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what lorestry as a practical thing is — not mere 

 garden growing. lilio some people thinlj it is. 

 It seems so funny to mo that the public have 

 such strange ideas regarding forestry. They 

 seem to thinli it is a kind of effeminate study 

 nice land.scape gardening and the like. The for- 

 estry as taught here deals with practical money 

 making in lumborins. and nothing else. Dr. 

 Schenck said today that there is no such thing 

 as conservative forestry. Conservatism means 

 nothing to the real forester, hut ciimiMiratiic 

 forestry does. For instance, it would be foolish 

 to practice conservatism in the forests of north- 

 ern Minnesota. Nature will provide for the 

 second growth of trees and it is not a forester's 

 duty to sprinkle them with watering cans and 

 the like. All the forester 'does in that line is 

 to see that Nature is unmolested in providing 

 for the second growth. We don't plant a tree 

 where we cut one down. There is no money in 

 forestry the way the government is now teach- 

 ing it." They do not teach practicability along 

 with professional forestry, but other college 

 forestry schools are all doing government work. 

 Doc Schenck operates this forest with the best 

 money-making methods possible. He teaches us 

 the art of lumbering, even how to pile lumber in 

 cars so that the customer buys air besides wood 1 

 We have been learning lately such things as 

 this— methods of sawing logs, different saws 

 used, how logs warp, split, and check and 

 remedies for splitting and checking. By check- 

 ing logs I mean the splitting of a log after it 

 ha's heen cut. along with lis grain as is seen in 

 most Nos. -^ and 3 lumb?r. To remedy this there 

 are various methods, viz., winter cutting, strips 

 of bark left near the end of peeled logs, deaden- 

 ing, S shaped iron clamps driven into logs, 

 boards nailed onto the ends, earth covering at 

 the end. red lead painting for export logs. This 

 is what our forestry teaches. Many logs are 

 cut up for twos and threes, owing to defects 

 like this, which if they had been treated properly 

 could make first grade lumber. 



I tell you forestry is a great thing and I am 

 getting to like it more every day. 1 can't stand 

 this geology, etc.. that Doc is havin.g us take 

 to make forest life interesting, though. (U-ology, 

 you know, deals wiih stones and rocks, and 

 ills idea is to acquaint a fellow with them 

 enough so that when he goes through the forest 

 h? can distinguish rocks and their relation to 

 the soil on which the trees are growing. If 

 any of your educational club friends ask you 

 if I am studying conservative forestry you tell 

 them no. I am studying to be a lumberman. 

 Smith says it's fierce the opinion people get of 

 a forester. He says they look upcm him as 

 one of those fellows Uoosevelt calls a molly- 

 coddle. He is continually getting pamphlets, 

 magazine articles, etc.. from girls, containing 

 articles written generally by some woman, upon 

 the care and preservation of our trees, which 

 are full of B. S. and do not relate to forestry 

 at all. We don't read such things as tliat. 

 The American Lumberman, New York Lumber 

 Trade .Tournal and the ILibdwood Record are 

 the magazines we read in connection with our 

 work. I guess I am doing a little "this will be 

 me" talk along here, only being here two weeks, 

 l)Ut I wanted to give you an idea of the work. 

 The practical work is hard and is just as hard 

 I know as I can get in Dad's lumber yard. I 

 mean by practical work, field work which we 

 do every afternoon. 



I want you and Dad to be here the last week 

 in August and I will take Dad up here in the 

 mountains with me for a day or so and give 

 him a few ideas. Would like to stay here and 

 finish my course out now but guess I will wait 

 and have a year or two of college life before 

 I finish at Biltmore. I want to get my degree 

 from iHic and am going to make up my mind 

 before entering college that I will come back 

 to Biltmore. 



Well. Hon. Smith is hollering for me to put 

 out the light and turn in as he wants to sleep. 

 He is lying in his bunk smoking. Write to me 



often. I have bought me a pair of leather put- 

 ters for riding and tramping through the brush 

 as my high shoes get wet every time and I 

 have to dry them out on odd days. I love 

 you lots. ClUELES. 



Change of Base. 



D. S. Hutchinson, the premier hardwood floor- 

 ing salesmen of tlie country, has resigned his 

 position with the Nashville Hardwood Flooring 

 t:'ompany of Nashville, Tenn.. ami lias made an 

 alliance with the .\rthur Hardwood Flooring 

 Company of Memphis, to which company he 

 goes in the capacity of sales manager. Mr. 

 Hutchinson is probably not only the best floor- 

 ing salesman in the country, but he has an 

 aciiuaintance that reaches from coast to coast 

 and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. To his 

 friends he is familiarly known as "Hutch," and 

 to the trade at large as an indefatigable business 

 getter. 



Mr. Hutchinson has had long experience in 

 the flooring trade. He was associated with the 

 T. Wilce Company of Chicago for nine years 

 and for the past four has been with the Nash- 

 ville Hardwood Flooring Company. During the 

 time Mr. Hutchinson has been with the latter 

 company the business of the house has increased 

 tenfold, very largely through his salesmanship. 



