AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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FORESTRY AT BATES COLLEGE 



TTNDER the will of Benjamin C. Jordan, of Alfred, 

 ^ Maine, Bates College, of Lewiston, Maine, received 

 a legacy for the development of a Department of For- 

 estry. There were conditions under the will, as there 

 were various legatees, including daughters of Mr. Jor- 

 dan, and there were numerous obligations to be met be- 

 fore any part of the legacy would be available. The 

 various outstanding obligations have now been met. A 

 daughter of Mr. Jordan, under the terms of his will, was 

 to be the recipient of all the income of the estate that 

 might accrue when all debts had been paid. She is a 

 graduate of Bates and in loyalty to her alma mater has 

 relinquished a share of her income in order that her 

 father's wishes might be carried out as early as could 

 be found practicable. 



Mr. Jordan had been for many years a trustee of Bates 

 and one of his brothers is the head of the Department 

 of Chemistry at the college. The college will ultimately 

 have large resources for its forestry work, but for a few 

 years the amount available will be only moderate. It 

 does, however, permit the college to employ a thoroughly 

 prepared man to take charge of the department. It also 

 affords the requisite laboratory facilities. The amount 

 available for this department is likely to increase from 

 year to year. The estate of Mr. Jordan included some 

 14,000 acres of good timber land, situated in different 

 counties in Maine. 



President George C. Chase writes American Forestry 

 that Bates is now endeavoring properly to correlate her 

 educational work in forestry with other work in such a 

 way as to give a good knowledge of forestry to students 

 interested in this subject and, at the same time, to assure 

 to them a reasonable degree of culture and breadth of 

 knowledge. 



CHANGES AT THE GEORGIA STATE 

 FOREST SCHOOL 



OINCE it was necessary to divide the work left by the 

 *^ men who had been called under the draft at the 

 State Forest School of the University of Georgia, af 

 Athens, the Forest School has been combined with the 

 division of plant pathology. Most of the efforts at the 

 school during the period of the war will be directed to- 

 ward a control of plant diseases, supplemented, of course, 

 by a certain amount of work in forestry. Two projects 

 have been approved, one of which provides for a field 

 agent in forestry and plant pathology, and the other for 

 a specialist in plant pathology. Under the first, Mr. 

 James Godkin, who had his undergraduate work at Con- 

 necticut and his graduate work at the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College, has been appointed. An arrangement has 

 been made with Dr. Humphrey, of the Office of Cereals, 

 for the stationing of six specialists within the State, 

 whose sole work will be the control of cereal diseases, 

 and there will be full and cordial co-operation between 

 the State and the university in the conduct of this work. 

 It is now confidently expected that the coming year will 

 see at least a dozen men specializing in plant pathology 

 at work within the State, the result of whose labors will 

 be of great benefit and value. 



TREE'S LONG JOURNEY ON TRUCK 



TN tree transplanting the 

 -*- motor truck has made 

 itself known as a factor 

 of real importance. Ex- 

 perience has demonstrated 

 that by using trucks in 

 this work the undertak- 

 ing is greatly simplified 

 and the results enhanced. 

 In the accompanying illus- 

 tration is shown one stage 

 of a recent tree moving 

 operation which shows 

 how a truck may be used 

 to good advantage. The 

 tree was an excellent spe- 



cimen of oak, forty feet in height and 13 inches in 

 diameter. The trip made by this oak was trom its native 

 nursery, near Philadelphia, to the estate of Eugene Du 

 Pont, at Greenville, Delaware, a distance of 42^ miles. 

 The tree was lifted from the ground with its roots en- 

 cased in a ball of earth weighing approximately 8,500 

 pounds. The weight of tree and rigging was estimated 

 at 2,000 pounds, making a total weight of 10,500 pounds. 

 The tree was loaded and unloaded without injury and 

 the trip was made without mishap of any kind. The 

 success of the undertaking has convinced those concerned 

 that the use of the motor truck in tree removal opens up 

 new possibilities for transplanting. 



A N Omaha chemist is experimenting with the roots 

 -^*- and stems of manzanita, a common shrub which 

 forms a part of the chaparral on the Pacific Coast, as a 

 source of dye. A carload of the wood has recently been 

 shipped from Northern California for this purpose. 



'HE annual value of the farm woodlot products of the 

 .United States is $195,000,000. 



