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vately owned lands is steadily increasing, with the awak- 

 ening interest of land owners in their woods as a source 

 of possible permanent income instead of a tax-ridden in- 

 cumbrance. Paper and pulp companies show the great- 

 est interest in forestry of any class of woodland owners, 

 and are now employing fourteen Yale graduates. Others 

 are working for manufacturing concerns dependent on 

 wood supplies for their raw materials, including some 

 owners of forest estates. A few fortunate ones are 

 themselves forest owners and are putting into practice 

 the principles learned at the School. In all, forty-three 

 foresters are so employed. Six graduates are now in 

 the tropics, Brazil, Dutch East Indies, and elsewhere, in 

 private employ. 



Yale has extended her influence widely. At present 

 the Canadian Forest Service employs five of its gradu- 

 ates ; South Africa, three ; China, two ; India, two, and 

 New Zealand, one. The work in China is of special in- 

 terest and the field enormous. Four Chinese have gradu- 

 ated from the School, to return to take up this work, 

 and four more are now in attendance. Those in China 

 report a great awakening of interest in forestry and many 

 active measures under way for its establishment. 



Fifty-five alumni of the School are engaged in lum- 

 bering and fourteen others are connected with various 

 wood-using industries, from airplanes to tanning ex- 

 tracts. Another small group of ten men is working in 

 connection with parks and city forestry. All told, 

 seventy-nine men are connected with these industries 

 allied to forestry. 



The remaining men who have taken up other pursuits 

 have apparently found that forestry gives a broad basis 

 for success in many lines, for there are few of these ex- 

 students who are not acquitting themselves creditably in 

 their chosen lines. A group of sixty-three is engaged 

 in dealing with the soil and its products, of which agri- 

 culture and horticulture claim fifty-five and geology 

 eleven. Public service other than forestry claims twelve 

 men. Commercial pursuits have absorbed seventy, of 

 whom twenty-seven are in mercantile lines, thirteen in 

 manufacturing, ten in finance, seven in insurance, five 

 in real estate, and eight in miscellaneous trades. The 

 professions include thirty-two, the largest group, twelve, 

 being engaged in teaching, and the next, six, in engi- 

 neering. Science claims three, law and medicine two 

 each, and miscellaneous professions seven. 



To summarize, sixty-one per cent of the alumni of the 

 Yale Forest School are now engaged in forestry, or 

 closely allied work. Thirty per cent are in direct public 

 service, eight per cent each in forest education and pri- 

 vate forestry, and fifteen per cent in forest or wood 

 utilization and park or city forestry. These men are 

 scattered to the four corners of the earth where they are 

 doing their share to put into practice the principles and 

 the ideals which they were taught at Yale. 



THE LIBERTY TREE 



SOIL from every State in the Union, from each of the 

 Allied Countries and from other foreign places was 

 placed about the roots of a maple tree planted by the 

 Daughters of the American Revolution at Arkadelphia, 

 Arkansas. The tree is a memorial to the soldiers and 

 sailors of that city who answered their country's call. 

 It has been nominated for a place in the Hall of 

 Fame by Mrs. Thomas Sloan, historian of the Arka- 

 delphia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo- 

 lution, and it is pictured on the contents page of this 

 magazine. 



With an impressive ceremony soil from Izabella, at 

 Santo Domingo, West India, the oldest settlement in the 

 New World, as well as soil from the famous Sakakawea 

 Statue on the Capitol Grounds of Bismark, North 

 Dakota, which honors the "Bird Woman" who directed 

 the Lewis and Clark Expedition, along with soil from 

 under the old North Bridge at Concord as well as soil 

 from Tilloloy, France, thirty-five miles from Paris that 

 was destroyed during the war, were placed about the 

 roots of this tree. 



The tree is planted on the lawn of the Court House 

 and is in a thriving condition. Every year, on Washing- 

 ton's birthday, the Daughters of the American Revolution 

 will place a laurel wreath on this Liberty Tree. 



BIRD AND TREE CLUB APPROVES 



OLACING itself on record in favor of proposed for- 

 -*- estry legislation, the New York Bird and Tree Club 

 passed the following resolutions at its meeting on 

 December 10, 1920: 



Whereas, The forest resources of the United States 

 are being consumed about four times faster than they are 

 being replaced, and serious shortage already affects some 

 industries and threatens others ; 



Whereas, Vast areas of timber lands, unsuited to 

 agriculture, but capable of producing valuable forests, 

 are being cut with reckless disregard of the future and 

 being left as unproductive wastes which constitute a 

 heavy and unnecessary loss affecting the welfare of the 

 entire country ; 



Whereas, A supply of wood material is essential to 

 prosperity in time of peace, and vital to the national 

 defense in time of war, be it 



Resolved, That Congress of the United States is urged 

 to pass such legislation as will give the Federal Govern- 

 ment ample power to check forest devastation, and to 

 make sure that, while the interests of the forest owners 

 are safeguarded, the forests are maintained in a pro- 

 ductive condition. 



HE Lake States now pay $6,000,000 yearly in freight 

 bills to import lumber for their needs. 



ELECTRIC wires which touch trees can easily kill the 

 most beautiful shade tree. This may be due partly 

 to the work of the electric current, or to the wearing 

 through the growing surface of the tree by the wire, 

 which deprives the tree of its sustenance. 



