ard who lie down on the fight. 



Stretch, '07, who has held down 

 the "Bow" for years, has been strick- 

 en with the "Wanderlust," has 

 shifted to the Great Basin, and no 

 doubt will turn up on the Coast. Just 

 exactly right, and the best luck go 

 with you. 



Farquhar, '09, is the planting sharp 

 of District 1, and his report for 1912 

 iis one of the best. These reports are 

 rapidly (becoming real forest litera- 

 ture, and the time is near when our 

 old promises are made good and 

 Forestry in its practice and litera- 

 ture will be remade by the men in 

 the "brush." There is nothing in 

 the English language in print that 

 can touch Farquhar's report on artifi- 

 cial restocking. It is a pleasure to 

 see, too, how the idea of order and 

 good language permeates these re- 

 ports, and is evidently spreading and 

 taking root in the practice. The 

 problem of seeding as against plant- 

 ing is probably not yet a settled one, 

 but Farquhar and Smith fully agree 

 that the seeding method thus far has 

 been more cheap than useful, and 

 will in many cases cost more money 

 per acre before an actual stand is 

 established than does planting. But 

 it took a fair trial on a big enough 

 scale before we could really know 

 this; and the men who did this seed- 

 ing faithfully and thus gave us this 

 information deserve our thanks, re- 

 gardless of failure. 



Metcalf, '12, was in for a few min- 

 utes, looking sunburned and husky. 

 He tells us that snow-shoeing is fine; 

 but when you break trail for the dog 

 team and keep it up for hours in 

 eighteen inches of loose snow, it gets 

 less exciting; and when you vary it 

 with dropping through up to your 

 waist in icy river water, it does not 



produce the desired effect. "How- 

 ever," he adds, "it is all in the life of 

 the trail; and the timber, mostly 

 Jack Pine and Tamarack, makes up 

 for it in comfort" He has reference 

 to the fact that if you get tired ly- 

 ing in the shade, you can straighten 

 up and sit on top of the stand and 

 inspect density with the hand glass. 

 But then, $4.00 stumpage or "royal- 

 ty" and 10 cents royalty for a tie cut 

 from one of these seedlings makes 

 up for large size, and makes the job 

 interesting. Metcalf is getting to be 

 a nimrod, and told some moose 

 stories; but they will have to wait 

 for a smoker. 



Mosher, '11,' reports from Hough- 

 ton. Michigan. It is ft. progress re- 

 port and, cruiser fashion, put in 

 briefest terms and smallest compass. 

 It simply reads: "Clara Olivia Mosh- 

 er, March 25, 1913." Congratula- 

 tions; but don't leave us in suspense 

 too long after this. 



Coulson, '12, is at Clark's Fork. A 

 note from Sand Point tells of snow- 

 shoe reconnaissance with 5 per cent. 

 and 10 per cent, cover. It is surpris- 

 ing how rapidly we are coming to de- 

 tail reconnaissance in place of the old 

 1 per cent, and less, general mono- 

 plane inspections. This is exceeding- 

 ly gratifying, for it spells the begin- 

 ning of real Forestry. 



'Sackett, '06, is in private work as a 

 member of the Timber Products Co. 

 of New Orleans, L/a. The mere fact 

 that J. 'D. Lacy heads the affair 

 speaks for success. The aim is to 

 utilize the enormous amount of ma- 

 terial now waste connected with 

 Southern lumbering. The chances 

 of a combination of pulp material 

 and resin products is good in the 

 South. 



Kempfer, '06, seems to have quit 



