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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



School of Forestry 



UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 



Four Year Course, with oppor- 

 tunity to specialize in General 

 Forestry, Logging Engineer- 

 ing and Forest Grazing. 



Forest Ranger Course, of high 

 school grade, covering two 

 years of five months each. 



Special Short Course, covering 

 twelve weeks designed for 

 those who cannot take the time 

 for the fuller courses. 



No tuition is charged for any 

 of the above courses, and other- 

 wise expenses are the lowest. 



Correspondence Course. A 

 course in Lumber and Its 

 Uses is given by correspon- 

 dence for which a nominal 

 charge is made. 



For Further Particulars Address 



Dean, School of Forestry 



University of Idaho 



Moscow, Idaho 





ANIMAL INGENUITY OF 

 TODAY 



By C A. EALAND, M.A. The author's 

 love of nature is shown on every page. 

 He describes the skill, clever devices, 

 and strategems of birds, reptiles, in- 

 sects, and other forms of animal life 

 how they order their lives, and protect 

 themselves. The world of nature is a 

 real wonderland, and Mr. Ealand the 

 best sort of a guide through it. Pro- 

 fusely illustrated $2.25 



FORESTRY TRAINING 



In the Heart of the Rockies 



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The Colorado School of Forestry 



A Department of Colorado 

 College 



Colorado Springs, Colorado 



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Four and five-year undergraduate courses 

 and a two-year graduate course in techni- 

 cal forestry, leading to the degrees of 

 Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Mas- 

 ter of Forestry. 



Forestry teaching in spring and fall at 

 Manitou Forest (a 7,000-acre forest belong- 

 ing to the School) and the winter term at 

 Colorado Springs. 



Write for announcement giving full in- 

 formation. 



LOGGING IN SWAMPS 

 A NEW five-ton Franklin-Bullock tractor, 

 ** equipped with a powerful all-steel 

 winch, making it adaptable for all logging 

 purposes, has just been produced by the 

 Franklin Tractor Company. The tractor, 

 which is of the crawler type and capable 

 of working on any sort of ground, can be 

 used for skidding and loading and can 

 also provide power for hauling. These 

 outfits have been used successfully in many 

 different sections of the country where the 

 variety of work has made it ipossible for 

 them to prove equally effeotive in moun- 

 tains, swamps, and sand. The economy of 

 operation, through the use of this method 

 of logging, makes possible a great saving. 

 As a ground skidder, the tractor can easily 

 handle logs scaling as high as 2,000 feet 

 board measure. It has a working radius 

 of 700 feet from the mast tree. Logs 



THE NEW TRACTOR CAN BE USED FOR 

 SKIDDING AND LOADING, AND IS CAPABLE 

 OF WORKING ON ANY TYPE OF GROUND 



can be assembled, cut into desired lengths, 

 and piled on the landing ready for loading 

 without the use of a single team. Not 

 only are the expenses of drivers' wages 

 and team maintenance eliminated, but an 

 increased output is secured as well. An- 

 other outstanding feature of the Franklin 

 tractor is its mobility. Practically no time 

 is lost in moving from one setting to an- 

 other. This makes it possible to assemble 

 logs at relatively small costs at places 

 easily accessible to trucks, wagons, or 

 teams. As a loader the new tractor can 

 be used with an ordinary jammer or a 

 mast and boom. When the tractor is used 

 for skidding or loading, none of the trac- 

 tive parts are in operation. Logging men 

 who have been accustomed to have their 

 tractors run to each individual log as it 

 lies in the woods can easily realize what 

 this saving of wear means. By having the 

 tractor remain in the stationary position 

 and using a line for hauling in the log, 

 depreciation, which is always a big item in 

 the cost of operation, is virtually elimi- 

 nated. The accompanying photograph 



shows a Franklin-Bullock at work in a 

 Southern swamp. Here 800 feet of line 

 was used and with the tractor a proper 

 distance from the mast tree a 700 foot 

 haul was possible. While at this setting, 

 the tractor hauled in a log 76 feet long 

 and three feet in diameter at the large end. 

 During the same day, several trees more 

 than 90 feet long were brought in without 

 difficulty. An interesting feature of this 

 operation was that the owners of the tim- 

 ber were reclaiming trees formerly aban- 

 doned because of their inaccessibility. Sev- 

 eral concerns who have heretofore been 

 unable to bring out valuable trees because 

 of swamps are planning to use outfits 

 similar to this one to cut down the waste 

 of their timber. 



MORE PECANS 

 '"PHE latest report on pecans shows the 

 finest crop of record, considering the 

 United States as a whole, the promise be- 

 ing for 89 per cent of a full crop. Last 

 year 27 per cent of a full crop was realized. 

 An unusual fact is that this year the 

 promise is from good to excellent in prac- 

 tically all portions of the belt. The quali- 

 ty of the nuts is 88 compared to 73 last 

 year. 



The development of the pecan industry 

 during the past 10 years has been remark- 

 able. A ready market has developed for 

 the improved varieties. Vast quantities of 

 pecans were formerly allowed to waste in 

 the forests, or were gathered only by the 

 hogs, but the wild crop is now much more 

 closely gathered and increasing attention 

 is being given to the native groves. Im- 

 mense plantings of improved pecan trees 

 in the Southeastern States are coming 

 rapidly into bearing, and the orchards that 

 have been conducted on sound business 

 principles are proving a profitable invest- 

 ment. 



SQUIRRELS PLANT BLACK WAL- 

 NUT GROVES 

 "DOUNCING along the fence rail like a 

 bit of animated thistledown, he man- 

 ages to convey the impression that he 

 hasn't a serious thought in his head, and 

 few would suspect that the squirrel is the 

 chap who supplied the American Army with 

 the wood for its gunstocks, though he 

 didn't mean to do it of course. He was 

 looking after his own food supply, saving 

 the resources of summer against the famine 

 of winter, but incidentally he placed a big 

 deposit to man's account in Nature's sav- 

 ings bank. 



The Forest Service, United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, is authority for the 

 statement that the squirrel, through his 

 habit of burying nuts, has been the most 

 important agent in the reproduction of the 

 black walnut groves. The timber from the 

 groves planted years ago by the squirrels 

 satisfied an important need during the war 

 when walnut was used to make gunstocks 

 and airplane propellers. 



