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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FORESTERS ATTENTION 



AMERICA* FORESTRY will gladly prlmt free 

 of charge la this column advertisements of for- 

 mers, lumbermen and woodsmen, discharged or 

 tboat to be discharged from military lerrlce, who 

 want positions, or of persons having employment 

 to offer such foresters, lumbermen or woodsmen 



POSITIONS WANTED 



GRADUATE FORESTER, 31 years old, married, 

 ex-service man, wants position as Forester. 

 Private estate or operating pulp company pre- 

 ferred. Have had 10 years experience in fores- 

 try work and practical lumbering. Address 

 Box 2O40, care AMERICAN FORESTRY, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. (3-5-21) 



WANTED Position with lumber company. 

 Graduate of 4-year college forestry course. Ex- 

 perience in wood technology, and the grading 

 and selling of hardwood and yellow pine lum- 

 ber. Address Box 2050, care of AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Washington, D. C. 



MARRIED MAN 30 years old, energetic, indus- 

 trious and systematic, with two years training 

 in forestry, wishes permanent position with 

 a paper and pulp company. To begin with is 

 willing to do most anything. Address Box 

 2055, care AMERICAN FORESTRY, Washing- 

 ton, D. C (3-0-2I) 



TECHNICAL FORESTER with considerable ex- 

 perience in various phases of practical forestry 

 and sawmill work, desires position with manu- 

 facturing concern in the East or Middle-West. 

 Dry-kiln work, offering opportunity for devel- 

 opment preferred. Address Box 2000, care 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY, Washington, D. C. 



YOUNG MAN, 36, single, technical trained and 



r Tactical experience in forestry, tree surgery, 

 andscaping and orchard care, wants to get in 

 business for himself as city forester in an ex- 

 cellent location anywhere in the United States. 

 Will also consider position as forester on large 

 estate. Employed at present and best of refer- 

 ences. Address Box 2085, care AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY Magazine, Washington, D. C. 



POSITION WANTED by young graduate fores- 

 ter. Six years practical field work in forestry 

 and lumbering. Am now employed but desire 

 change. Box 2075, care AMERICAN FORES- 

 TRY, Washington, D. C. (4-7-21) 



FORESTRY GRADUATE, age 30, several years 

 experience in forest work, including city fores- 

 ter, landscape development, portable logging, 

 reforestation, knowledge and experience In 

 farming and farm machinery. At present em- 

 ployed along technical and administrative lines. 

 will be open near future for responsible posi- 

 tion, preferably in development and manage- 

 ment of private forest or estate. Box 2070, care 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY Magazine, Washing- 

 ton, D. C (4-7-21) 



YOUNG MAN with master's degree in forestry 

 and who also has had experience in city fores- 

 try, tree surgery, and esthetic forest planting 

 desires a position in any phase of forestry 

 logging, lumbering, forest management, or city 

 and esthetic forestry where marked ability will 

 bring advancement. Would also consider a 

 position as part time instructor in botany, the 

 remaining time as city forester. Have taught 

 botany while a graduate student in one of the 

 foremost universities in America. An ex- 

 officer of the World War. Address Box 2080, 

 care AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, 

 Washington, D. C. (4-021) 



POSITION WANTED by graduate forester, vet- 

 eran 10th Engineers, at present lumber inspector 

 Pennsylvania System, experience in French 

 forests, Southern Pine and Northern Hardwoods. 

 Desire position as forester for private estate or 

 other work. North preferred. Address Box 

 2085. care AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGA 

 ZINE, Washington, D. C. (4-S-21) 



POSITION WANTED BY FORESTER. A 

 healthy United States citizen, 3d years old, ac- 

 tively engaged in logging in equatorial America, 

 where he has done considerable practical and 

 scientific pioneer work, now wants to return to 

 work under more civilized and progressive con- 

 ditions. Has 12 years' bush and mill experi- 

 ence. He works best where difficulties and prob- 

 lems are greatest. He is a practical enthusiast 

 for constructive and reconstructive forestry, and 

 desires to make connection with a body recog- 

 nizing said qualities. Address Box 2090, care of 

 American Forestry Magazine, Washington, D. 

