Counting marmots…
Since our last number was issued the following increase in the National Forest Reserves is recorded: dVew Reserves: Yuba, California, 524,297 acres, situated between and adjoining the Tahoe and the Plumas Forest Reserves; Beaver, Utah, 26•,593 acres, north of the Sevier Forest Reserve; La Sal, Utah and Colorado, t58,462 acres, west of the Uncompahgre Forest Reserve, Colorado.•tdditions to existinz reserves ,' Uinta (formerly Uintah), Utah and Wyoming, 428,878 acres, on the north and west; Sevier, Utah, 353,920 acres, on the east; Manti, Utah, x93,28o acres, chiefly on the north; Fish Lake, Utah, 89,760 acres, on the southeast.Making a total addition of 2,oxo, x8o acres.Copies of any of the above proclamations will be furnished by the Forest Service.A diagram or map is included in each proclamation.Examination of lands for new forest reserves continues especially in the southwest, where several parties are engaged this winter.As an additional note to the determination of British Thermal Units in Wood, mentioned on page 275, Vol.II, of the Qtr2tR-TERL¾, it may be stated that of five samples of heartwood of the common apple the heat units were found to be 9,315.5 per pound of.dry matter which is more than that of any one of the four samples of hard maple and next to the highest of the four samples of beech.The one sample of beech showing a larger number of heat units was a heart piece near the stump.This piece showed 9,718.5 units.It is further interesting to note that in each of the five samples of heart and sap apple wood there was no difference between the heat units of the heart and sap wood.The per cent of moisture was not determined.1•'.E. Bog'ue.A modest invention, yet of the very highest interest to foresters and to paper manufacturers, which has been overlooked, is a machine designed to make the chestnut wood, from which the tannic acid has been extracted, available for paper purposes.The
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