the spirit of change and a spirit of indi- 

 vidualism and home government or 

 States Rights. It will be a pity to throw 

 away the efforts of the past, but then, 

 all people get very much what they want 

 and deserve. 



Metcalf ('12) came in for a very brief 

 hour and showed photos of forests in 

 Northern Ontario, of alleged damage 

 by fire, etc. "Market, why, market for 

 grubs. Aspen a premium and a Jack 

 Pine a treasure. Future? Well there is 

 some, for time and the granite will stay 

 always." Has to come over just to see 

 what a real tree looks like. Forest util- 

 ization has struck the Old World form 

 and degree, and the future is concerned 

 not in how to get it out, but how to 

 raise a stick. (Sackett please take a 

 note on this, for it involves a country 

 as large as the entire South). 



Moody ('06) sounds the bugle from 

 the hill "far above Cayuga's Waters." 

 He is into everything from woodlot ad- 

 vice to Professorship lectures at Cor- 

 nell. He believes in advertising, in big 

 shows at Chicago and other suburbs, and 

 especially in the picture of the crew 

 with calipers in one hand and either 

 the regatta oar or else a "pretzel" in the 

 other. 



Morrill ('12) is in the New England 

 States in private work, doing all the reg- 

 ular kinds of forestry work as they 

 come to a forester in Germany. Plant- 

 ing, thinning, improvement-cutting, sur- 

 veying and mapping, developing a plan 

 and a system of book keeping, utiliza- 

 tion of logs and cordwood ; in short he 

 is in real forestry work and enjoys it. 



E. H. Pound, who has been scouting 

 the Amazon and other creeks, was here 

 for a day and told of the great possi- 

 bilities of tropical agriculture and for- 

 estry. His next hang-out is to be Sum- 

 atra with a plantation of thousands of 

 acres and a laboratory for exact, sci- 

 entific investigation by botanists and 

 chemists to improve the methods of util- 

 ization of the product, and to raise the 

 biggest Yr. He is fishing for Kelt 

 Baker, and the birdy has it that Baker 



is biting and we may lose one of our 

 most experienced logging engineers, for 

 let it be remembered that Baker has 

 "been there" and can crowd more Que- 

 bec choppers and horses into a 20 x 30 

 log shanty than any man on the St. 

 Maurice or the St. Michael de tous Les 

 Saintes. His last came from Grand 

 Mere, and it is no wonder. 



Larsen ('10) never has much to say. 

 His latest came from Badger, Califor- 

 nia. He has been at the Converse Ex- 

 periment Station, roamed the Stanislaus, 

 and later the Sequoia. He likes the 

 experimental and investigation side of 

 the work, and believes strongly in the 

 personal equation. 



Janes (W) rarely speaks up, but about 

 Christmas a good letter told of the many 

 things he has been into; the explora- 

 tion of the ecology of a number of so- 

 called "lakes" or "sunken lands" in Ar- 

 kansas ; the study of the growth of a 

 number of species ; and the working out 

 of diagrams, etc., for use in "fire-look- 

 outs." The work on the "Sunken Lands" 

 is especially interesting, since it in- 

 volved the use of plant ecology in de- 

 termining property rights in large areas 

 of especially valuable lands, some of 

 them oil lands involving millions of 

 dollars. In keeping with his quiet tem- 

 perament (for Janes never was given 

 to bill-poster methods) he has worked 

 out these interesting puzzles to the point 

 where his conclusions will stand in court 

 trial. The Department of Justice has 

 learned to know Janes better than the 

 Department of Agriculture, and the fol- 

 lowing line, taken from a letter of the 

 Special Assistant Attorney General, in- 

 dicates what they think of his services. 

 "I desire to thank you (the Secretary 

 of Agriculture) for detailing Mr. Janes 

 to this work, and to say that in my opin- 

 ion, the success attending the Govern- 

 ment's suit will depend in large part upon 

 the intelligent and painstaking prepara- 

 tion which Mr. Janes gave to the first of 

 these cases. I have been greatly im- 

 pressed with his work, etc." 



Holroyd ('05) sticks with the Muncie 



