work out by careful and continued 

 systematic observations and by var- 

 ious carefully planned experiments, 

 the best methods of gathering-, clean- 

 ing and storing seeds, of raising small 

 trees in nurseries, of planting these 

 trees with reference to age and time 

 of year; ailso the best ways of treating 

 stands of timber, as regards the ex- 

 tent to which they Should be thinned; 

 and the best methods of marking and 

 cutting in order to secure good nat- 

 ural reproduction. There are many 

 side lines: the exact tolerance of 

 shade, the possiblities of Arizona 

 Pine for turpentine production, the 

 resistance of these forest to ordinary 

 fires, etc., etc. Scherer likes experi- 

 mentation, is interested in farmlands, 

 and is great on artesion water (a rem- 

 nant of his life as pilot on Lake Erie 

 where they had to bore occasionally 

 to get water enough to run into San- 

 dusky). He also likes cultured society, 

 books, and theatres, which is a sure 

 sign that something- is up. 



Ngan Han, '11, is at Peking, China, 

 helps edit the Peking Daily News, 

 "English Edition" (evidently got the 

 habit here at College) and at the same 

 time acts as Chief of Forestry in the 

 Department of Agriculture and For- 

 estry. He says a rickshaw is O. K., 

 but he believes in an Interurban 

 Limited (preference for the Ypsi line). 

 He sends his regards in the form of 

 Chinese Agricultural monthly bullet- 

 ins, and the Club is getting used to 

 the little peculiarities of beginning at 

 the end and reading up and down the 

 page. The only trouble comes when 

 Han puts a whole series of volume 

 tables into one 2haracter. But cheer 

 up Han, yours is a great chance, and 

 don't forget the books on forestry 

 in Chinese and the needs for imme- 

 diate teaching work on the largest 

 possible scale. You need many men, 

 more than you need many great ex- 

 perts to start with. 



Stretch, '07, cam. : n and told us of 

 the Medicine Bov, Forest and the 

 lodgepole pine. Stretch is quite ex- 



pert on this species, and Lovejoy says 

 Stretch knows more a.bout lodgepole 

 than any other man in the world. 

 This is a record worth having, and it 

 comes to Stretch because he was will- 

 ing to stay in one place for years, 

 work with one s/pecies of tree, and use 

 his foeat efforts to learn and to do. 

 The "Bow" is fine; it is 8,000 feet 

 nearer Heaven than New York (to 

 say nothing of Denver); but the win- 

 ters are long and the summers abbre- 

 viated at both end? (and often miss- 

 ing in the middle) so that it takes 

 Senator Shaf roth's 200 years to make 

 a tree. Perhaps this "Bow" country, 

 too, ought to be given over to lemons 

 and eucalypysts; or. perhaps, it is the 

 Big Creek Cattle Company or the 

 Union Pacific Railway, through its 

 timber company, which needs that 

 forest. Stretch, however, keeps peg- 

 ging along; he has a very complete 

 set of maps and inventory; he knows 

 the Forest by 40-acre tracts, and 

 knows where the tracts actually are. 

 He says a 200 year rotation is a lit- 

 tle high, but then the timber must be 

 big enough for tie stuff. He is regu- 

 lating by the Austrian method, and he 

 agreed that Regulation is Forestry, 

 and is full of fun. This business of 

 regulating the cuit is spreading. To 

 prevent overcutting-, as well as to pre- 

 vent waste by old timber dying and 

 decaying before it is reached in the 

 business of timber sales, is a very im- 

 portant job and is just coming into its 

 own. It was "theoretic stuff" eight 

 years ago; but now Hundeshagen is 

 quoted in the "Deerlodge Ranger" and 

 other papers issued on different For- 

 ests. By the way, these local papers 

 are, to-day, the very cream of forest 

 literature; so we hope that the "Mich- 

 igan Forester" will be put on the 

 mailing list of all rhese publications. 

 Cronk, '12, has worked with pri- 

 vate concerns in British Columbia sur- 

 veying, cruising, and organizing a for- 

 est fire protection for large areas 

 of valua'ble holdings. It seems the 

 spirit of the salmon and the moun- 

 tain goat is in his system, for he 



