ness" and ''business is not college." 

 Well, that is the general experience, 

 and Hopkins says he knew that be- 

 fore. 



Roy Pierce, in Nebraska, is still 

 waiting and \vatching. He says some 

 of the older plantations are nearly 

 due to appear above the sand, but 

 he is uncertain whether they are go- 

 ing or coming. Most likely they are 

 gone, Pierce. But cheer up : with the 

 progress in photometry (whatever 

 that means), you will get the cypress 

 to push out enough knees to take 

 a portion of that sand hill in its 

 lap and just simply make it behave. 



Clapp is at Washington and work- 

 ing with the "Big Man" of the ser- 

 vice, William Greely. Congratula- 

 tions are in order; it is a privilege 

 to be with Greely and it is fine to 

 have such a pair at the head of silvi- 

 culture. 



Clyde Leavitt is in the Appalachian 

 work. Buy them up, the more the 

 better. Xo state in the Union makes 

 a mistake in buying lands for fores- 

 try, and surely the Union itself, least 

 of all. 



Xgan Han is taking additional 

 work in agriculture at Madison. At 

 the same time he is secretary of the 

 Chinese Xational Union. His place 

 in the school has been taken by two 

 bright young men, Messrs. Y. F. Hsu 

 and S. M. Shen. The club is glad 

 to welcome and to see here, these 

 young men of the mother of empires, 

 where forestry is so much needed. 



Mulford is getting settled at Cor- 

 nell ; his classes are strong on co- 

 eds, so that even the Jubilee watch 

 has a slight palpitation. He says he 

 is homesick; no wonder, the matter is 

 mutual. 



John Stephen, '07, is still in Sala- 

 mancal, X. Y. He had a bad case of 

 typhoid, but then, like a good Michi- 

 gan man, he would not be clowned 

 that way. We all rejoice with you, 

 Stephen, and wish you good health 

 "ever after." 



Heber Stout hobnobs now with the 

 brown men of Negros. Just to show 



that he really has learned things 

 native, he sent a regulation bolo to 

 Prof. Roth and advised its use in 

 the forestry study for anything from 

 "picking teeth to grafting." We 

 didn't know that graft had even gone 

 to Negros, Stout. If it has, use the 

 bolo freely and make an improve- 

 ment cutting of degree D. Even 

 "clear cut" is advisable if the soil 

 moisture permits ; see IV n. 



The 1911 bunch are all properly 

 settled. Most of them found some- 

 thing to do and havn't time to write 

 or even to continue their course in 

 "fussing." 



As&istant Professor McCarthy; 

 sounds pretty good, does it not ? Well, 

 that is what it is and at Syracuse at 

 that, re-establishing the old state col- 

 lege of forestry, the first American 

 school in forestry. 



Lyons is in the El Dorado, evidently 

 in more sense than one. It is his- 

 toric ground, and "Placerville" tells 

 the story. He says breaking in M. 

 A. C. and Iowa men is much like 

 "broncho" work, thankful when the 

 pack sticks. But then to be among 

 the sugar and western yellow pine in 

 the timber 150 feet tall and Sierra 

 scenery thrown in to say nothing of 

 nearer attractions ; surely this makes 

 up for all troubles. Just now he is 

 studying "quality accretion" in Tum- 

 ion. Our best wishes Lyons. 



"Adaptability, initiative and self- 

 reliance seem to be the strong points 

 with the boys from Michigan," says 

 our friend, R. D. It was Winegar, 

 Alden, Daniels, Jennings and Lind- 

 say who spread the name of Michigan 

 in the lands of Muskeags and the 

 Selkirks. 



Goode is helping to look up the lands 

 to be purchased in the Appalachians. 



Gould is with Products. 



Nellis is ciphering out a new for- 

 mula for taking census on prices. 

 Please use the "Se" and see that 

 stumpage gets where it is worth 

 .while. 



Kotok never did want a small job, 

 so he struck out for the Father of 



