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Show w m National Forest Notes. Twenty-two states, including Hawaii, now employ state foresters. for-esters. Forest officers on the Payette national forest are using a compressed com-pressed air drill on road work on the forest. There is considerable con-siderable work to do and the drill saves time and money in cutting grades in mountain roads. In an experimental test track near Janes ville, Wis., an inspection in-spection juflt made showed that hemlock and tamarac ties put in the track without preservative preserva-tive treatment were decayed after 5 J years service. Those which had been treated were practically as good as when first laid. Light burning of underbrush to remove forest litter had been practiced in India, with the idea I hat it improves conditions 1 jyr " Lth " si u m& 'iHiOTTOF long investigations forest officials of-ficials there say that the fires are hanriful, that full fire protection pro-tection must be extended everywhere every-where and that to be really effective this protection -must be continuous. |