The Arthur Hardwood Flooring Company of 

 Memphis, with which Mr. Hutchinson is now 

 allied, has a plant that is two years old, with 



D. S. HI'TCIIISDX. CRACK SALESMAN WITH 



ARTIUR IIARIIWOIII) FLOORING 



CO., MEMPHIS. 



about the same capacity as the Nashville insti- 

 tution, and this capacity is now being greatly 

 increased. The product of the factory in the 

 past has been exclusively oak flooring, manufac- 

 tured from the superior quality of oak that is 

 produced in the Memphis district. Hereafter it 

 will take on the production of beech flooring, as 

 well as hardwood moldings. 



Tile company's superintendent is T. J. Hum- 

 phreys, who has the reputation of being one of 

 the most skilled jnecbanics and flooring manu- 

 facturers in the country. The lumber purchas- 

 ing and handling end of the business is In charge 

 of H. R. Hearst, a man thoroughly posted on 

 this end of the business. L. I'. Arthur, who 

 organized this company something over two 

 years ago, is to he congratulated on the selection 

 of such a trio of talent as he has secured in 

 Messrs. Hutchinson, Humphreys • and Hearst. 

 This fact combined with his excellent source of 

 supply, fine plant and the splendid railroad 

 service out of Memphis, which has no less than 

 eighteen outlets by rail, should insure a great 

 future for the Arthur Hardwood Flooring Com- 

 pany. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The West \'irginia Veneer Company, lionce- 

 verte, W. Va., has been organized to succeed 

 to the business of Williamson & Co. of that 

 place. 



D. E. LoUar of Black's Ferry, Ky., has sold 

 his farm at Marrowbone to C. W. Alexander, 

 ,1. R, Keen, ,1. E. Coe and others of Burks- 

 ville. The land comprises about 1,000 acres 

 and the purchasers paid ,$10,000 for it. It is 

 said to be the finest body of timber in south- 

 ern Kentucky, 900 acres of it being virgin 

 land. 



A newly imported wood, used for high-elass 

 cabinet work and handsome piano stock is the 

 Ta.smanian myrtle. It is a rich pink color, 

 hard and close grained. 



The Brazos Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 Marlin, Tex., h,as been succeeded by the Brazos 

 I, umber Company. 



The new mill of John A. Reitz & Son at 

 Evansviile, Ind., which has only recently been 

 completed, is one of the best mills in that 

 section of the great hardwood state. It is 

 equipped with the latest machinery throughout 

 and ha.? a capacity of 75,000 feet a day. It 

 was erected to replace the one lost by the firm 

 through fire last winter. 



The W. E. Diliard Manufacturing Company 

 of Petersburg, Va., has been organized to en- 

 gage in the manufacture of saw handles and 

 general woodwork. The president and general 

 manager of the company is W. E. Diliard. 



A sawmill with a capacity of 50.000 feet a 

 day is being erected at Onalaska, Tex., by Wil- 

 liam Carlisle & Co. Hardwoods and yellow 

 l)ine will be manufactured. William Carlisle, 

 I,. O. .lackson and William Pritchard are the 

 lirincipal owners of the concern. 



L. B. Bristol and Isador Wallace of States- 

 ville, X. C, and Sheriff McDowell of Morgan- 

 town recently purchased a tract of 1,000 acres 

 of valuable timber land in McDowell county. 

 The property contains a rich growth of oak, 

 poplar and pine timber and is within easy 

 reach of ample railroad transportation. 



Fire at the operations of the Lanham Lumber 

 Company at Lebanon, Ky., destroyed the entire 

 plant with the exception of the office building 

 and one warehouse. The company manufac- 

 tured hardwood flooring and was one of the 

 most successful concerns of the kind in the 

 state. The loss sustained was .ibout .$35,000, 

 with only $T,500 insurance. State Senator 



Harry Lancaster and his father. B. J. Lan- 

 caster, were the principal stockholders in the 

 concern. It is probable that the plant will be 

 rebuilt. 



,Iohn Nagcly, Sr., of New Philadelphia, O., 

 died Saturday, August 2, from valvular disease 

 of the heart. Mr. Nagely was born in Switzer- 

 land in 1832, and in 1861 came to this coun- 

 try. For forty-five years he was a resident 

 of New Philadelphia. He was first employed 

 by the Champion Planing Mills and in 1870 

 was admitted as partner. In 1880 he became 

 identified with William H. Criswell. and on his 

 death his sons were taken into the business, 

 the firm being styled the John Nagely Lumber 

 Company. Mr. Nagely leaves eight children to 

 mourn bis death, and a multitude of friends, 

 numbering almost the entire population of his 

 home town, where he was regarded as one of 

 the most upright and honored citizens. 



The Prindle tract of hardwood timber, near 

 Livingston Manor, N. Y., has Just been sold for 

 $12 an acre. There are 3.000 acres in the 

 tract. 



The Johns & Brown Company of Aurora, 111,, 

 will soon begin the erection of a new ware- 

 house. The company makes a specialty of side- 

 boards, bookcases, mantels, showcases, store, 

 office and bank fixtures, and carries a stock of 

 the best grades of hardwood lumber. 



The Illinois Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 West Virginia has received a charter at Little 



