Talks before the Forestry Club 



At the bi-monthly meetings of the part employed by the Government, 



Club, short talks on current work although some are in other kinds of 



have been made as in the past. The forestry work, 

 meetings have been unusually alive 



and the talks even more than ever In Government employ- 

 to the point. The great profit in get- National United 'States 104 



ting out into the work itself during Canada 2 



the school course is very evident, and Philippine Islands . 

 the experiences which the men bring . 

 back with them put more ginger in- 

 to the class-room work than all the State United States 6 



texts. Forest 'Schools, teaching 20 



Lovejoy talked on the active work Private forestry 23 

 in the Forest Service. He aid he 



preferred to speak as one lately in In the Umted States Forest Service 



charge of over a million acres of the On :th e National Forests 



heaviest timber in the world, rather As Forest Assistant, 



than as a Professor of Forestry, and Deputy Forest Supervisor, 



to certify that there were two things and Forest Supervisor. .. 70 



any forester must have in order to In the Distri , ct offices and 



qualify: real training in a real school at Washington.. 11 

 of forestry, and there could not be 



too much of it; and real experience in Nursery work and planting. . 6 



the brush, living the life, and there On special investigations 



could not be too much of that either. Paithology 3 



To make good involves knowing what Grazing 3 



to do in the timber and how to do it. 



He said it was good to be back at the 



fountain-head of American forestry Experiment Station Work 3 



and that no one need worry about Miscellaneous 4 



there being room, and lots of it, for ln the United gtates Indian Foregt 



more men in the Forest Service, and Service 

 that the Service was now in a position 



to ask for the quality of men it Railro ^ forestry 5 



needed. Pulp and Paper companies 2 



Pottinger talked before the Club on Lumber companies y 



his work with the Pennsylvania Chest- p r i va te forest nurseries 



nut Blight Commission, illustrated with , 



slides furnished by that Commission. For e s try and Conservation associa- 



He emphasized the fact that a large 



item of this work is to find a market With Pennsylvania Chestnut Blight 



for the diseased timber, since it must Commission 3 



be cut at once. Consulting forestry 3 



Sponsler talked on "Opportunities City f ores try 



for the Forester." He gave some tab- ' 



ular statements that are interesting 5try ' 



in showing what the graduates are Timber Expert and Buyer 1 



doing. Of 168 men who have a for- of this 161 men who are in for- 

 estry school training-, estry, only 95 are actually in the 

 161 are in forestry work of some "brush." Almost 40 per cent are in 

 kind, work that keeps them away from the 

 7 are in other kinds of work. woods most of the time. Sponsler 

 They are distributed in various followed this up with an enumera- 

 parts of the world. 151 in the Unir- tion of about twenty different kinds 

 ed States, 9 in Canada, 6 in the Phil- of work that are open to the man 

 ippine Islands, 1 in Mexico, and 1 in with a forestry training and are 

 China. They are for the greater waiting for him. 



