'Flapjack" MeU-alf At Homo. 



facts, made quite an impression. They 

 now say some pretty nice things, in 

 the Northwest, about these "book-for- 

 esters"; and one official remarked, 

 "No more rule-of-thumb men for me." 

 And Alden "savvys" the cayuse, too. 

 Stuck for money and transportation, 

 unable to make connections with 

 headquarters, he bought a pack outfit 

 on circumstantial credit, used it for 

 weeks and sold it in the North Coun- 

 try for more than he paid. "Sand 

 and Savvy" wins. 



Farquhar, '09, is the "planting 

 sharp," of District 1. He hats charge 

 of the work of gathering the seeds 

 and running the nurseries; has, lit- 

 erally, (millions of trees and makes 

 them grow where only the bare burn 

 prevailed. His reward ought to be 

 great, even if his crop will not be 

 ready for harvest for a hundred years. 

 It is a great work, this reclothing of 



the great mountains, devastated by 

 the foolish and wicked who have been 

 encouraged by the Inaction of a half- 

 hearted, politician Government. But 

 Farquhar is having- trouble to aver- 

 age his costs. He finds it quite hard 

 to average species, areas and periods. 

 Keep them separate, Farquhar, keep 

 them separate, and let the truth pre- 

 vail, regardless. Some jobs will be 

 cheap and good, others will cost a 

 pile of money and then be poor. They 

 both need to be done, and they both 

 teach a lesson. The sooner our peo- 

 ple realize that it may cost $100 an 

 acre in some places to reclaim a 

 waste, the sooner they will take some 

 interest in preventing the increase of 

 wastes. 



Fay G. Clark, '12, put in a busy sea- 

 son on the St. Joe "Blister," as he 

 calls this National Forest, where the 

 great fires of 1910 killed and destroy- 



