The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-07-27
FORESTRY SCHOOL NEWS.
From the ltasca State Park, Local New.
Of General Interest.
By P. T. Allen.

stumps and rocks, frequently report
cases of poisoning by dynamite.
An inquiry directed to the depart
ment of physiology and pharmacol.
ogy of the University of Minnesota,
resulted in the following advice,
The symptoms experienced are due
to the handling of the EXPLOSIVES
mixture OF nitroglycerin and in
fusorial earth-which is of volatile
nature and is very readily absorbed.
1t is also possible that some Ct the
effect is due to the inhaling of the
volatillzed substance.
The effect is Identical to that of
large doses of nitroglycerir, and is
due to the dilatation of the blood
vessels in general. The dilatation
of the menengial vessels of the b,ain
is said to be the cause of the throb-
ing and severe headache. The treat.
ment is mainly prophylatic, avoid
the intoxit alton as much as possible
and it has been advised to handle
the stuff with rubber gloves and
avoid inhaling the gases. Little
can be done in the way of medical
treatment to overcome the immedi-
ate effect, alarming symptoms would
have to be treated as they arise but
these are rather rare" If anyone
personally knows how to use dyna-
mite and avoid such trouble, please
tell US for the headache is mighty
mean.
A scientific visitor to the Park
and the Forest School, July II, was
Geo. G. Hedgcock, pathologist in
charge of the survey of the diseases
of forest trees and timber roots in
the national forests. He is connected
with the Office of Forest Pathology
in the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S.
Department of Agriculture. He is
making an extensive tour through
out the western half of the United
States, making a disease survey in
the various national forests and also
carrying on experiments in many of
them.
At the forest school he stayed
four days, making satisfactory COL
lections through the very dry
weather is unfavorable condition
for his work. He finds fungus
growths aplenty of such deciduous
trees as paper birch and aspen but
none at all on the Norway pines.
The spread of such fungus trouble
that will result in timber rot, may
be stopped by picking the fungus
off the tree, as it is now done i'm
Germany where every tree has an
acknowledged individual value,
and as in this country in the
corn6eld, where the careful farmer
removes the smut balls from his
field corn.
Accompanying the Forest School
students on an excursion, DR.. Hedg-
cock lectured to them informally in
the field. He went from here to the
Cass Lake national forest, thence to
the national forests in Montana.
July 1S, fifteen guests from Doug
las Lodge in two launches, picniced
at Elk Lake Spring and the Beaver
Dam. Seventy guests were enter.
tanned at the Lodge yesterday.
August Snyder, one half mile east
of Wedmann's at Lake Itasca, has
telephone connection now with the
outside world, using a standard in.
strument and a barbwire circuit on
Wegmann's pasture fence.
w. H. Gardner of Lake Itasca
killed 400 pound bear. He refused
to dispose of the hide, but will have
it tanned by Detroit Michigan
taxidermist and the head mounted
as wall-piece.
Before the welcome rain of July
%, amounting to nearly an inch, il
was said that mo more rain in
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