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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



densed milk, sugar, butter, and a large thick peach pie, cut barracks, with eight men to a squad. This arrangement 

 only twice, making each portion one-quarter of a pie, and greatly facifitated the isolation of ill men. The squad 

 a real American pie at that. So husky and vigorous are tents were boarded to a height of four feet and well 

 men living un- 

 der these con- 

 ditions that de- 

 spite their ten 

 hours of hard 

 work during 

 the day, their 

 favorite recre- 

 ation at night 

 is in some ath- 

 letic e X e rcise 

 or game. 



At first the 

 men were rath- 

 er well crowd- 

 ed together, a 

 few large bar- 

 r a c k s being 

 erected at a 

 camp and usu- 

 ally si.xty men 

 being assigned 

 to each bar- 

 rack. Later, 

 however, it was 

 found that the 

 men were bet- 

 t e r contented 

 and kept in 

 b e 1 1 er health 

 by being sepa- 

 rated in squad 

 tents, or small 



CUTTING AND SHARPENING BARBED WIRE STAKES 



These stakes or poles from five to six feet in length used for supporting barbed wire entanglements were 

 cut by the hundred thousand for use not only on the fighting line, but for second and third line defenses. 



sodded and 

 floored. Each 

 had a small 

 stove, was 

 equipped with 

 six or eight 

 hunks and was 

 tasy to keep 

 warm and dry 

 and comfort- 

 able. In some 

 canqjs w h e re 

 tents were not 

 to lie had, huts 

 were built and 

 served the same 

 purpose. 



Various 

 units of the 

 regiment (ler- 

 fornied partic- 

 ularly good 

 w o r k during 

 the September 

 drive of the 

 Allied Armies 

 which forced 

 t h e Germans 

 back so quick- 

 ly. During one 

 day's opera- 

 tion, the Amer- 

 i c a n fighting 



SMALL POSTS USED FOR WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS 



Many hundreds of thousands of these posts were cut by the contending armies and on them was stretched thousands of miles of barbed wire. 

 The line of trenches is indicated by the whitish soil. Many miles o* such trenches formed lines of defense between the German advance and 

 Paris. 



