The Last "Forty" Cleaned. 



Then when the last "forty" cleaned, backs straightened 

 and the eye took a new light. There was the trip to town and 

 the winter's check, intact, with nothing to substract but the 

 "Peerless" and "Spearhead" of the wanagan. 



Three days in town. That was all. No good lumberjack 

 ever required more. His stake went to the last cent. He 

 bought and bought lavishly. Drunk, dead drunk, all that time. 

 Then the awakening. Not a complaint, though. There was 

 never a lumberjack had a morning after. He knew it was 

 coming, had known it all the winter he was slaving. He had 

 had his fling. Then it was the drive and a month or so on the 

 boom, another stake, another drunk, a month or so in town, 

 then back to the woods and the cycle repeated itself. Those 

 were the lumberjacks in the days that have gone. 



His place has been taken by the foreigner, the swamper, 

 the sawyer, and machinery. The hook men have been sup- 

 planted by the steam jammer. The ice roads by the iron rail. 

 The log shanties by the sawed lumber ones. The romance is 

 gone and once gone, the lumberjack pined and has disap- 

 peared. 



Dr. C. D .Marsh, of the federal bureau of plant industry, is 

 dclh'crini) a series of illustrated lectures to stockmen in the West 

 on the subject of plants poisonous to stock. 



The Biltinore forest school, established in 18^8 and therefore 

 the oldest forest school in America, has been discontinued. Dr. 

 C. .}. Schenck, its director, has returned to his home in Ger- 

 man \. 



The forest service is compiling a new volume table for cal- 

 culating the board contents of standing ll'estern yellow pine trees 

 in the Southwest. It is based on actual measurements of 6,000 

 trees. 



In trying to find uses for blight-killed chestnut, it has been 

 found that it cannot be utilized for crating stone; quarry owners 

 say that chestnut wood leaves an indelible stain on the marble 

 or granite. 



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