THE DIVERSIFIED FARM. 



DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



The appointment of Mr. Henry S. 

 Graves as Professor of Forestry in the Yale 

 Forest School, and of Professor J. W. 

 Tourney, as his assistant, has recently de- 

 prived the Division of Forestry of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture of two of its 

 heads of sections. Mr. Graves has been 

 Superintendent of Working Plans since 

 his section was organized; and Prof. 

 Tourney has been Superintendent of Tree 

 Planting since his first connection with 

 the Division. Under Mr. Graves' admin- 

 istration, the section of working plans has, 

 in accordance with a policy of co-operating 

 with lumbermen, state forest officers, 

 farmers, and others who desire to manage 

 their wood lots according to sound forest 

 principles, furnished a larger portion of 

 the rapid growth which has characterized 

 the Division of Forestry in the last two 

 years. Beginning with a comparatively 

 small area, the applications for working 

 plans have now extended to approxi- 

 mately 50,000,000 acres, including all the 

 National Forest Reserves, the whole of 

 the Forest Preserve of the State of New 

 York in the Adirondacks and Catskills, 

 and about 2, 000, 000 acres of private lands. 

 Under Prof. Tourney's aduiinistrat'on, the 

 Section of Tree Planting, organized on a 

 similar co-operative basis, bas had marked 

 success, and is now thoroughly established 

 in a career of special usefulness. 



So firmly have the organizations which 

 these gentlemen have conducted been es- 

 tablished under them, that the work 

 which they have thus far carried on will 

 suffer no interruption by their departure. 

 Mr. Graves' place as Superintendent of 

 Working Plans and Assistant Chief will 

 be taken by Mr. Overton W. Price, of the 



Division. Before entering the Division 

 Mr. Price had an exceptionally thorough 

 training as a forrester. After graduating 

 from the University of Virginia he studied 

 at Biltmore,N C., and thus was at the great 

 advantage when he went abroad of having 

 already had practical experience in this 

 country. He spent nearly three years in 

 Europe, chiefly in Switzerland and Ger- 

 many. In Germany he worked under Sir 

 Dietrich Braudis, formerly director of the 

 British forest service in India, and also 

 studied at Munich. He entered the Di- 

 vision of Forestry a year ago and since 

 then has been chiefly engaged on working 

 plans as a field expert. The position of 

 Superintendent of Tree Planting is yet to 

 be filled. 



An investigation of forest fires and 

 reforestation on burnt areas is now being 

 pursued by the Division of Forestry of the 

 Department of Agriculture through Prof. 

 C. S. Crandall, lately of the Colorado Ex- 

 periment Stacion at Fort Collins. This 

 work, which Professor Crandall began 

 some years ago as a collaborator of the 

 Division, will be carried on chiefly in the 

 northern part of the state, where the 

 prevalence of liodgepole Pine makes the 

 conditions very different from those in the 

 South. The investigation is an important 

 one, for until the forester knows what to 

 expect from fire and how to deal with 

 burnt-over areas, he can do little in a re- 

 gion where burning has been as extensive 

 and is still as common as in Colorado. 



In this investigation the examination of 

 the first stages of reforestation will be 

 made on areas of which some were burned 

 over thirteen years ago, ^nd on which 

 Prof. Crandall has already made surveys 

 and recorded progress at different periods 



