auditor wouldn't relieve him of a 

 lost log scale, and the Assistant Dis- 

 trict Foresters in Silviculture and 

 Operation and Lands and Grazing 

 and Products got out circular letters 

 by the score, each demanding one 

 or more special reports, which the 

 Forest Assistant laboriously prepar- 

 ed, only to have them returned, for 

 the District officers are keen for 

 absolute accuracy and nothing seems 

 to please them more than "return- 

 ing for correction" some carefully 

 prepared and much-cherished report, 

 and the worst of it is that they've 

 got you, and you have to correct 

 and reconsider whether you want 

 to or not. 



The Forest Assistant got mighty 

 tired of it as every one does but 

 he kept on plugging and learned how 

 to build fence and corduroy and 

 how to use an axe, and what the 

 Lord intended a peavie for, and he 

 became familiar with the habits of 

 the whiffle and it and the whirling 

 whimpus and the side hill gouger, 

 and the other wild beasts he saw 

 daily in the forest. And gradually 

 the Se formulas and capillary attrac- 



tion and the functions of the fibro 

 vascular bundles and other things he 

 once knew, slipped from his mind, 

 to be replaced by things which he 

 r.sed oftener. 



He learned to cut out his line of 

 would-be technical talk, thereby 

 saving his Super's temper and his 

 own feelings, and gave up hopes of 

 ever having a silvical report pub- 

 lished, and now he dreams of the 

 time when a report will be accepted 

 without a single return for correc- 

 tion, when the mimeograph machine 

 in the D. O. will get smashed and 

 circular letters cease to come on 

 every mail when he will get a raise, 

 and, dream of dreams, when he will 

 have a chance to use those good old 

 formulae and really practice for- 

 estry. But he knows they are only 

 dreams, which will never come true. 



So he plugs away, with true west- 

 ern optimism, and with the rangers 

 tries to 

 Make two shoots to shoot their 



shoots 

 Where one shoot shot before. 



J. L. C, '09. 



News of the Men in The Field 



PIERCE Holding down the "job" on 

 the Nebraska making three trees 

 grow where sand blew before. 



MARIS and STEWART Now on re- 

 connaissance on the La Saal, the 

 land of mammoth natural bridges. 



HOPKINS and DE NANCREDE Are 

 connected with the Land Office of 

 the Northern Pacific. 



LOVEJOY Has been transferred to 

 the more important forest, the 

 Olympic, as Forest Supervisor. 



STOUT Who is spreading the Mich- 

 igan tepirit over the Island of 

 Negros, has sent to Prof. Roth a 

 bolo. He has this to say about 

 the instrument: "We use the bplo 

 for everything from cutting 

 bush to cuting wood for 

 camp fires and opening cans. 

 It takes the place of saw, hammer, 



axe, finger-nail cleaner, paper- 

 knife, lawn mower and can be 

 used as a protective instrument 

 against our enemies. Why are 

 they not introduced into the 

 Forest Service in the United 

 States? They are much more 

 convenient to carry than an axe 

 and more useful than a hatchet. 

 They could be imported from 

 Manila from $1.00 to $2.00." 



BEDFORD On May 19, 1911, at 7:30 

 a. m., the Class of 1910 had an 

 increase in its membership by the 

 arrival of John Montgomery, Jr. 

 This makes a 6% 'increase. 



CRAIG Paid a visit to Ann Arbor 

 and discussed the ins and outs of 

 private forestry. 



WETMORE In the land of political 

 cyclones, neither stunned nor 



