Announces New Name

Follorving a dissolution of partnership and reoganization, October 1, the McCullough-Fagan Lumber Company became the McCullough Lumber Company, it is announced. Now associated with A. R. McCullough in this firm, which resumes the same name so familiar in the lumber trade a few years ago, are W. A. Magee of Seattle and B. W. Bookstaver of Los Angeles.

Coincident with this reorganization a hoteworthy step has been taken which enables the company to give still more uniformly dependable service. Use of barges has been discontinued, and four vessels of the S. S. Freeman Steamship Company are being operated on regular schedule. This McCullough service fleet consists of the S. S' Sierra, capacity 1,200,000 feet; the S. S. Daisy Putnam, capacity 1,200,000 feet; the S. S. Daisy G1lY, cgn-acity.1'4Cb,00O'feet; and the S. S. Daisy, capacity fo0,000{eet. By arrang'ement with the Freeman comPany other ships may be added from time to time.

The personell of the new McCullough Lumber Co-mpany includei Captain W. A' Mage-e-and Boggt l-ayne at Seattle; A. R. McCullough and A. R. McCullough, J..,9t San Fr-ancisco; B. W. Boiokstaver and L. G. Burns at Los Angeles' A. R: McCullough, head of the firm, is one of the best knolvn lumber niett on the Pacific Coast, having an enviable record of experience covering twenty years in^ coas.t lumber business. -B' W. Bookstaver is also an "old timer," knorn'n by all lumberdom in California, having been associated with Mr. McCullough for fifteen years.

Bringing to the company especially valuable assistance in the tranating of theil growing cargo business, Captain W. A. Magee, the new member of the organization,-!." _" u'ide first-f,and knowledge of shipping, and-points of loading and discharging. He was formerly manager of the Forest Steamship line, Naval architect, and during tle ryq Assistant Chief -Inspector of Shipbuilding in the Pacific Northrvest for the U. S. Shipping Board, having control over 141 shipyards in that districL In addition Captain Magee is a licensed shipmaster. and also holds harbor and inlei pilot licenses on the Pacific Coast.

Sto;ks from such prominent firms as the Crossett-Western Company of W-aun., Oregon; Tle Bryant Lumber Company-, Seattle Mill & Logsrlg Compary, - Stiqson Timber Compatty, and the Wesi Waterway Lumber Company, of Seatlle,- and the H. H. McCormick Lumber Comiany of Raymond, Washington, are handled by the McCullough Lumber Company.

JrM FARLEY A SAN FRANCTSCO VTSITOR

Jim Farley, representative of the Pacifrc Lumber Co., in the Sacraminto Valley and San Joaquin Valley territory, was a recent San Francisco visitor where he spent a few days attending to business matters at the company's San Frincisco offiie. Jim reports that lumber conditions in his territory are showing considerable improvement.

There is nothing in Nature more beautifulthan a sweet gum forest.

The rows of gray trees, with 6fty, sixty, seventy feet of clean trunlc; the delicate, deep-green, pointed leaves; and the grateful shade beneath, -mlke a gum forest one of Nature's cathedrals.

The beauty of the forest lives again in the beauty of the grain of the wood.

For uniformity of figure, for utility, for finishing Possibilities, gum wood admits no superiors.

The mark of HDE on every stick assures you furtherthat this worthy wood has been worthily handled andthat every virtue has been retained.

Black Walnut For Timber And Nuts

Because of thc high quality and beauty of its timbcr and its rcsistancc to dccan the food value and popularity of its nuts, and the charm of the tree from an ornarncntal standpoint,. the black ralnut challcngcs attention as a trcc worthy of exte'nsivc''planting in waste plagcs, agcording to Farmers' Bulletin No. 1392 jusf publishcd by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Detailed information is givcn in this bulletin, "Black Walnut for Timber a4d Nuts," regarding planting and the best growing condiFons, and the care of the black walnut for most satisfactory results in growing it primarily for eithcr timber, nuts, or as an orriamental.In earlier years it was teemed best to grow the black walnut in close plantations. As a consequencc the increase in diametcr was elow and the annual rings narrow. Today the market dcmand in walnut lumber is for wider rings giving an attractive grain. That rneans the trecs must be given room to make more ripid growth than when closc together, and it also means earlier -and-larger crops of nuts.

Black walnut grows best in fertile, moist, well-drained soil under average conditions of temperature and moisture and does not thrive in the extreme North or- South, nor at high elevations. nor in arid, alkaline. wet, or acid soils. Itd commerciil ranse is given as oarts of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri River Villeys-covering'por- fions of the states of Pennsylvanla, Ohio, West Viiginia, KenIuiky, Tenncssee, hjgtF, Ulinois, Missouri, 'Iowa, Ne6ras6, Kansai:, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.

ft is not recommended !o grgw the black walnut as a major farm crop on ex-tensive areas of good land-, Eecause it can not cori:.pete in p-rofits with other farm crops. B-ut it is r1rgd to ptant this irc€ i, tlose neglected or waste aieas of good soiiin fen6e corners. .to"e fence rows or stream banks-, olr -hilly or rough places, in iavinei ?nS in rocky outcroppinss in fields -and pastirrei -t ile -.ias "i tntertor sqectes_now grow. In such places the black walnut in the regions wherc it thrives should be a good investment.

_ Copics of this bulletin mly_ b-e, obdined free by writing to the Department of r{griculture, Washington, D. C.

Secured Phone

^ -["-1,. G. Browne, president of the Washington Lumber & Millwork Companv, has happily announceA a telephone at their new warehouse.

'l'he number is AXridge 6456.

F'EEDING FOREST SEEDS TO HUNGRY SQUTRRELS AND CHTPMUNKS

Flagstafi, Ariz., Oct. ?.O.-At the Southrvestern Forest Experime_nt Station tests of the appetite of the average Bocky Mountain mantled ground squirrel and the San Francisco mountain chipmunk show an astonishing capac- ity for pine seeds. The ground squirrel will eat 340 pine seeds in one day and night, while the chipmunk accounts lor 237.

Dr. Walter P. Taylor of the Biological Survey, rvho is conducting the tests, finds that a group of four seed trees in an acre of cut-over western yellow pine land would produce about 92,000 seeds in a good year. This would be just enough seed to carry one family of squirrels and three families of chipmunks about tlvo weeks. What the rodents are going to do for the remaining 50 weeks, or what they do in a poor seed year, does not appear; But in a good year at least, they very seriously interfere with the natural reforestation of western yellow pine.

The Southwestern Forest Experiment Station has been advocating the leaving of four mature trees in every acre cut .over, to provide seeds for a second growth of pine. It would 'appear questionable whether four seed trees to the acre are sufficient to do more than win the grateful, appreciation of resident squirrels and chipmunki, were it not for the young pines that actually db come in on these cut-over areas in defiance of biological statistics.

JAS. M. JOHNSON LOOKS OVER CALTFORNTA MARKET

_ J": n4. -Johnson, of the H. J. Anderson Lumber Co., Portland, has returned north afttr spendihg a month look- ing over conditions in Califoinia. - He was a visitor at Los Angeles and San Francisco where he called on his many lumbermen friends.