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all the company's waste lands will be loo^ging inspection ever tried here, and 



planted. this season is trying the experiment 



In 1908 the company started the first of marking trees and lopping tops under 

 efficient fire-protection system and in competent supervision. "Scientific Man- 

 ]9u!j persuaded the licensees to unite agement" has been in use for years, and 

 for the protection of the timber lands the cost-keeping system of this depart- 

 along the right-of-way of the new Na- ment is a model. 



tional Transcontinental Railway. This The employees have also been given 



was the beginning of the Protective As- an opportunity to subscribe to the stock 



sociation mentioned previously. of the company and have taken advan- 



In addition to engaging a forester, tage of it, and each one feels that he 



the company put a forest engineer, Mr. has a deep personal interest in its 



M. C. Small, in charge of its logging success. 



operations, and under his efficient man- The influence of all this work has 



agement an enormous amount of waste been felt in the surrounding towns and 



in the woods has been eliminated in the country, and other companies have been 



way of high stumps and large tops, encouraged by it to make a beginning 



burnt timber has been utilized, young aJono- the same lines, 



growth better protected, better condi- ^^^ ^^^y, ^f ^^jg '^^^ ^^^^^ ^^i^,, ^ ^-^^ 



tions for scalers and more careful -^ ^^^ infection of which has spread 



methods of measurement. Roads have ^^ ^jj ^^^^^^ j^^ ^^^ associated with 



been opened up, telephone hues have , . , , . i i ^ r v 



been built, gasoline launches placed on 1^'"^' ^^f ^'''''^ !^^^'} abundant fruit, 



the large rivers and comfortable quar- "ot only m_ social betterment, better 



ters built for the men in charge of living conditions and higher standards, 



depots and for the inspectors and but in greater financial prosperity for 



scalers. The logging department has the company, which has made a record 



instituted the first system of competent in earning capacity and values. 



MR. JOHN E. RHODES' NEW POSITION 



John E. Rhodes, of Tacoma, Wash., a member of the editorial advisory board of 

 American Forestry, will, in January, become the manager-secretary of the National Lumber 

 Mnuufacturers Association zvith headquarters at Chicago. It was recently decided by the 

 Association to combine these tivo offices and Mr. Rhodes succeeds Manager Leonard 

 Bronson and Secretary George K. Smith, who have so ably filled the positions for some< 

 time. Mr. Rhodes, zvho is thoroughly conversant wnth the lumber business, having been 

 in it for a number of years, is at the present time visiting the chief lumber trade centers, 

 of the country, ascertaining the sentiment of the lumber)ncn and the nature of the zvork 

 which they desire the association to do in their interests. Having thoroughly sounded them 

 he will be in a position, when he takes charge of the zvork, to dei'dop a comprehensive 

 campaign, which with his great energy to direct it zvill certainly be carried to a successful 

 conclusion. 



TEACHING FORESTRY TO CHILDREN 



The Nezv York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, designated and estab- 

 lished by the Legislature for educational zvork in Forestry in Nezv York, has sent a letter 

 to the principals of all the high and preparatory schools of the State offering to give 

 illustrated lectures and demonstrations upon Forestry before the schools so that every child 

 in the State may understand zvhaf Forestry is and may learn to love the trees and forests. 



CLEVERLY ADVERTISING BIRCH 



The Northern Hemlock and Ilardzvood Manufacturers Association is sending out a 

 very attractive book on the value, uses and beauty of birch together zvith a sample of birch 

 wood, the tzvo making a decidedly good adz'crtising feature. The book comprises sixteen 

 pages, handsomely illustrated, and shozving plans, exteriors and interiors of buildings in 

 which birch is used as zvell as a number of styles of birch finish. 



