Forest 

 Mensu- 

 ration 



HIS work consisted of daily lectures and discussions 

 of different phases of the work and then the practi- 

 cal carrying out of the same phases under actual 

 field conditions. The working field for these 

 studies was, in most respects ideal, as we were 

 adjacent to actual logging operations and could 

 follow the sawyer, estimating, then measuring individual trees 

 immediately after they were cut. For our cruising work, however, 

 we had to go to Camp No. 8, where there was plenty of virgin timber. 

 Professor Baker was with us for the last three weeks of the term. 

 Altho his work was supplemented hy that of Professor Pettit's and 

 Mr. Kellogg's, yet we were never allowed to drift for more than a day 

 from the subject above. 



The facts of the course as the fellows saw and recorded them in 

 the Camp Diary. 



Friday, July 19th. Professor Baker started his work with a 

 lecture on the significances of Forest Mensuration and the derivation 

 of log rules. The remainder of the morning was spent in constructing 

 a diagrammatic log rule of our own for given diameters and lengths 

 of logs as assigned. 



After dinner, another lecture and the remainder of the day spent 

 in plotting values for different log rules for comparison. 



Swimming was postponed as it was cold. Camp fire broke up 

 early as most of us thought it would be a good plan to look over the 



nfty pages which had been 

 assigned from Graves text. 



Saturday, July 20th. 

 After an hour s lecture and a 

 quizz, we sallied forth equip- 

 ped with jaw boards, scale 

 sticks, calipers and tapes to 

 scale and compute log volumes 

 by different methods. 



As customary, Saturday 

 afternoon off. Kittredge and 

 Preston hit the trail for Van- 

 derbilt while the rest of us 

 drove to Thumb lake for a 

 dip. After the dip, every- 

 body started on an expedition 

 for a farm bell located by 

 Chief Scout Roop. 



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