128 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION March 



Harvard The Senior class in many study forestry who do not plan 



5J^" ^\r A Forestry at Harvard to make it their special occupation. 



Maine Woods University spent the This implies that the fundamental im- 



month of January in a study of lum- portance of this factor in our indus- 



bering in the Maine woods, under trial life is coming to be realized. 

 Prof. Austin Gary. Spending a few 



days about Bangor in manufacturing An Academy Not only in collegiate 

 plants, they examined the logging Teaches institutions is there 

 work of the Great Northern Paper °^^^ ^^ room for teaching of 

 Company and others in the region of forestry ; but as technological colleges 

 Moosehead Lake, and the west branch have their counterparts in industrial 

 of the Penobscot; and then, taking high schools, so with forest schools. 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway to Lake Powder Point School, Duxbury, 

 Megantic, worked their way down Mass., has just established a prepara- 

 through the Androscoggin Valley to tory course in forestry. Its announce- 

 Rumford Falls. Professor Gary has ment will be found in the advertising 

 long been familiar with this region, pages of this magazine, 

 and going under his guidance the stu- 

 dents get not only a clear idea of the Abrasive _ Among the less promi- 

 method and costs of lumbering and n^^t^^d^St T "^"^ natural resources of 

 the changes gradually being intro- "^ ^ ^ ^^ the country are abrasive 

 duced in the interest of better fores- materials. Over $2,000,000 worth of 

 try, but an insight into the controlling abrasives were produced last year, 

 business and financial conditions as two-thirds of them being natural min- 

 well. erals. The list includes the following: 



Mr. J. J. Dearborn, of the class of Oilstones and scythestones ; grind- 

 1907, on February ist begins an en- stones and pulpstones; buhrstones, 

 gagement with the Diamond Match and millstones ; pumice ; infusorial 

 Company. His work will have to do earth and tripoli; crystalline quartz; 

 with the company's land holdings in garnet, corundum and emery; car- 

 Massachusetts, borundum ; crushed steel ; and alun- 



dum (artificial corundum). 

 Kansas It is expected that be- 



Agricultural fore long there will be A New The American Forest 



i^onege ^ forestry course in the Forestry Preservation Society has 



Kansas Agricultural College. There Society recently been organized, 



are already twenty students enrolled with the Secretary's office at Corfu, 



in forestry studies ; one class in den- N. Y. 



drology, one in silviculture, and one in They intend to incorporate under 

 general forestry. Professor Eastman the laws of New York as an educa- 

 is planning to organize a tree plant- tional association ; to conduct aggres- 

 ing club in the college in the spring sive propaganda for a large member- 

 term. The interest in these subjects ship, including a junior class for 

 among the students is increasing. school children; to encourage the or- 

 ganization of tree-planting clubs in 

 Iowa There are forty-eight every town and hamlet; and to at- 

 C^ne^"e* students enrolled in the tempt to secure whatever legislation 



° ^^^ forestry course at Iowa their advisory board deems advisable 

 Agricultural College. _ This number in the various States and at Wash- 

 includes senior and junior men in ington. 

 horticulture and forestry, and one 



class of civil engineers in technology. West Virginia On February nth this of- 



Several of the students are planning Forestry ^^^.^ ^^g notified of the 



to make forestry their profession. It organization of a West 



is interesting, however, to see how Virginia Forestry Association, with A. 



