muenchere, who wnj
take his master's degree in botany
next June, has received word of his
appointment as an assistant in alga
logy in Friday Harbor experiment sta
tlon, which is located at Puget sound
in connection with the University of
Washington. The work wilt last dur
ing the summer session and will afford
abundant opportunity for individuel
research.
Miss Pauline Bush, moving jkture
star who was a member of Pi Beta Pi
at the University of Nebraska, will be
married April 24 to Allan Dwan, the
manager of Mary Pickford. The cere
mony will take place at the San Juan
Caplstrano mission in California. Miss
Hush was on thes tage for a time after
leaving the University in 1904 and
several years ago took up moving pic
ture work.
FIRES
By Bristow Adams
The District Forester Speaks:
I wish'l were out with the fellows
Just my luck to be stuck here in
town;
But I've got to sit tight when I'd heap
rather fight
To help keep these brush blazes
down.
I'm sick of this end of the business.
The ring of the querulous phone,
The telegrams, top, of flames breaking
anew ""
While I have to stand it alone.
And I'll own
It's hell to be watching alone.
There's Bill he's gone out with the
pack train,
And Jim he's to rustle the grub
For the men on the line, and he's do
ing it fine
While I'm sitting here like a dub;
The fellows are working like demons.
They're scorched' and they're blis
tered no less.
While I stay and chafe and am damna
bly safe
When I'd like to mix up in the mess;
Well, I guess!
That the buck-brush ablaze is a
mess:
in a swivel chair well, it's the limit
With the rest in the thick of the
fight
With their lungs all a-choke with the
dust and the smoke.
And sweat in their eyes day and
night;
But I've got to look out for the labor
This calling for troops makes me
sick;
There's none seems to know if the
troops o ight to go;
N'either begging nor blarney nor
kick
Brings 'em quick.
So it's no use to blarney or kick.
So here I am pacing the office
And "watchfully waiting" returns
From lookouts for days all enveloped
in haze
Where half of a mountainside burns;
I've drawn in my men to where dan
ger Is worse where dry desert winds go.
And I'll be In a hole if my extra patrol
Can't hold in the face of a blow;
And I know
They can't hold in front of a blow. .
I'm afraid there will be a hitch some
where,. There's no telling where it will be.
But I'd rather be found right there on
the ground
Right out there to think, act, and
see!
I won't care for second-hand versions
Of how the disaster befell.
But I'll choose all the brunt of the
scrap at the front
Instead of this telephone bell;
And it's hell,
To depend on this telephone bell! .
Out there are my Supers and Rangers,
With lumberjacks, men from the
mills.
From fields and from slums, hoboes,
tie hacks, and bums,
And ranchers who know all the hills;
While I'm her with no smoke in my
nostrils.
I am here with no scorch on my
cheek, -
When I'd rather be there with singed
eye-brows, and hair
Than stuck in here week after week.
Hear me speak!
I'll be bughouse inside of a week!
American Forestry.
GERMAN CLUB PLAY
AT PARK SCHOOL
Play That Was Given at Last Club
Meeting to Be Presented Before
Grade Students
The cast which presented Benedix's
"Eigensinn" at the meeting of the Ger
man Dramatic Club on April 13 will
repeat the performance at the Park
School this evening. During the
school year the club has been asked
to repeat its performances before vari
ous organizations of the city and the
general policy of the club has always
been to grant these requests when
ever possible.
The date for the performance of
Schiller's "Der Neffe als Onkil" has
been set for April 30. The cast is
working hard and faithfully to make
a finished production of the play; a
representative has been sent to Oma
ha to make arrangements for the cos
tumes, which are to be very elaborate,
and all indications point to a very suc
cessful performance, such as the stu
dent body and the German citizens
have been acustomed TO expect of the
German Dramatic Club.
LAW FRATERNITY
, ANNOUNCES PLEDGES
Nine Law Students Selected For Mem
bership by the Phi Alpha
Delta
Phi Alpha Delta, the law fraternity,
announces the following pledges.
Peter I. Harrison.
Clifford U Rein.
John L. Richards,
Win. Schaper.
Robert Waring.
Benjamin Burritt.
John Loder.
Golden P. Kratz.
Marion Shaw.
Opportunity is usually a little bash
ful around the young man who is
afraid to do more than he is paid for.
Minneapolis Messenger.