good for the first attempt. Many of the teachers were 

 enthusiastic, and the success of the plan is largely due 

 to their splendid co-operation. It is felt that this work 

 will do much to overcome the belief that evergreens are 

 hard to grow in these sections. It will make many 

 boys and girls familiar with the actual handling of 

 planting stock and should add a great deal to the in- 

 terest in tree planting in the section as a whole. 



FROM THE MURMANST COAST 



MR. HENRY DENNIS, a graduate of the Minnesota 

 College of Forestry and son of the Mayor of Ash- 

 land, Wis., has many friends am'ong our readers. He 

 worked for the State Forest Service as a patrolman 

 and at the Forest Experiment Station at Cloquet. He 

 is now serving as a Lieutenant in the 339th infantry, 

 fighting the Bolsheviks on the Murmanst coast. The 

 following letter written to his father will be of inter- 

 est both as news of a friend and as first hand informa- 

 tion from the fighting front. 



The Letter 



American Barge, - - River, Russia, Sept. 29, 1918. 

 Dear Father: Opportunities to write have been few 

 and far between since we reached Russia and I am not 

 sure even that this will reach the post. We reached 

 Archangel with an epidemic of influenza aboard, a 

 pretty down hearted lot, to unload supplies on Sept. 

 3, with snow in the air. Archangel, which is head of 



