arrangements to have the survey and 

 preliminary work done by Pottinger, 

 President of the Club. Pottinger at 

 once left with a portable lantern and 

 a lot of slides and lectured evenings 

 at nearly every school-house in the 

 county, and during the day time 

 showed the farmers just what to do 

 in their woodlots. Busy times for 

 "Hank." 



Professor Lovejoy has been before 

 the Almont Grange and goes up to 

 Coopersville soon. 



At the November meeting of the 

 States Forestry Association, Lovejoy 

 was elected Secretary. When the call 

 for assistance was sent out by the 

 National Forestry Association conse- 

 quent to the development of the 

 "States Rights" proposal to turn the 

 National Forests and other public re- 

 sources over to the States (a polite 

 way of saying, "turn them over to 

 the grabbers"), he got busy and con- 

 ducted a little round-up of the 

 Michigan delegation in Congress. 

 Practically all of the delegation 

 have been lined up squarely against 

 the proposed transfer. The Associa- 

 tion will soon publish the replies. 



Professor Roth drafted three bills 

 which would do away with the old 

 political "let her burn" methods and 

 which would create a real State For- 

 ester wi.th powers to act. These bills 

 have been introduced in the Legisla- 

 ture and are now pending. The 

 State Association at once got out form 

 petitions supporting the proposed 

 laws. The Club did what it could by 

 signing and forwarding one of the 



petitions to the Governor. One of 

 theise days Michigan will find out that 

 she has been asleep too long and 

 that it will take many foresters and 

 much money to put iback what hao 

 been wasted. 



With a new Governor and a mixed 

 Legislature at Lansing, this year, it 

 looks as though there may be a 

 chance for some real action looking 

 towards Michigan's taking care of 

 her millions of acres of cut-over and 

 idle slash lands, and in forest fire 

 protection. 



The testing laboratory for forestry 

 students is being equipped with three 

 machines; one a 50,000-pound Riehle 

 of the Universal testing-machine type; 

 one a special bending machine, and 

 one for shearing work. These ma- 

 chines are specially selected, and two 

 are designed and made at the Univer- 

 sity. The plan is to have them of 

 such a form that the student is not 

 learning to "run a machine," but has 

 his attention on the study of the 

 wood and its behavior. For this rea- 

 son they are hand-power devices 

 with as little of the cumbersome and 

 complex as possible. Provisions are 

 made for either drying or soaking the 

 material, and also for convenient de- 

 termination of the specific weight of 

 all the specimens tested mechanically. 

 The determination is by water dis- 

 placement in special xylometers of a 

 form devised by Professor Roth when 

 he helped start the work on the in- 

 vestigations of United States timbers 

 back in the 80's. 



News from the Men in the Field 



Whiting Alden, '11, is now in Cal- 

 gary, Alberta, with the Canadian Pa- 

 cific Railway. After a strenuous sum- 

 mer in the picturesque wilds of the 

 Frazer River country, he put in a 

 busy fall surveying, estimating and 

 calculating the fire damage which the 

 railway was alleged to have done to 

 the properties of various timber own- 

 ers. Scientific measurements and cal- 

 culations as against rule-of-thumb 



and empirical guesswork, came out 

 victorious. The difference between 

 the man who understands and applies 

 forest valuation and the man who 

 merely brags on the length of time 

 he has been "estimating timber," was 

 very apparent, especially in court 

 where the clear statement, the anal- 

 ytic method of dealing with the prob- 

 lem, and the satisfactory explanation 

 of the manner of gathering the basic 



