AMERICAN FORESTRY 



CLOSE FOREST UTILIZATION 



A GROSS return of approximately $500 



per acre of forest land, compared with 



a return of less than $300 an acre, had the 



timber thereon been cut for lumber alone, 



is given as an illustration of the results of 



close forest utilization by Howard F. 



Weiss, of the C. F. Burgess Laboratories, 



.Madison, Wisconsin, in the last issue of 



;the Journal of Forestry. Mr. Weiss bases 



his figures upon a survey made several 



years ago in the Pennsylvania forests. He 



says that the return to the lumber company 



cutting hemlock logs was $288 per acre 



*$45 per acre came from gathering four 



and one-half cords of hemlock bark; $?' 



per acre or $4 per cord was the return 



ifrom using hemlock tops and culls for 



pulp ; the mill waste was sold for both 



kindling and pulp with a return of $25 per 



acre ; the hardwoods on the tract were 



'manufactured into staves at $6 a thousand 



for the 13,000 per acre obtained, or $78. 



and about $48 per acre came from cutting 



<he small and defective hardwood waste 



:into "chemical wood" at a return of $4 



per cord. 



FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



FARM BUREAU ORGANIZES FORES- 

 TRY DEPARTMENT 



'T'HE Michigan State Farm Bureau at 

 Lansing, Michigan, has made a unique 

 move in organizing a forestry department 

 as one of the eleven departments in the 

 development of its educational work for 

 the benefit of the 98,000 farmers of Michi- 

 gan. Some of the more important phases 

 extended to the farmers of the State 

 who produce wood products are the con- 

 duct of State wide marketing pools of farm 

 timber products, such as fence posts, fuel, 

 rt wood, etc., the marketing of maple 

 syrup for Michigan makers, the stimula- 

 tion of the use and improvement of the 

 marketing and of forest tree nuts and seeds. 

 A cruising service is also to be extended 

 to small woodland owners, together with 

 working plans for the encouragement of 

 the "annual crop" idea, the timber thus 

 remaining in the ownership of the farmer. 



LUMBER FOR SEWING MACHINES 

 r FBOUT 60 million feet of lumber are 

 used annually in the manufacture of 

 sewing machines. Oak and red gum each 

 supply nearly one-third of this lumber, and 

 yellow poplar and black walnut each a 

 little more than one-eighth, the balance be- 

 ing made up of tupelo, chestnut, cotton- 

 wood, maple, basswood, birch, sycamore, 

 mahogany, yellow pine and redwood. Tops 

 of sewing machines are usually made of 

 hardwood veneers such as oak or walnut, 

 or of other woods stained to imitate ma- 

 hogany. The sewing machine industry is 

 centered largely in Indiana and Illinois. 



UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA 

 SUMMER FOREST SCHOOL 



pROFESSOR J. G. LEE, of the chair of 

 forestry at the State University, and 

 a member of the board, fathered the inau- 

 guration of a Summer School of Forestry 

 for advanced pupils at the university and 

 others, with the advantage of practical ex- 

 perience in the woods at Urania in La 

 Salle County, and at Bogalusa, where is 

 located the world's largest lumber mill. 

 This school will be conducted in conjunc- 

 tion with the State University School of 

 Forestry. 



The idea of the boys' forestry clubs so 

 appealed to Colonel W. H. Sullivan, of the 

 Great Southern Lumber Company, that he 

 agreed to offer prizes next year of $500 for 

 tl e best results and demonstrations in for- 

 estry achieved by boys. The suggestion 

 was heartily endorsed by Commissioner 

 Alexander. 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 

 SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 



r PHIS year the Idaho School of Forestry 

 is offering a sp cial vocational course 

 to meet the needs of disabled soldiers re- 

 ceiving federal training under the Rehabili- 

 tation Act. The curriculum is divided into 

 quarteily units and the work is arranged 

 so that each unit is practically independent, 

 thus permitting students to enter at the 

 beginning of any quarter and take up the 

 work without being dependent upon the 

 previous units. In order to facilitate the 

 instruction, these units are so arranged that 

 the terms of the Ranger Course corre- 

 spond with the units of the Vocational 

 Course, thus making it possible to handle 

 the two classes together. 



COMPULSORY FIRE PREVENTION 

 EDUCATION 



'T'HE Forest Service of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture is prepar- 

 ing to give active co-operation to a meas- 

 ure undertaken by the Fire Marshals' Asso- 

 ciation of North America to bring about leg- 

 islation for compulsory fire prevention edu- 

 cation in the States whose legislatures con- 

 vene this winter, according to a bulletin sent 

 out by the National Board of Fire Under- 

 writers. This is a highly important devel- 

 opment in the educational field and should 

 receive the hearty support of public-spirited 

 people everywhere, as it not only concerns 

 the public safety, but is intimately con- 

 n cted with the preservation of our forests 

 from destruction by fire. 



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BOX MAKING IN NEW ENGLAND 



1VOT less than $50,000,000 worth of 

 wooden boxes are manufactured in 

 New England each year by the 210 estab- 

 lishments engaged in the business. The 

 lumber used by the box factories amounts 

 to 670,000,000 feet. About 6,000 men are 

 employed in the factories. 



At present paper manufacturers are of- 

 fering prices* for lumber that makes it 

 difficult for box manufacturers to secure 

 material. The sawmills of northern New 

 England arc closing because the paper 

 manufacturers will pay more for the logs 

 in the water than can be obtained for the 

 sawed boards. 



The box business is one which touches 

 all other industries and upon which nearly 

 all are more or less dependent. New Eng- 

 land was first in the field and has always 

 done a lion's share of box manufacturing, 

 drawing upon the forests of Maine, New 

 Hampshire and Massachusetts for the lum- 

 ber and looking to the neighboring manu- 

 facturers for a market. The manufac- 

 ture of boxes is as old as civilization. The 

 Egyptians made mummy cases of wood 

 smeared with bitumen. Some of these 

 gruesome cases, 6000 years old, are still in 

 existence. 



School of Forestry 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 



Four Year Course, with op- 

 portunity to specialize in 

 General Forestry, Log- 

 ging Engineering, and 

 Forest Grazing. 



Forest Ranger Course of 

 high school grade, cover- 

 ing three years of five 

 months each. 



Special Short Course cover- 

 ing twelve weeks design- 

 ed for those who cannot 

 take the time for the 

 fuller courses. 



Correspondence Course in 

 Lumber and Its Uses. No 

 tuition, and otherwise ex- 

 penses are the lowest. 



For Further Particulars Address 



Dean, School of Forestry 

 University of Idaho 

 Moscow, Idaho 



