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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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AMERICAN BLACK 



(Thin Shell) 

 or 



"THOMSON AND STABLER" 



(Grafted) 



—WALNUTS for food. 

 —WALNUTS for beauty. 

 —WALNUTS for strength. 

 —WALNUTS for sturdiness. 

 —WALNUTS for use. 

 —WALNUTS for profit. 

 —WALNUTS for endurance. 

 —WALNUTS for economy. 

 —WALNUTS for aU-round satisfaction 



GLEN BROTHERS 



GLENWOOD NURSERY 



1826 Main St., Rochester, N. Y., U.S.A. 

 are WALNUT Specialists 



Also headquarters for dependable Fruits, 

 Evergreens, Shrubs, Vines, Reeds and 

 Grasses, Hardy Perennials, Roses and 

 other flowers. 



Correspondence with city and state offi- 

 cials on subject of MEMORIAL TREES 

 for Parks, Boulevards and Highways in- 

 vited. 



Write today for 1919 Catalog 



Look steadily at these plump, meaty 

 Stabler kernels for a few seconds and 

 then think of the rich, oily, delicate 

 flavor that characterizes Walnuts. Did 

 your mouth water? 



FORESTRY SEEDS 



I OFFER AT SPECIAL PRICES 



Pinus Strobus Picea Engleraanni 



Pseudo-tsuga Doug- Picea Pungens 



lassi Thuya Occidentalis 



Pinus Ponderosa Pinus Taeda 



and many other varieties, all of this 

 season's crop and of good quality. 

 Samples upon request. Send for my 

 catalogue containing full list of varieties. 



THOMAS J. LANE 



TREE SEEDSMAN 



Dresher 



Pennsylvania 



Broxon has been made a second lieutenant in 

 the fuel wood work. 



Sergeant Jones is now first sergeant. 



The following are our new sergeants: 



Manning, Hawke, Bradtield, McCIosky, Bal- 

 singer and Bert Reed. 



Backus (known as Goldie), one time cook, is 

 now a corporal in charge of the railroad con- 

 struction. 



In October I understood that our operation set 

 a record cut in hardwood, 20 M' mill class, for 

 France. 



We have a fine camp here, also the beginning 

 of a band. 



Co. F, 10th Engineers, Levier (Doubs) 



The 37th Co. formerly Co. F, established a new 

 record for mills of the Forestry Regiments on 

 October 30, 1918, by cutting 163,000 board feet 

 of lumber in two ten-hour shifts. The mill has 

 a rated capacity for two shifts of only 40,000 

 bo.ird feet. 



The newest thing in non-coms are Sergeants 

 Alexander. Muzzall and John J. Poitevin, and 

 Corporals Rene H. Meroux and James O. Hutch- 

 ings. 



Private Ward G. Rush returned to familiar 

 scenes October 29th after having spent eleven 

 months in various hospitals in France receiving 

 treatment for ear trouble. He was as glad to 

 return as we were to see him. 



Captain Fred Morrison treated the men of 

 his command to a most sumptuous feed on Sun- 

 day, November 3rd, in celebration of the record 

 cut made by the sawmill recently. Uncle Sam 

 will have to go some Thanksgiving Day to equal 

 it in variety, quantity and appreciation. 



.\n item of unsual interest occured November 

 2nd — some first-class mail arrived. 



It seems that Turkey knew she couldn't last 

 longer than Thanksgiving Day. so she capitu- 

 lated while the capitulating was good. 



Master Engineer, Senior Grade, Parrish and 

 Sergeant, First-Class, Adams are wearing Sam 

 Brownes, having received commissions in the 

 Engineer Corps recently. We bucks are all 

 glad to salute them. 



Lieutenant Adams received his commission 

 while in the Camp Infirmary with the mumps. 

 Don't tell the rank and file he wasn't "swelled 

 up" over it. Well, it's the kind of inflation 

 that isn't permanent. 



First Lieutenant Yandell Y. Miller has been 

 assigned to this command as Camp Surgeon. 

 We have learned to know and like him. — Tlie 

 regulation O. D. Pills never were better. 



