FOREST NOTES 



691 



account of the heavy pall of smoke 

 which overhui\£^ the Adirondacks. This 

 smoke was not due to lires within this 

 territory, but on account of the forest 

 fires in the province of Quebec. 



F. A. Gaylord, who for the last four 

 3^ears has been one of New York 

 State's foresters, has resigned his posi- 

 tion and accepted appointment of the 

 Nehasane Park Association. He will 

 have charge of the property and will 

 plan and carry on lumbering opera- 

 tions. 



Four hundred and sixty thousand 

 feet, nine hundred and ten logs have 

 been loaded on seventy cars in a nine- 

 hour day ! That's five logs every three 

 minutes throughout the day, or eight 

 hundred and fifty-two feet a minute. 

 This splendid record was made l)v 

 Loaderman A. B. Cochran for the Gulf 

 Lumber Company at Fullerton, La. A 

 stiff-boom McGiffert Loader was used. 

 The rest of this record-breaking crew 

 consisted of W. A. McCormick, fire- 

 man ; Dock Jordan, Will Kile, Red 

 Bass, Bob Franklin, and Charles Rev- 

 els. 



Montana's new School of Forestry 

 opens its doors on September 8. Full 

 courses in scientific forestry and in 

 logging engineering are to be in the 

 hands of expert instructors, and no ef- 

 fort will be spared to provide for all 

 students the best and most practical 

 and up-to-date courses of instruction. 

 The new School of Forestry is a de- 

 partment of the University of Mon- 

 tana, located at Missoula. The loca- 

 tion is peculiarly advantageous in its 

 relation to the work of the federal for- 

 est service, and its position in a forest 

 region of great importance, both scien- 

 tific and economic, and in the special 

 opportunities offered in a new and rap- 

 idly growing section of the country. 

 Mr. Dorr Skeels, an expert logging en- 

 gineer of the forest service, has been 

 selected dean of the school. 



land surface is better suited to the grow- 

 ing of forests than any other crop from 

 the soil. Furthermore, its forest area 

 is surrounded by waterways leading to 

 the best of markets and it does not have 

 the severe topographical difticulties met 

 with in forest areas of the Appalachian 

 and Rocky Mountain sections. The 

 practice of Forestry on these forest 

 lands will be sim|)le because of ease 

 of access, right climatic and soil con- 

 ditions and nearness of market. On 

 lands not nearly as well suited to the 

 growing of forests as the half of New 

 York which is essential forest land, the 

 countries of Europe are producing from 

 two to five dollars per acre per year 

 from forests. 



Richard James Donovan, of New 

 York City, whose interest in tree plant- 

 ing in the Adirondacks was described 

 in the August American Forkstrv, 

 writes in regard to the planting of 100,- 

 000 white pine and Scotch pine: 'T 

 have just returned from a couple of 

 weeks' visit to the plantation and I find 

 that of the Scotch pine planting this 

 year not more than 1 per cent have 

 died and of the white pine not more 

 than 5 per cent. The white pine is far 

 more delicate than the Scotch pine. If 

 the white pines are planted in open 

 grounds without any saplings or cover 

 of undergrowth on light jjure soil, they 

 are a little difficult to get started and 

 some of them will die, but if they have 

 cover of small trees or sai)lings such 

 as white birch or poplars and bushes 

 of any kind, so that during the first 

 few years after they are planted they 

 have shade very few of the trees die. 

 The white pine tree in its youth needs 

 the shade. The Scotch pine may be 

 planted in pure white sand and ex- 

 ])osed to the sun and more than 00 per 

 cent of them will live. This has been 

 my experiences in planting 365,000 pine 

 trees in the Adirondack .Mountains. 



The State of New York will be one 

 of the greatest forest producing states 

 of the Union because nearly half of the 



The National Conservation Congres.'^ 

 which meets in its sixth annual session 

 at New Orleans November 10-14, will 

 devote its chief consideration to three 

 leading topics, floods and their damage. 



