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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



School of Forestry 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 



Four Year Course, with oppor- 

 tunity to specialize in General 

 Forestry, Logging Engineer- 

 ing and Forest Grazing. 



Forest Ranger Course, of high 

 school grade, covering two 

 years of five months each. 



Special Short Course, covering 

 twelve weeks designed for 

 those who cannot take the time 

 for the fuller courses. 



No tuition is charged for any 

 of the above courses, and other- 

 wise expenses are the lowest. 



Correspondence Course. A 



course in Lumber and Its 

 Uses is given by correspon- 

 dence for which a nominal 

 charge is made. 



Fr Further Particulars Address 



Dean, School of Forestry 



University of Idaho 



Moscow, Idaho 



ANIMAL INGENUITY OF 

 TODAY 



By C. A. EALAND, M.A. The author's 

 love of nature is shown on every page. 

 He describes the skill, clever devices, 

 and strategems of bird*, reptiles, in- 

 sects, and other forms of animal life- 

 how they order their lives, and protect 

 themselves. The world of nature is a 

 real wonderland, and Mr. Ealand the 

 best sort of a guide through it. Pro 

 fusely illustrated $2.25 



FORESTRY TRAINING 



In the Heart of the Rockies 



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The Colorado School of Forestry 



A Department of Colorado 



College 

 Colorado Springs, Colorado 



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Four and five-year undergraduate courses 

 and a two-year graduate course in techni- 

 cal forestry, leading to the degrees of 

 Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Mas- 

 ter of Forestry. 



Forestry teaching in spring and fall at 

 Manitou Forest (a 7,000-acre forest belong* 

 ing to the School) and the winter term at 

 Colorado Springs. 



Write for announcement giving full in- 

 formation. 



PAPER FROM SOUTHERN PINE AND 

 RED GUM 



'I'HE possibility of using southern pine 

 ^ and red gum for the production of high 

 grade book and magazine paper hat been 

 demonstrated in recent tests at the United 

 States Forest Products Laboratory, Madi- 

 son, Wisconsin. The experiments indicate 

 that one cord of loblolly pine and one of 

 red gum are together capable of yielding 

 one ton of paper, at a cost which would 

 allow a good profit under prevailing con- 

 ditions. The utilization of southern pine 

 for this purpose would also spread the 

 burden of the pulpwood supply over con- 

 siderable territory which has a large an- 

 nual growth of timber. Book paper re- 

 quires for its manufacture two kinds of 

 wood, a long-fibered wood, such as spruce, 

 to impart strength, and some short-fibered 

 hardwood to give the formation, finish, and 

 other printing qualities. The southern 

 pines are long-fibered woods, excellently 

 suited for the manufacture of wrapping 

 paper and fiber board, but their pitch con- 

 tent and the difficulty of bleaching them 

 have heretofore been obstacles in the way 

 of their use for white paper. These ob- 

 stacles, it has been shown, can be over- 

 come in a large measure by proper cooking 

 conditions and improved bleaching 

 methods. Red gum is typical of many 

 southern hardwoods that might be used 

 with the pines for the manufacture of the 

 better grades of printing paper. 



PENNSYLVANIA'S FIRE TOWERS 

 Major R. Y. Stuart, Deputy Commissioner 

 of Forestry, has announced that twenty-five 

 sites have been definitely fixed for forest fire 

 observation towers that will be erected by 

 the Department of Forestry this summer. 

 Orders for fifty towers have been placed 

 with the manufacturers. The remaining lo- 

 cations will be selected by George H. Wirt, 

 Chief Forest Fire Warden, within the next 

 few weeks. 



The Department of Forestry is planning 

 to build 168 miles of new roads and 278 miles 

 of trails in State Forests this year. These 

 roads and trails will enable foresters to reach 

 fires more quickly. 



LASHES OF WOODCHUCK SKINS 



''VHE following interesting letter from Dr. 

 Robert T. Morris, of New York, to Dr. 

 R. W. Shufeldt, contributing editor to 

 '\MEiac.\N Forestry, is reproduced in full: 

 "In your interesting article on the sub- 

 ject of woodchucks and porcupines in the 

 current number of American Forestry, I 

 note the statement that you have not known 

 of woodchuck skins being collected for the 

 purpose of making whip lashes. When I 

 was a boy all of the farmers in the vicinity 

 of our family farm in Newtown, Connecti- 

 cut, used woodchuck skins in this way. The 

 skins were put in a thick mixture of wood 

 ashes and water until the hair could be 

 brushed off. They were then treated in 



two different ways by different farmers. 

 Some of them rubbed alum into the skin 

 and worked it between the hands every day 

 until it was soft and pliant. Others put it 

 in a thick mixture of dried sumac leaves 

 and water. 



"A good deal of skill was used in going 

 around this skin with a knife in such a 

 way as to cut it into a long strip. The strip 

 cut in many circles in this way was 

 straightened out by fastening one end of it 

 to a limb of a tree and tying a stone to 

 the other end, leaving it there for several 

 days. The leather meantime being oiled 

 occasionally. 



"The strips of woodchuck skin cured in 

 this way were used for the long whip lashes 

 for driving oxen, for flail strings, for har- 

 ness lacings, and other leather string pur- 

 poses. Elskins were sometimes put in along 

 with the woodchuck skins in the original 

 preparation and were then used for flail 

 strings and for string lashings of various 

 sorts." 



REDWOOD GROVE PRESERVED AS| 



MEMORIAL 

 A BEAUTIFUL grove of redwood (Se- 

 quoia sempervirens) has been dedicated 

 as a memorial to Colonel Raynal C. Boiling, 

 of the United States Air Service, first 

 .'American officer of high rank to give his 

 life in the World War. Dr. J. C. Phillips, 

 of Wenham, Massachusetits, brother-in-law 

 of Colonel Boiling, has established the 

 Boiling Memorial Redwood Grove on the 

 South Fork of the Eel River in Hunnboldt 

 County, California. 



The grove has been purchased by Dr. 

 Phillips and a deed will be given to the 

 Save the Redwoods League. It will be 

 held by the League until it is made public 

 property and assured of being preserved 

 for the generations to come. 



A memorial tablet to Colonel Boiling 

 will be placed near the highway at the 

 entrance ito the grove. 



BALSA WOOD LIGHTER THAN CORK 



1I)\LSA wood, growing notably in Costa 

 Rica and Ecuador, is the lightest wood 

 known, weighing only 7.3 pounds to the 

 cubic foot. Cork weighs 13.7 pounds. 

 Growing more rapidly than almost any 

 other known tree, it is said that within 

 four years a balsa tree will attain the 

 height of 30 feet, with a diameter of ten 

 inches. It is as durable as cedar. The 

 wood is white, extremely straight grained 

 and easy to work. It is soft when green, 

 but seems to harden later. It is used ex- 

 tensively for making life rafts and life 

 preservers, and it is thought that it will 

 eventually constitute a valuable source of 

 pulpwood. A brown-colored cotton-wool, 

 commonly used for stuffing pillows and I 

 mattresses, is also produced. It is be- 

 lieved that the tree would flourish in Flori- 

 da, and because of its rapid growth would 

 spread rapidly over the southern part of 

 the State. 