We are glad to see Major McKay again. He 

 returned recently from A. P. O. 714 where he 

 was attending the Sanitary School. 



Ex-Corporal Charles M. Rose, Chef de Gare of 

 D'Yoche, has been appointed a sergeant. 

 No Reports Received From Companies A and B 



TRAGEDY OF FRENCH TREES 

 TJ ROKEN hoines, ruined factories, shat- 

 tered churches, violated graves, it had 

 seeiTied to me we had rung all the changes 

 on the destruction of war. But there re- 

 mained one — the tragedy of the trees — says 

 a writer in McClure's Magazine. You can 

 rebuild houses, churches, towns even — 

 for that takes only money. But you can't 

 rebuild orchards of fruit trees and avenues 

 of great shade trees — for that takes time. 

 We were seeing them everywhere now — 

 orchards with trees that were but faded, 

 shriveled branches of brown leaves lying 

 on their sides; orchards, where these had 

 been cleared away that showed nothing 

 but white-topped stumps. They say that 

 when the warm spring came, some of these 

 orchard trees, lying on their sides but not 

 wholly severed, leafed gently and then — 

 just before they died — bloomed once again 

 for France. 



Timber Estimates and Maps 



Forest Management and Protection 



Improvement Cuttings, Planting 



Boundary Surveys. 



COOLIDGE & CARLISLE 



Consulting Foresters 



BANGOR, - - - MAINE 



WOODEN SHIPS 

 "D ETIRING from his post as manager 

 of the Federal Shipping Board's wood- 

 ship division, Mr. James O. Heyworth de- 

 clared that the construction of these ves- 

 sels has been justified by the valuable 

 service they have rendered "in both coast- 

 wise and transoceanic runs." Of one hun- 

 dred and one wooden ships completed and 

 delivered to the Shipping Board up to 

 December 1st, last, he reports ninety-four 

 now in active service. Eighty-five of these, 

 according to the records now in hand, 

 "have made in all 305 voyages, covering 

 a total of 490,422 statute miles." Wooden 

 ships brought last year's Hawaiian sugar 

 crop to the States. They plied from San 

 Francisco to Manila, from Pacific coast 

 ports "to Africa and Antofagasta, Chile; 

 from Antofagasta to gulf and Atlantic 

 ports ; from gulf ports to Atlantic ports," 

 and thence "to Halifax, Bermuda and the 

 Virgin Islands." They carried canned 

 goods, cement, nitrates, coal, sulphur, gen- 

 eral cargo, "serving their purpose by re- 

 leasing from essential trades," in waters 

 outside the war zones, "vessels that could 

 meet the requirements war zone conditions 

 imposed." 



Admitting that the "hopes of the propon- 

 ents of wooden ships as to speed of con- 

 struction were overly sanguine," Mr. Hey- 

 worth says, nevertheless, that, "measured 

 by performance, the entire wood shipbuild- 

 ing program has shown an efficiency of 

 over seventy-two per cent," which compares 

 very favorably, to put it in the mildest 

 terms possible with the efficiency shown 

 by, for instance, the "fabricated shipbuild- 

 ing program." And he expresses the be- 

 lief that the wooden ships will continue 

 in peace time "to serve a useful and pro- 

 fitable purpose." Their carrying capacity 

 and steaming radius may be increased, he 

 suggests, by the use of fuel oil instead of 

 coal. "Such opposition as has arisen 

 among operators to the wood ship is 

 based," he explains, "not so much upon the 

 material of which it is constructed as it is 

 upon its size and consequently small carry- 

 ing capacity." The fuel oil suggestion is 

 evidently presented to meet that objection. 



WILLOW FOR ARTIFICIAL LIMBS 

 'y HE Forest Products Laboratory at 

 Madison, Wisconsin, is working on the 

 drying of willow for artificial liinbs. 

 There is a shortage of material and the 

 demand for artificial limbs will increase. 

 It takes from three to five years to air- 

 season the stock, but indications are that 

 it can be done in kilns in from 60 to 70 

 days. 



PLANT MEMORIAL TREES 



FOR OUR 

 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 



