tes, Province of Quebec, Canada, and 

 how he can stand so much religion in 

 his stationery is quite a puzzle to the 

 Club. He has been on the usual stunt 

 in the "well-wooded" Canada, i. e., hunt- 

 ing for some land that is "more thor- 

 oughly cut over," which means that most 

 of them belong here, and a stick of 

 timber is a gem (?). He also made 

 growth studies, (Don't be too finicky, 

 Baker, a half-century more on the ro- 

 tation will hardly be noticed.) He is 

 also hobnobbing with a real live count, 

 a Mr. Alphone de Zellen, and other dig- 

 nitaries from Eberswalde and other 

 well known places. Baker says the 

 training in Eberswalde was very help- 

 ful to the gentleman, but that they had 

 to turn him to nursery work for fear 

 of losing him. Baker is a good corres- 

 pondent and at least mentions the fact 

 that he hears from a few of the other 

 boys. 



Cronk, '12, is out at Port Haney, Brit- 

 ish Columbia, doing a little of ever> - 

 thing. He approves of the questions sent 

 out, is still much interested in school ; 

 promises to come for a Conference; 

 does not think that he has had too much 

 of the brush for experience, in spite of 

 the fact that he has had more variety 

 of work than perhaps any man out. "Not 

 much money in it," he says, "but I can- 

 not afford to be without it." At the 

 same time he believes in getting out and 

 getting acquainted, and learning things 

 besides your little job. Cronk is on the 

 right track, and the Club wants to see 

 him succeed and make things hum in 

 private work that counts. 



Peck, '05, in Albuquerque, is getting 

 the brevity habit, which simply means 

 that his administration work takes 

 enough time without writing outside 



correspondence. But he filled out the 

 questions faithfully, and is alive to the 

 progress of Michigan. 



Starker, '12, says he is thin and tough 

 and in fine spirits; enjoys the work on 

 the Whitman. He has had a hand in a 

 lot of good timber sales, looked after 

 scaling and brush disposal, and thinks 

 it is great stuff. "Had a big windfall 

 in a cutting, which," he says, "proves 

 that even Yellow Pine in selection sys- 

 tem needs care on the point of wind- 

 storm, and can hardly stand a 75 per 

 cent, removal." Dead right, Starker, 

 the safest thing, to start with, is to 

 leave a decent stand that will hold on. 

 Nellis, '11, rips them up the back. He 

 sailed in on poor Editor Mills and told 

 him the News from The Field was evi- 

 dently fiction, amply mixed with error 

 and padded with hot air. He proceed- 

 ed to tell him that as far as he was con- 

 cerned there is no need keeping on with 

 the old story of house-to-house peddling 

 of information ; that he has quit the Cen- 

 sus enumeration of broom handle works, 

 and soap factories using shavings, and 

 McG. packing boxes; that he is not go- 

 ing to get nearer the "brush" as previ- 

 ously reported, but that he is now in the 

 woods and doing work in the study of 

 utilization of blight-killed Chestnut, and 

 that this work offers the best of chances 

 for intensive work in Utilization, and 

 that more valuable statements of re- 

 sults of these studies have gone out. Al- 

 so, that the office of Wood Utilization 

 is no more, but that it has shed its skin, 

 and is now the office of Industrial In- 

 vestigation. 



This entire confession is made by the 

 editors and their helpers in a spirit of 

 true meekness and apology, and in the 