 C. (0-8-21). 



EX-SERVICE MAN wishes employment with 

 some Forest a Construction Concern or Irrigation 

 Company which can use a young man who is a 

 Technical High School Graduate, and who is a 

 Mechanical Draftsman with some slight knowl- 

 edge of plane surveying. Willing to work and can 

 do same. Address Box 2095, AMERICAN FOR- 

 ESTRY MAGAZINE, Washington, D. C. (0 8-21) 



POSITIONS OPEN 



Nursery in Central West 



Is looking for a capable, experienced young man, 

 especially fitted for the growing of forest tree 

 and evergreen seedlings for commercial purposes. 

 Must be a man of initiative and one who can 

 plan his work. Give references, facts and ex- 

 perience and state salary desired. 



REPLY TO BOX 5000 

 CARE OF AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



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ENGLAND ASKS SYRACUSE FOR 

 FOREST SPECIALISTS 



"C'NGLAND has just paid a handsome 

 compliment to the New York State 

 College of Forestry at Syracuse and Dr. 

 Harry P. Brown, Professor of Wood Tech- 

 nology, in that institution, by offering him 

 the position of wood technologist in the 

 Imperial Forest Research Institute, 

 Dehra Dun, United Provinces, India. 

 The offer to Dr. Brown came directly Lorn 

 the India Office, Whitehall, London, and 

 was signed by Kershaw, Under Secretary 

 of State of India. 



Upon learning that Dr. Brown had been 

 offered this position, Dr. Herbert Stone, 

 Special Lecturer at the University of Cam- 

 bridge, School of Forestry, and author of 

 several books on forestry, wrote as follows : 



"I am very glad to hear that you have 

 an offer of a post in the Indian Forest 

 Service at Dehra Dun. There is no service 

 in the world where a man is so liberally 

 treated. It is the Mecca of the pick of the 

 younger men. The qualifications insisted 

 upon for probationership are so severe 

 that only the cleverest men can hope to 



stand a chance. I know no one on this 

 side that I should care to recommend. I 

 congratulate the service in obtaining the 

 best man." 



During the seven years he has been con- 

 nected with the College of Forestry Dr. 

 Brown has built up a strong department 

 and has contributed many articles to sci- 

 entific and technical journals on the struc- 

 ture of wood. He has recently completed 

 a book entitled "Forest Trees of New 

 York" which will shortly appear as a 

 bulletin to be issued by the College. 



After mature deliberation Dr. Brown has 

 decided to decline the offer and remain 

 with the College of Forestry. 



FORESTRY OPPORTUNITIES IN 

 SOUTH AMERICA 



r PHE prospect of large lumber operations 

 in South America carried on by inter- 

 ests from the United States is opening a 

 field of promising possibilities to the 

 American forester. This situation has 

 caused the faculty of the New York State 

 College of Forestry to consider the advis- 

 ability of increasing the language require- 

 ment:; of the Spanish course. 



The value of Spanish to the American 

 forester is a reflection of the growing 

 scarcity of forests in the United States and 

 Canada and the availability of the South 

 American supply. The consequential high 

 prices of wood products make lumbering 

 in distant countries profitable. South 

 America presents a new sphere of discov- 

 ery in wood utilization as there are many 

 species of trees about which little is known 

 regarding their applicability to commer- 

 cial purposes. 



MAPPING LIGHTNING ZONES 



rPHE time-worn theory that "lightning 

 never strikes twice in the same place," 

 has been modified by forest experts of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture 

 to this extent : Lightning very often strikes 

 in nearly the same places. It has its 

 zones, in other words, where its appearance 

 may usually be counted on with each 

 electrical storm. 



With the accumulation of data on causes 

 and locations of fires in the national 

 forests, these lightning zones could be 

 mapped out and protective measures intro- 

 duced such as fire lines, regulated graz- 

 ing and cleaning out of dead trees which 

 would more or less automatically control 

 lightning fires at the start, the foresters 

 believe. 



Next to campers and sparks from loco- 

 motives, lightning ranks third as the 

 source of fires in the national forests. The 

 records of the Forest Service of the depart- 

 ment show that for the years 1914 1918, 

 inclusive, lightning caused on the average 

 30 per cent of all fires reported. However, 

 during 1920, a very unusual season, over 50 

 per cent of the 6,078 fires that occurred In 

 the national forests were set by lightning. 



