FORESTRY EXHIBIT. 



During the May Festival wefek over 

 10,000 people visited the exhibit that 

 was originated and managed by the 

 Engineering and the Forestry stu- 

 dents. Early in the winter, the En- 

 gineers conceived the idea of throw- 

 ing open all their diepartments to the 

 visitors at May Festival time; they 

 wanted the general public to see what 

 they were doing and how it was done. 

 Through the kindly feeling the Engi- 

 neers have for the Foresters we were 

 invited to participate in the 'big ex- 

 hibit. Birch was appointed chairman 

 of a committee to take charge of the 

 Forestry part of the affair, and he in 

 turn divided the work so that each 

 man of his committee had a particu- 

 lar line to follow. Lewis had charge 

 of the Forest Products exhibit; Horn- 

 by, of Wood Technology; Schlapp, of 

 Silviculture; and Beattie, of Logging 

 and Mensuration. 'McCuteheon and 

 Conover attended to maps, charts and 

 pictures. Four room's in the New En- 

 gineering building were assigned to us 

 for our display. 



(Hornby and his (helpers kept the 

 testing machines 'busy 'bending, crush- 

 ing and shearing pieces of wood, and 

 explaining the operations to the 

 groups of people that surrounded th'e 

 machines from the moment Hhe Ex- 

 hibit opened until its close. 



Lewis and his men filled one room 

 with a great collection of forest prod- 

 ucts, from cascara 'bark to a piano. 

 There were all stages in the develop- 

 ment of wood to paper; the tunpen- 

 tine stump with its cup of resin, to the 

 finished products; collections of hand- 

 les, and round and square spindles; 

 paving Mocks; all the parts of a pi- 

 ano and the finished instrument. They 

 had wood sections under the /micro- 

 scope and explanations to offer every- 

 where. 



Schlapp and Beattie with their 

 helpers gathered an eno-rmoud col- 

 lection of cones, plants and instru- 

 ments; and then iput them up in an 

 orderly way. Instruments used dn 



field work, those used in office work, 

 and those used in the logging camp 

 or saw mill were shown separately. 



Valiton prepared a collection of 

 grasses and other forage plants. 

 Cones and seeds of Michigan conifers, 

 and specimens from the pines of the 

 Southern States, and of California 

 trees, were on exhibit. Schlapp work- 

 ed up a regulated forest of Douglas 

 Fir, four age classes, and had the 

 whole forest where it could (be seen 

 at a glance. The area of his forest 

 was about 2,000 square inches. The 

 youngest age class was six weeks and 

 the oldest four years. Then there 

 were exhibits of Redwood, seed, cones), 

 trees, bark and wood; of big discs, and 

 little trees of hardwood; pines that 

 were grown at the Forestry Farm so 

 tall that the butt log had to be cut 

 off before it could 'be placed upright 

 in the room. 



Conover and McCuteheon put on 

 the finish 'by embellishing with 

 pictures maps and charts, and 

 then everywhere spread neatly print- 

 ed signs explaining, directing, and 

 calling attention to the various phases 

 of the exhibits. 



Every dislplay had its "spieler" who 

 explained the fine points and answer- 

 ed the questions of the curious; and 

 the boys did not find it difficult to an- 

 swer or explain even to people who 

 knew something about the subject. 



Lovejoy, Birch and Conover decid- 

 ed that the people would need a rest- 

 room, so they fixed up one, and then 

 put in a stereoiptican, and showed pic- 

 tures and talked forestry to theim 

 while they "rested." 



Incidentally the Engineers had 

 about ten times aS much exhibit as 

 the Foresters, 'but this little note is 

 simply to tell about the latter. On 

 the whole the affair was an enormous 

 success, where success means inform- 

 ing the public as to what we have 

 and what we do. 



O. !L. S. 



