Idaho country. He claims Dickson, 

 '08, is running to petry and made a 

 whopper of a spiel at the great con- 

 servation meet at Ottawa. We must 

 get a report on this, Dickson. 



Peter Keplinger, '08, is at Wagon 

 Wheel Gap, Colorado, and is getting 

 'dope" for the final word on Forest 

 Influences. He has it down fine; 

 predicts run off to a drop (provided 

 no cow-punchers pass over the sacred 

 slope), and he says three Engelman's 

 produce an influence of 0.00025 de- 

 grees. Don't strain the glass, Kep- 

 linger, and all good luck to your 

 work. 



G. R. Green, '11, is still with Ohio; 

 is right into park, city and town for- 

 estry, has no use for German plant 

 stock; believes in hardwoods, and has 

 little hope for Engelman spruce and 

 blue spruce where tulip and syca- 

 more reign supreme. He says they 

 are planning a 1,000-acre forest re- 

 serve* in Ohio to head off the famine 

 in beer keg stock. Buy second hand 

 kegs, Green, you get the stock faster. 

 Bad forestry, but better business. 



Saxton, '10, says: "The blue moun- 

 tains and Indians for me," so he quit 

 the service and is joining Gutches 

 and Bedford. Best of luck to you, 

 Saxton. but don't send your letters 

 in Choctaw. 



Boerker, '11, is head over heels in 

 Forest Regulation. He says the Aus- 

 trian method is three points behind . 

 Hundeshagen, and he also thinks 

 this big area cutting with logging 

 chances of 10 townships is straining 

 Mulford's silviculture, case 3, under 

 d sub 3. We agree unconditionally, 

 Boerker. But Smithy says "it's 

 either more logslide or a landslide;" 

 so better the former. 



Blumer, '05, is cooling off at Sas- 

 katoon, Can. (After seven years of 

 Arizona cactus and goat milk, with 

 the milk usually left out, he deserves 

 this rest. Better make collections 

 with a "header" and steam traction; 

 it goes easier and sells better. Best 

 of luck to you, and keep a section 

 for a sort of foresters' rest. 



Farquhar, '09, is developing a new 

 hand (on paper, of course). Better 

 stop the development, Ffarquhar, and 



take to the typo. He says: "Green, 

 '11, is pulling out for Orchard Lake 

 and it leaves a sad gap here." Don't 

 wonder, for Green is all there. But 

 then, we can use some good men 

 back here in the state. 



"Dad" Peavy they call him, '05, 

 and "they are all crazy about him." 

 Such are the reports from Corvallis. 

 And this reporter KNOWS. So here 

 go the best of wishes. May Corval- 

 lis absorb Eugene and all its attrac- 

 tions, and prevent the usual see-saw 

 so hurtful to good education. 



And Sackett, '06, went and did it. 

 He is starting a branch office at Chi- 

 cago, and going into private work. 

 Bully for the boys; and may your en- 

 terprise prosper, Sackett. See Am- 

 erican Lumberman for particulars, 

 and bless 'Sackett in general for all 

 it is w r orth. It is time that foresters 

 get into the "game," the "water is 

 fine" and an education ought to help 

 sometimes, in spite of the recent as- 

 sertion that the men in the woods 

 should be endowed with a strong 

 back and a weak mind. Ignorance 

 may be a virtue and a fine quality, 

 but whether it takes proper care of 

 investments remains yet to be proven. 



Chaney, one of our former forestry 

 students, dropped in on us recently. 

 He has been working for the Detroit 

 Trust company for the past year, get- 

 ting mortgages on everything in 

 sight, and he says prospects are ex- 

 cellent that many will go bankrupt 

 on the strength of it. He says the 

 era of the forester is still ahead; that 

 thus far the bank makes the money 

 and the lumberman 'does the work. 

 The forester's spirit is getting the 

 best of Chaney, and he has his ticket 

 bought for Germany to see the real 

 article. From there he goes to the 

 Argentine Republic, and thence to 

 what he calls "God's country" Or- 

 egon. 



Brower, '08, writes from Ogden, 

 Utah, to state that he has been 

 transferred from the Lemhi to the 

 Uinta National Forest, where he is 

 to have charge of the nursery, which 

 has a present capacity of 4 million 

 seedlings 'per year. Best of luck to 

 you, Brower. Address, Kamas, Utah. 



