Photo by Scward D. Smith. 



The South Side Hardwoods, Planted With the Spade on Those Snowy Days, Have 

 Forgotten Their Troubles and Yours. 



The Saginaw Forest Farm 



Meditations and Contemplations Continued 



oxide is insufficient. 



VI. R. 79. To give Brother Wet- 

 more, now selling rubber balloon? 

 to innocuous Yankees in Mexico, a 

 chance to demonstrate to his fel- 

 lows that a man who is a man can 

 wield a mattock all day long rn tnat 

 heavy sod without dinner, and do 

 it far better than those of us who 

 stopped to satisfy inner grumblings. 



III. T. 8k. iiii. To extend to pack 

 trains and real men an excellent 

 place for demonstrating roughing 

 it, when field day comes around, on 

 the towering mountain slopes and 

 nbvsmic chasm walls on the south 

 side of the lake. 



II. C. To furnish a suitable mo- 

 rass for the annual camp-fire. This 

 worked well the first two years, but 

 since that time the increase in areo- 

 planes and hot air, with the conse- 

 quent noticeable weakening in per- 

 ambulatory proclivities, has induced 

 the removal of the fiery festival to 

 Cascade Glen. The shorter distance 

 of the latter from town enables 

 more of the men to get home the 

 same night after hearing the fac- 

 ulty's jokes. 



IV. B. A. B. Y. To bestow upon 

 all a chance for preliminary nursery 

 work. In the good old days many 

 of the budding foresters despised 

 tree planting, and professed to be 

 willing to leave such work to the 

 weaklings who were afraid of bears 

 and bucking bronchos. But from 

 the number of dainty envelopes con- 

 taining tiny cards with stork seals 

 in the corners, which have come to 

 Ann Arbor lately, we imagine that 

 there are now many who are grate- 

 ful for the nursery practice gotten 

 in those dreamy days on the farm. 



It has been discovered with regret 

 that one point under III. T. 8. k. iiii. 

 was omitted, which is, that the 

 water in the lake served a useful 

 purpose by keeping certain of the 

 fellows from settling in the mud at 

 its bottom, when overturned at the 

 field day last spring. This point is 

 so important that when we get time 

 a separate heading will be made for 

 it. 



Incidentally there are a few plan- 

 tations out on that farm. Most of 

 the eighty acres are now planted, 

 and there are something like fifty- 



