partment says that "muskeag" on 

 the Nelson is O. K. for spuds, and all 

 it needs is drainage and weather. 

 There are other places which make 

 few demands, and merely call for 

 cooler weather and more water. But 

 it is all hopeful; better some action 

 than mere politics. 



S. D. Smith at Denver put out a 

 big report on planting and seeding 

 on District 2. It is a good one and 

 simply proves that Smith lives up to 

 his old convictions. Work, and more 

 work is his motto, and it wins. This 

 is great work the District is doing; 

 it will not only pave the way for the 

 right ways of re-stocking artificially, 

 but save millions of useless effort la- 

 ter, besides teaching our people a 

 lesson which they needed long ago. 

 Any fool and box af matches can un- 

 make more forest than a thousand 

 men and a million dollars can put 

 back on the land. In the Sunday 

 School and magazine we know this 

 well; but in practice it is an un- 

 known and is not even believed upon 

 demonstration. .Some people in Col- 

 orado need a great deal to be con- 

 vinced almost as much as a leg- 

 islature. 



Moody, '06, Professor of the Ran- 

 ger School and Assistant State For- 

 ester of Wisconsin, is in the mess up 

 to his neck. The "sand-pipers," land 

 swindlers, and pettyfoggers are rais- 

 ing- the bi-ennial disturbance, and 

 are "cussing out" Forestry and the 

 progressive program at Madison, and 

 the leaders of the people. It is lively 

 times there, and perhaps these fel- 

 lows are doing more good for For- 

 estry than they have any idea of. It 

 is by struggle that the people learn 

 of the great things doing. That some 

 of the Germans, like a certain Mr. 

 Huth of Burnett county, should raise 



a howl against a work and an indus- 

 try so distinctly German in its origin 

 merely proves that mutt is mutt, re- 

 gardless of nationality. 



Bedford, '10, is right into timber 

 sales, gets $'].7'5 stumpage for Yel- 

 low Pine at Klamath, Oregon, and 

 things are going up with a whoop. 

 He reports that Chittenden has re- 

 signed. Let us hope that the good 

 work of the Indian 'Service will se- 

 cure a first class man. It was a great 

 pity they lost Gutches, '09, for he 

 was just the man to get things mov- 

 ing. 



IStrothman, '10, owned up and 

 properly sent in his card of capitula- 

 tion to M'iss Boardman, now Mrs. 

 Strothman. Strothman is up and do- 

 ing, and it is 3i3,000 acres of recon- 

 naissance for a timiber sale, and that 

 means going some. The California 

 is joining the ranks of the active 

 ones; and it is not only surprising, 

 but also gratifying, to see how rap- 

 idly the lumber concerns are seeing 

 the light (or is it the handwriting) 

 and are jumping in and getting in 

 line for future stumpage on the new 

 plan. In twenty years, some of the 

 blind ones will kick themselves when 

 they find how much more satisfac- 

 tory the National Forest sales are 

 than the owning of large tracts 

 where they run all chances of dam- 

 age from fire, from tax-confiscation, 

 and where it takes a constant news- 

 paper lobby and political gang to 

 keep possession. (Strothman is on 

 the insect job too; and it is quite amus- 

 ing to us older ones to see the Ser- 

 vice cutting, barking, and burning 

 out these pests, when but a few 

 years ago even some of our Forestry 

 "lights" ridiculed all effort of this 

 kind. (But insect control is right; 

 and it is only the fool and the cow- 



