538 forestry Quarterly. 



distant. The second part, with 82 pages, refers to the work in 

 the woods, with chapters on forest labor, camps, tools and equip- 

 ment, felling and log making, and measurement of logs and other 

 forest products. Parts III and I\^ on Land and Water Trans- 

 port, take up the bulk of the volume with 288 pages, nearly 100 

 pages alone being devoted to railroads. A short chapter of 24 

 pages, points out differences of procedure in various regions. 

 Another two chapters, of 28 pages, describe two minor forest in- 

 dustries which come under the operation of loggers, namely tur- 

 pentine orcharding and tanbark harvest. An appendix of 80 

 pages contains a complete classified bibliography; a terminology; 

 various log rules and tables ; log-grading rules ; wage lists ; stump- 

 age values, and some other information. An Index of nearly 50 

 pages makes information on every point readily accessible. 



Altogether, the volume appears to be a most painstaking piece 

 of bookmaking, both on the author's and the publishers' part. 

 We regret that it reached the reviewer too late for more than 

 this book notice, but we are fortunate in being able to add below 

 tlie reflections which the book has called forth in the nimd of an 

 experienced practical logger, also a former student of the New 

 York State College of Forestry at Cornell University, with ten 

 years experience in logging camps. 



B. E. F. 



No one can learn to log from a book. Still the greatest need 

 the North American logger has to-day is book knowledge — for 

 the 'ogger is deficient in the knowledge of the doings of others — 

 a knowledge to be gained only by travel or from books. 



The logger is made by experience, his own experience or that 

 of neighbors — he needs the experience of other regions, other 

 conditions of ground, timber, climate, men. It is this experience 

 of many conditions which should be recorded in the book which 

 would serve the logger. 



There is no class of men the world over so efficient in them- 

 selves — and in comparison — so lacking in the efficiency due to 

 breadth of knowledge, as the logger. 



Strange as it may seem, logging methods the world over are 

 gradually approaching uniformity — the spruce of ]\Iaine — the 

 cypress of Louisiana — the fir of the Coast — the pine of the In- 

 land Empire, in the past exploited by such widely different meth- 



