Stretch, Merrill and King. We also 

 had a delightful visit from Doctor 

 H. N. Whitford of the Philippine Ser- 

 vice who has worked with Everett, 

 '04, Matthews, '08, and with Curran 

 (Cornell, 1900). Ke has put real sci- 

 ence and sense into the forest work 

 on the Islands. 



Bedford, '10, blew in and in his 

 usual quiet and enjoyable way told us 

 all about it. He is forester in the In- 

 dian Department, is located at the 

 Klamath Agency, Oregon, and has 

 charge of a forest of yellow pine of 

 nearly 1,000,000 acres extent. He has 

 a detail survey, good maps, plenty of 

 rangers (part Indians), plenty of 

 telephone lines, and some good roads 

 and trail to enable him to get around 

 and watch for fires and fight them, 

 it is great location; the market is 

 good, $4.00 stumpage, and a stand 

 of merchantable timber amounting to 

 over 11,000,000,000 feet board meas- 

 ure. Bedford figures on cutting over 

 100,000,000 feet per year. He wants 

 to prevent a large waste of old tim- 

 ber, and at the same time leave the 

 stand in the best possible rshajpe for fire 

 protection. The plan, it seems, is to 

 go over the entire forest with a selec- 

 tion cut and take out 40 per centof the 

 stand, including most of the old tim- 

 ber. This will require about 50 years 

 or less and will leave a fair stand of 

 medium-sized timber, and in this way- 

 prevent the development of large 

 areas of reproduction which would 

 make successful fire protection al- 

 most impossible. Bedford has a good 

 house, electric lights, water supply, 

 and team furnished, and all in all 

 his layout is about as perfect a 

 Forester's position as exists to- 

 day anywhere in the New World. 



Nellis, '11, has been in "Products," 

 making statistical studies of the 

 wood-using industries of different 

 States, going from town to town and 

 visiting all the establishments in per- 

 son, getting "dope," and preaching 

 the good gospel of forestry. He is 

 about to enter new lines, and expects 

 to get nearer the "b~ush" and more 

 into the regular forest practice. 



Rex King, '10, dropped in and told 



us of the land examination work as at 

 present carried on in the National 

 Forests in Arkansas. This work is 

 one of the special affairs of Congress, 

 and is intended to give exact infor- 

 mation as to every piece of land, 

 whether it is better suited to agricul- 

 ture or to forestry; and if the former, 

 whether it should be eliminated from 

 the forest. Expert men of the Bureau 

 of Soils accompany the foresters and 

 King says it is quite surprising what 

 notions some people have as to land 

 and its capacity to produce crops. 



Morrill, '12, spent a few days in 

 town, and told of his experience in 

 city forestry at IMishawaka, Indiana. 

 He and Noyes, '12, went out and 

 made a place for themselves. It was 

 not a city jofo with a salary; they 

 simply went to work, trimming trees, 

 planting trees and shrubs, and get- 

 ting street trees and yards in order 

 for different people. "Yes," said 

 Morrill, "there is a living in it; we 

 made more than others in the woods, 

 but I don't like to give up my real 

 career, and I am going back to regu- 

 lar forestry work in the near future." 



Cofobs, '09, returned to the lan'd of 

 sunshine and magnolia. And it was 

 no "call of the wild'' either, just sim- 

 ply Miss Jessie Grey Ware of Mont- 

 gomery, Alabama; but it was effec- 

 tive and brought Cobbs from District 

 1. His initiation in North Dakota, 

 cruising the bleak hills, hailf woods 

 and half prairie, all one winter tested 

 Cobbs' mettle. There is a big field 

 in the South and Cobbs is one of the 

 men for the job. 



That Young, '11, married Mies 

 Frances Graham is merely a matter 

 of record here. The good wishes, a 

 whole basketful, have been submit- 

 ted. 



Bruner, '12, is in the Appalachian 

 work; surveying, cruising, mapping 

 and otherwise examining every tract 

 of timberland offere-3 by different peo- 

 ple to the United States for purchase 

 under the Weeks Act. This is great 

 work and suits Bruner, and Bruner 



