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ods, will, with the broadening knowledge and the improvement 

 of equipment, eventually be exploited by methods almost identical. 

 The railroad will replace the skid road, the stream, the sled 

 road and the wagon. The portable cable-way skidder will re- 

 place the skidding team, the high wheels and the donkey en- 

 gine. The portable car camp will replace the shanty, the log 

 camp, the shake camp. It will then be realized that the day of 

 the old "boss" and "bully" and "push" are gone — that logging 

 is a science as well as an art — that the logger is really an engineer, 

 mechanical, civil and electrical. 



There is now needed for the logger a book, or many books, to 

 broaden his knowledge, to bring to him the knowledge of others, 

 to make him equal without expensive errors, to new conditions that 

 may arise. 



A book of details is necessary- ; one to tell him why a Baldwin 

 Geared Locomotive is better for him than a Shay; how to tell 

 Norway iron from mild steel ; how to cut for scale with the 

 Maine rule; why a 6x19 rope makes a better loading line than a 

 9x9x1 ; which oil burner is best in a donkey ; how to test lubri- 

 cating oils ; all the million details that the logger now has to learn 

 by trial and error. 



The book the logger needs will perhaps never be written, prob- 

 ably no logger to-day has the breadth of experience making him 

 capable to do such a general book. If he had he would be too 

 busy to write. It will remain for the onlooker to do the writing. 



We have in R. C. Bryant the first of these observers to 

 systematically and extensively put down what he has seen and 

 heard of logging. Bryant never has logged, but he has written 

 a book about logging as an outline for forest students. This 

 book will have doubtless a further use than its intention of giving 

 a general idea of logging systems' to forestry students. One 

 use will be, it is hoped, that some of the forestry teachers may 

 see the great ignorance most of the so-called foresters have of 

 the major factor in the present management of forests for rev- 

 enue: "EXPLOITATION." 



Again, Bryant may be followed by others who will build upon 

 his work, and, in time, the book of the logger may be produced, 



Bryant's book is a good book for its purpose of student in- 

 struction — anyone who knows logging, who has tried to impart 



