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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



work hard, ten hours a day and 

 they are among the huskiest 

 men in the A. E. F. They 

 are as hard as nails and are 

 always ready for any emerg- 

 ency. 



On account of the hard work 

 these men are doing, they have 

 been granted an increase in ra- 

 tions of twenty-five per cent 

 over that allowed the men in the 

 other units "over here." They 

 need it, these men of the forests, 

 for they are fighting a battle 

 every day ; a battle of produc- 

 the mill tion and the way the reports are 



This is the American mill at the foot of the mountain, down which the logs come at a 72-degree grade for coming ill from every Camp and 

 milling Its capacity is 10,000 feet, but it does much better than this. . 



operation, indicates that the bor- 

 patched to France and in a comparatively short time, they estry Regiments are out to bury the Kaiser beneath 

 started to send lumber where it was most needed. A a mountain of sawdust, "Somewhere in France." 

 steady stream of lumbermen and 

 sawmill men of America came 

 "over" and soon lost themselves 

 in the forests of France. They 

 are working in every section of 

 the country; from east to west, 

 and from north to south. 



Trench timbers, stakes for 

 barbed wire entanglements and 

 fire wood for the supply of the 

 army "over here" are some of the 

 things they are getting out. In 

 spite of increased production, 

 come increased orders and it is a 

 race, at breakneck speed, with 

 men working in shifts by day 

 and night to meet the demands 

 of the growing army of De- 

 mocracy. 



The men of the Forestry regi- 

 ments are a mighty big factor in 

 the war. They are doing their 

 bit, and it is a big bit. They 



ENOUGH TO MAKE THE KAISER FEEL "LOGGY" 



These are all ready for business, and the flow of lumber from the American mills in France is not going 

 to stop until the "I" is taken out of "Kaiser." 



DONATIONS TO THE WELFARE FUND FOR LUMBERMEN AND 



FORESTERS IN WAR SERVICE 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will publish each month the list of those making donations to this fund. Many of the donations 

 from members of the American Forestry Association so far received were made without solicitation and were inspired by 

 reading in the magazine that a relief and comfort fund for men of the forest regiments was being collected. Many substan- 

 tial contributions are being received from the Forest Service and from lumber companies and lumbermen following requests sent 

 to them by the Secretary of the Welfare Fund for Lumbermen and Foresters in War Service, by the lumber organizations of 

 which they are members, and by the committees of lumbermen which had charge in various sections of the United States of 

 securing enlistments for the forest regiments. 



Contributions to the Welfare Fund to October 1, 1918, are as follows: 



Previously acknowledged $20,428.06 



Dock, Miss Mira L, Fayetteville, Pennsylvania 5.00 



Kenneth, O. Ward, Candor, New York 10.00 



Merkel, Hermann W., New York City, New 



York 5.00 



Reeve, C. Mc, Minnetonka Beach, Minnesota.. 10.00 



Rosemary Pine Lumber Mills, South Mansfield, 



Louisiana 50.00 



Wesbon, Gertrude S 5.00 



Total $20,513.06 



