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felled. Anyone who has ever passed over a section recentlj^ 

 logged has no doubt been struck with the number of these high 

 stumps and sawed-off butts. 



On the other hand, such an one is even more forcibly impressed 

 with the enormous waste in the " lap." Here the waste is evi- 

 dent in every tree cut. Above the first considerable limb, the 

 body of the tree is left in the wood, not only an absolute waste, 

 but to afford fuel to a fierce fire that sooner or later helps along 

 powerfully to destroy the possibility of new growth. It is a com- 

 mon thing to see from loo to i,ooo feet of timber left in one of 

 those ' ' laps ' ' that cannot under present conditions be profitably 

 manufactured. 



For the present almost the onl}' practical economy in timber 

 cutting that offers a sure realization is in intelligent logging — to 

 cut only the trees that have attained full growth, leaving the 

 others for the future, and carefully collecting the present waste 

 and burning it where it will do no damage. When all the big 

 stumpage owners recognize, as some of them do now, that there 

 is more in cutting the mature trees and letting the others stand, 

 than in " clearing the ground " as they go, and that if they can- 

 not operate on the former plan they are losing money every day 

 the mills run, we will have entered upon a practical forestry that 

 means something, and incidentally we will have given a stability 

 to lumber values based upon actual facts and not pure specula- 

 tion . — Southern Lu7nbernian . 



COI.I.EGE NOTES. 



The third Annual Supper of the Cornell Foresters was held 

 at the New Ithaca Hotel, on February 13th. 



About seventy members and guests were present. The follow- 

 ing graduates returned: C. R. Pettis, '01, Abraham Knechtel, 

 '01, E. A. SterHng, '02. The toasts were responded to with the 

 usual good spirit, as follows : " The College," Dr. B. E. Fernow ; 

 "Forestry — what it isn't," H. F. Weiss, '05: "Around Maine 

 Campfires," G. B. Lull, '04; "With the Lumber Jacks," Mr. 

 H. A. Field ; " Our Natural Science Courses," R. S. Sloan, '05 ; 

 "Suggestions," E. A. Sterling, '02; " Axton Stunts," A. S. 

 Williams, '03. The Toastmaster, Dr. John Gifford, was absent 

 because of severe illness, and Mr. H. O. Stabler, Sp., took his 

 place. At the close a Foresters' Song, specially written for the 

 occasion, was sung in chorus. 



