EDUCATION 



Yale's New Professorship of Lumbering 



R. C. Bryant, professor of lumbering in 

 the Yale Forest School (this is the new pro- 

 fessorship endowed by the lumbermen of 

 the country at the instance of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association) has 

 issued a statement describing with much 

 detail the course in his department. He 

 says : 



The instruction in lumbering proper is 

 conducted by a lecture course for senior 

 students given in New Haven from October 

 1 to March 1, and by practical field work in 

 the South from March to the middle of 

 June. 



INSTRUCTION IN NEW HAVEN 



The lecture course in New Haven is de- 

 signed to give the student a clear idea of 

 the general principles underlying the con- 

 duct of the lumber industry in the United 

 States and a general understanding of 

 economic subjects related to it. This lecture 

 course is given four times a week during 

 the fall and winter terms. The following 

 subjects are among those covered: 



X. Importance of ...e industry in the 

 United States, brief historical review of its 

 development, statistics of the industry, the 

 future of the industry. 



2. Planning a logging operation, methods 

 employed, data required, and methods of 

 obtaining it. 



3. A comparative study of the methods 

 of, and equipment required for, logging 

 operations in the various forest regions. 

 This covers all sorts of tools, vehicles, and 

 machinery used in handling logs from the 

 stump to the railroad or water. 



4. Transportation of timber and other 

 forest products by land and water. Methods, 

 equipment required, value of each system. 



5. Detailed study of logging methods in 

 specific regions. 



6. Log scales, scaling practice, and log 

 grades used in different regions. 



7. Types of manufacturing plants and 

 equipment used. 



8. Methods of manufacture. 



9. Theory and methods of seasoning lum- 

 ber. 



10. Preparation of lumber for market in 

 planing mills. 



11. Methods of sale trade customs. 



12. Lumber grades and grading methods. 



13. Lumber associations objects and 

 work. 



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x4. Foreign and domestic markets. 



15. Timber bonds. 



16. Insurance for sawmill plants and tim- 

 ber. 



17. Lumber tariff. 



18. Cost-keeping methods. 



19. A brief course treating of shingle, 

 lath, clapboard, veneer, cooperage, vehicle 

 stock, boxboard, excelsior, and charcoal 

 manufacture, and the harvesting of tan- 

 barks and turpentine orcharding follows. 



The lecture work is supplemented and 

 illustrated whenever possible with models, 

 drawings, lantern slides, photographs, and 

 other material that will more clearly illus- 

 trate the subject matter. 



Professor Bryant's statement then calls 

 attention to the close relation to training 

 in lumbering of the instruction given by 

 other members of the faculty, describing 

 briefly the courses in land surveys and map 

 making, forest law, wood technology, forest 

 management, forest mensuration, construc- 

 tion engineering, silviculture, entomology, 

 and diseases of trees. 



The field work of the spring term of the 

 senior year, which has since 1906 been 

 spent on some large lumber operation is 

 described at length. The camp and field 

 work are in charge of Professors Chapman 

 and Bryant. The statement continues: 



The instruction given consists very large- 

 ly of field work, supplemented by the few 

 lectures necessary to properly explain the 

 work in hand. The instruction covers the 

 following points: 



LOGGING METHODS 



A detailed study of all phases of the log- 

 ging operation of the company is made. 

 This includes: 



1. The methods of planning the logging 

 operation. 



2. The organization of the woods, labor 

 and wages paid. 



3. Railroad location and construction. 

 Practice is given in laying out logging rail- 

 roads and spurs on lands where the com- 

 pany will soon operate. The method and 

 cost of railroad construction are studied 

 first hand with the logging company's crew. 



4. Felling methods and tools Saw filing 

 and care of tools. Daily output per crew 

 and cost. 



5. Skidding and hauling methods where 

 more than one system is used a compara- 

 tive study of the efficiency of each is made 



