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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



With reference to en- 



sary supplies to come along. But that isn't the present 

 spirit of these lads. Production is what they are work- 

 ing for and production to them means nothing unless 

 presented in the concrete form of ties, lumber, road 

 plank, trench props, cord-wood, fagots, piling, poles, or 

 wire entanglement stakes, 

 tanglement stakes, one 

 recalls with serious amuse- 

 ment the "Rush" order 

 that came over the wire 

 from "Up Front" one 

 day for an unlimited num- 

 ber of entanglement stakes. 

 They were needed in a 

 hurry! Our boys started 

 in to thrash the Kaiser 

 with entanglement stakes. 

 They tackled the job with 

 mighty little equipment ; 

 wagons, horses and motor 

 vehicles were lacking ; but 

 no matter, a standing order 

 was issued that no man 

 should return to "Mess" 

 from the woods without 

 all the entanglement stakes 

 he could pack on his back. So in less time than it takes 

 to say it, stakes were pouring out of the woods on the 

 backs of men in an endless ant-like stream ; stakes were 

 moving forward from every quarter. That the job had 

 been well done in short order is told by the wire that 

 came back, "Stop sending stakes, can't use any more." 



Major 



who has a group of operations made up 



A FRENCH "DINKEY" IS ENLISTED 



Always generous in their assistance, the French, in a time of need, 

 lend the American boys an engine to bring in a big load of logs. 



of detachments from the ioth and 20th Regiments and 

 the 503rd and 507th Service Battalions, received a dis- 

 patch at another time to furnish poles, as many as he 

 could as soon as possible. This again was before the 

 rest of the American Expeditionary Forces knew what 



we really could do. After 

 about two days of a deluge 

 of poles, just when the Ma- 

 jor had things organized in 

 his own inimitable way to 

 win the war with poles, a 

 dispatch flashed in, "Flood- 

 ed with poles, cancel fur- 

 ther shipments." 



No end of such tales can 

 be told and one leads to an- 

 other. Along about the 

 same time, the wire brought 

 in an order for 10,000 ties 

 with which to construct a 

 railroad spur at a hospital 

 that was being put up in a 

 rush. In six days those 

 ties were made without a 

 broad ax in the outfit, ordi- 

 nary single and double bitted chopping axes did the 

 business. 



It is a paradox of pioneering in an old and densely 

 settled region, using the equipment our ships are able 

 to bring us across three thousand miles of sea, and accept- 

 ing in the meantime the generous assistance of the French. 



Underwood and Underwood New Zealand Official Photograph 



UTILIZATION IS THE WATCHWORD OF THE LUMBER AND FORESTRY ARMY 



And here we see timber which has been salved from German dugouts and cut up in the saw-mills of the New Zealand Tunneling Company 



to be used in the construction of dug-outs for our troops. 



