five experimental plots. Impossible 

 as it may seem, at least a few of 

 these plantations have actually be- 

 come bigger people than Daddy 

 Roth. 



The borers are practicing Borg- 

 ets. Mice and rabbits are giving 

 free demonstrations of weeding in 

 the young stand. The ancestor of 

 the June bug is proving that under- 

 ground root pruning can be done 

 and brings results. But these things 

 are all incidentals. The lake is still 

 greve's thinning in the locust thick- 



there. So are the stones and the 

 mice. So are about 85 per cent of 

 the trees which have been planted, 

 and nearly all are making satisfac- 

 tory growth. 



The old farm sends you a mes- 

 sage : come see it and us. Follow 

 the established custom of coming to 

 Ann Arbor on your wedding trip, 

 and be sure to bring her along on 

 that trip. Some of the plantations 

 are already big enough for she and 

 you to almost get lost in. 



MULFORD. 



News of the Men in School 



November 27, Professor Roth de- 

 livered an address, in the Unitarian 

 Church, on the "Ethics of Conser- 

 vation." 



At the annual meeting of the 

 Michigan State Forestry Associa- 

 tion, held at Kalamazoo, Michigan, 

 Professors Roth and Mulford de- 

 livered popular illustrated lectures. 

 D. C. Burch, 1912 Forester, spoke 

 of his summer's experiences in fire 

 fighting in Montana. 



Much credit is due to the Execu- 

 tive Committee for their efforts and 

 work in making the Club meetings 

 more instructive and interesting 

 than ever before. The talks given 

 by the student members are illus- 

 trated with lantern slides, from 

 views taken by the speakers during 

 the summer vacation. The work of 

 preparing these slides has been gen- 

 erously carried on by Mr. McCarthy, 

 at considerable sacrifice on his part. 



November 16, President Young 

 gave an illustrated talk of his sum- 

 mer's work on the Montezuma Na- 

 tional Forest. 



December 7, Mr. G. W. Lyons 

 entertained a very large audience 

 with an illustrated talk, entitled, 

 "A Three Months' Pleasure Trip 

 Through the Sierras." 



Change of Quarters. Due to the 

 rapidly increasing numbers in the 

 Forestry Department, as well as to 



the new courses offered, the old 

 rooms in West Hall and University 

 Hall have become inadequate. Ac- 

 cordingly new "Stamping Grounds" 

 have been provided in the Economics 

 Building, as the old Chemistry 

 Building, much remodeled and irn- 

 proved, has been christened. 



Professor Roth still holds forth 

 in his old quarters in Room 26, which 

 has been furnished up as a lecture 

 "hall." In the Economics Building, 

 the foresters have a class room on 

 the first floor, and in the basement a 

 large laboratory for mensuration 

 and wood technology and a smaller 

 silviculture laboratory. In connec- 

 tion with this silviculture laboratory, 

 a silviculture greenhouse is being 

 built adjoining the new greenhouse 

 in the Botanical Gardens. 



The wood sections and discs of 

 "stem analysis" fame have been 

 transferred to the mensuration lab- 

 oratory, where they are being tested 

 by a slow process of preservation, 

 the preservative being the fumes 

 arising from the new asphalt floor, 

 which stubbornly refuses to harden. 

 Meanwhile the boys are standing on 

 chairs, debating whether to use 

 snow-shoes or stilts. 



The lights appropriated by "eco- 

 nomics," has left no light in the lab- 

 oratory, except what comes through 

 Mr. Hill. But where there is light 

 there is hope, for whatever the 

 changes it can't be worse. 



