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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



examinations which have been made and which had not 

 rc-suhed in purchases would have to be made over again 

 and the intimate touch with the land situation which is 

 now enabling purchases to go forward smoothly would 

 be lost. From every point of view it is highly desirable 

 that appropriations continue without a break. 



It is again emphasized that the Congress established 

 this project upon the basis of an appropriation of 

 $11,000,000. One million dollars appropriated for the 

 year 1910 never became available at all. Instead of 

 hastening into purchases in order to utilize the appropria- 

 tion for the year 1911, which would have been unbusi- 

 nesslike, and would have resulted in loss to the Govern- 

 ment, the Commission adopted the conservative policy of 

 making purchases only after full information had been 

 secured in regard to each tract and reasonable prices had 

 been obtained. By so doing it established the work upon 

 a sound basis, but nearly all the $2,000,000 appropriated 

 for the year 1911 reverted to the treasury. These appro- 

 priation which were not utilized ought to be reappro- 

 priated. 



In the judgment of the members of the Commission the 

 v/ork should be carried forward in a steady, systematic 

 Vvfay. Since the existing appropriations ceased with the 

 fiscal year 1915, it is recommended that action be taken by 

 the Congress during the present session to continue the 

 appropriations at the rate of $2,000,000 per year from 

 the fiscal year 1917 to the fiscal year 1921, inclusive, and 

 that it make all the appropriations available until 

 expended. 



CORNELL SUMMER FORESTRY CAMP 



FROM July 19 to September 21, 1915, the profes- 

 sional forestry students in the Department of 

 Forestry at Cornell University were in camp in 

 the Adirondacks. These ten weeks formed a regular 

 part of the work of the third term of the New York 

 State College of Agriculture, the first six weeks of the 

 term, June 7-July 17, being spent at Ithaca. 



The camp was near Lake Ozonia, St. Lawrence County. 

 in the western part of the Adirondacks, about thirty miles 

 from the Canadian boundary and fourteen miles from the 

 nearest railroad station, St. Regis Falls. It was in the 

 midst of timberland being logged over for several large 

 commercial companies, so that the students had oppor- 

 tunity to observe lumbering operations at close range. 



Besides the lumbering work the students were given 

 regularly scheduled examinations and reports to hand in 

 promptly. This, with their courses in silviculture, mesu- 

 ration and forest utilization, kept them very busy with 

 little time for recreation. To go to the Cornell forestry 

 camp is not like taking a summer holiday, the students 

 say. The camp itself was between two lumber camps 

 and near a saw-mill. It was on a timber tract of eight 

 or nine thousand acres belonging to Mr. F. A. Cutting 

 of Boston. Beech, birch, maple and hemlock were being 

 cut out. 



Two summers of this camp work are required as a 

 regular part of the professional course leading to a degree 

 in forestry at Cornell. In addition the students must 

 put in three months, in the autumn of the senior year, 

 in obtaining practical experience in lumbering and logging. 

 One of the students at the close of camp decided to remain 

 as a "lumber jack" at a neighboring camp and get off 

 his experience. He will be there during the fall and 

 winter. The other seniors found jobs in other logging 

 camps elsewhere' in the Adirondacks or in New England. 



One of the pleasant features of the camp was the fact 

 that the professors in charge were on the same footing 

 as the students. The boys built a dam and every morning 

 between 5 and G o'clock, faculty and students rose and 

 took an icy plunge in the stream. Most of the men were 

 athletically inclined. One is a crew man, two are on the 

 varsity swimming team, one is an inter-collegiate miler 

 and another is on the cross-country team. Long tramps 

 to places of interest, from the point of view of logging, 

 were taken on several occasions and the professors held 

 their end of the affaii up well, even if competing with 

 such a well set-up, muscular lot of young men. A man 

 who visited the camp said that they were indeed the 

 "cream" of Cornell students as to physical development. 



One of the features of the camp was the camp fire. 

 On the last night, an immense camp fire was built and 

 all the lumber jacks in the camps around were invited 

 over. About a hundred came. They sang songs and 

 did stunts. Many of the lumbermen were Canadian and 

 French. 



When camp broke up the boys went to Dickenson, 

 where the camp cook lived, and gave a free concert to 

 show their esteem and aft'ection for him. Everybody 

 iri town came. What took especially well was the college 

 yells. The Cornell boys gave their own and every other 

 yell they could think of and then made up some when 

 the audience kept on clamoring for more. 



The three faculty members who carried the burden 

 of the work in camp were Professors A. B. Recknagel, 

 J. Bentley, Jr., and Samuel N. Spring. 



The student body numbered fifteen seniors and five 

 graduate students. The latter will receive the degree of 

 Master in Forestry in February, 1916. 



WOODSTOCK'S LAUDABLE WORK 



Woodstock, Vermont, a village of about 1,700, has an 

 Improvement Society, which for several years has kept 

 the streets and little squares and corners of the village 

 immaculately neat, and has done a number of other inter- 

 esting and useful things. This society has now decided 

 to establish in the center of the village what it will call, 

 for lack of a better name, a Botanical Garden. Its 

 purpose is to call attention through this garden to the 

 value for decorative purposes of native trees, shrubs, 

 flowers, ferns, mosses and climbers. 



