364 Forestry Quarterly 



The Minnesota Forestry Association has effected combination 

 with the Game Protective League in making the little, neat 

 publication, The North Woods, the official organ of both Asso- 

 ciations, under the title, The North Woods and Wild Life. 



During a Southern Logging Association meeting two hundred 

 and twenty-three questions concerning pine operations were sub- 

 mitted to the logging superintendents present. These questions, 

 with a summary of the answers, are given in the Southern Lum- 

 berman, of October, 1913. They include many phases of the log- 

 ging business, varying from costs of different operations to kinds 

 of animals used for skidding, food value of different grains, kinds 

 and sizes of different parts of equipment, camp board, amuse- 

 ment, home life of men, wages, durability of equipment, and 

 many other items. The answers are illuminating, in spite of the 

 small number answering each question. 



Yale Forest School is about to institute "research and instruc- 

 tion in tropical forestry" and has appropriated $5,000 for two 

 years for this purpose, to start the new enterprise the next 

 academic year. 



The New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse Univer- 

 sity, announces University Extension work in forestry, in charge 

 of Shirley W. Allen. In the circular, it is announced that four 

 technical foresters give their entire time to this State-wide edu- 

 cational work. The College offers a regular reading course in 

 Lumber and Its Uses, for which a charge of $5 is made. A travel- 

 ing forestry library is also one of the methods employed. 



An interesting development in the education of the general 

 public to secure a proper attitude towards forestry is the sum- 

 mer camp in the Adirondacks instituted by the New York State 

 College of Forestry three years ago, which is designed especially 

 for high school boys. The camp for 1916 will open on August 2, 

 at Raquette Lake Station, under supervision of W. A. McDonald, 

 who will give instruction in elementary forestry and woodcraft 

 through the month. Lectures on plant relationships, on com- 

 mon animals and insects, and on beneficial and injurious fungi, 

 will be given by specialists. 



