of national efficiency, a new period of 

 politics. We are just getting an idea of 

 what it would be like to do national 

 work on a national benefit basis, as 

 against the "pork-barrel" system. 



Against the day when politics will be 

 clean, when our resources will be used 

 without waste, when our water power 

 cannot be monopolized and our forests 

 will not burn, we must wait and work." 



OTHER TALKS 



By holding meetings once every two 

 weeks the Club is able to arrange for 

 short talks on many and varied subjects. 

 On November 19th, Griffin gave a talk 

 on "Volume and Yield Tables." He 

 worked last summer with E. H. Froth- 

 ingham '06, of the Forest Service, get- 

 ting figures for a volume table of bass- 

 wood in northern Wisconsin and Michi- 

 gan, and for a yield table of yellow birch 

 in the Northeastern states. 



He showed sample tables and how 

 they were used, and told of the methods 

 used in getting the data. First well 

 shaped trees were selected to measure. 

 When they had a selected tree lying on 

 the ground, and before any of the logs 

 were jerked out by the skidder, they used 

 calipers, tape and the measuring stick 

 to find the taper of the tree. Tops and 

 the branches were measured for cord- 

 wood. For yield tables all of the trees 

 on quarter-acre plots were measured, and 

 about six trees of average size chopped 

 down and measured as a basis for the 

 stand as a whole. 



He used lantern slides showing the 

 character of the country and some of the 

 interesting points found on the job. 



On December 17th, Plumb talked on 

 "Reforestation on the Siuslaw." He told 

 of the different seeding methods, the 

 costs and results, and also of the plant- 

 ing in the different years. The area was 

 in the northern part of the Siuslaw 

 and known as the Yaquina burn. The 

 first work of reforestation, done in the 

 spring of 1910, was a seeding job done 

 in the ordinary way, one man with a 



mattock scraping off the soil from a 

 twelve inch square, dropping in a few 

 seeds and covering them. Thecost of 

 this averaged $1.92 an acre, one man 

 planting 2.3 acres a day, and 1-4 pound 

 of seed being used to the acre. Making 

 the spots bigger, and using 1-3 pound 

 of seed per acre, the cost was $2.54 an 

 acre, and one man could average 1.8 

 acres a day. This was Douglas fir. 

 Some Sitka spruce was put in, costing 

 $3.40 per acre, and the total cost of 

 planting 1350 acres was about $3,000. In 

 the winter of 1910-1911 Norway and 

 Sitka spruce were seeded in by broad- 

 casting on the snow, the cost averaging 

 $1.50 an acre, and about 2 pounds of 

 seed being used per acre. At this time 

 red oak shagbark hickory and black wal- 

 nut were seeded by dibbling in, the work 

 costing $3.70 per acre. In the fall of 

 1912 a number of acres were seeded by 

 the "seed spot" method with 6x6 spac- 

 ing, using about .95 pounds of seed per 

 acre, one man planting about .98 of an 

 acre a day, and the cost being about 

 $5.50 an acre. The failure of a large 

 part of the seeding was due to dry sea- 

 sons, rodents, and poor seed. As to the 

 planting, the figures he gave ranged from 

 $7.32 an acre for Dougles fir, using the 

 slit method with a spade, to $17 an acre 

 for western red cedar and Norway 

 spruce. Most of the planting was suc- 

 cessful, and from 60% to 90% of the 

 trees are still living. 



He showed a number of pictures of 

 different nurseries whence the stock 

 for the work came. 



