94 Forestry Quarterly 



Second Annual Conference of the Woods Department, Berlin 

 Mills Company. November, 1914. Pp. 48. 



For elegance in bookmaking this report, issued for private 

 distribution, takes easily first rank. In its make-up it is most 

 worthy of the great company by which it is issued; paper and 

 print and illustrations are first-class; and as far as they go, the 

 articles, offerings by various members of the Woods Department 

 of the Berlin Mills and allied industries, are "all right." But so 

 far as forestry interests are concerned, they do not go far enough ! 

 What the forester would like to know is what the company is 

 doing in introducing forestry and other conservative methods, 

 since the company employs, according to its roster, not less than 

 four men called "foresters," and has employed foresters, as far 

 as the reviewer has knowledge, for more than a decade. Instead 

 of the very general discussion on "Applied Forestry," by de 

 Carteret, we would like to know how much of this theoretical 

 knowledge has it been possible to apply in the woods; instead of 

 the general article on "Forest Fire Protection" we wotild be 

 interested to know what means the company has employed and 

 with what success. And so with all seven articles of the contents ; 

 they lack the flavor of actual practice. Of course, we appreciate 

 that the object of these meetings and of this report are of a private 

 nature and probably mainly to bring the men, — 76 were reported 

 in attendance- — of the department together for the development 

 of an esprit de corps; but, since the General Manager, Mr. W. R. 

 Brown, is not only a Director of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion, but also a member of the New Hampshire Forestry Com- 

 mission, and Vice-President of the Society for the Protection of 

 New Hampshire Forests, we hope to induce him to consider whether 

 some time he might not let us know about the actual application 

 of forestry in the work of the company as far as such publication 

 cannot harm the interests of the company. 



One article which perhaps deserves special attention by foresters 

 is Mr. S. S. Lockyer's "Logging Plan for a Hypothetical Valley," 

 accompanied by maps, which perhaps hints at the actual work 

 done by the foresters of the Company, and which shows a con- 

 scientious analysis of the situation, and systematic procedure. 



B. E. F. 



