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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ATTENTION, FORESTERS! 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will print, free 

 of charge in this column, advertisements 

 of foresters wanting positions, or of per- 

 sons having employment to offer foresters. 

 This privilege is also extended to foresters, 

 lumbermen and woodsmen who want posi- 

 tions, or to persons having employment to 

 offer such foresters, lumbermen or woods- 



POSITIONS WANTED 



"LAND OWNERS, are your holdings burden- 

 .ouie? Perhaps there is a better way of getting 

 an income from them or turning them into cash 

 than has yet occurred to you. It will cost 

 Tou nothing to talk your troubles over with 

 LAND SPECIALIST, temporarily unemployed, 

 with 25 years' experience at lumbering, fores- 

 try, farming and agricultural organization in 

 the Northwest. Write description of location. 

 toDogranhy. soil. etc.. in reply. Box 4010. care 

 AMERfcIk FORESTRY 'mAGAZINE, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



GRADUATE FORESTER Experienced; eight 

 years state forest management, four years nur- 

 sery landscape and horticultural work, desires 

 connection with firm or individual interested in 

 forests or nurseries for conjmercial Pi?rposes. 

 Address Box 4020, care AMERICAN FORES- 

 TRY MAGAZINE, Washington, D. C. (6-8-22) 



POSITION WANTED BY A TECHNICALLY 

 TRAINED FORESTER at present employed as 

 forest manager on one of the biggest private es- 

 tates in Pennsylvania; 35 years experience. Can 

 furnish the best reference. Address Box 4030, 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Wash- 

 ington, D. C (6-9-22) 



FORESTER, University Graduate; 28 years of 

 age; ex-service man; several years' experience 

 in the paper industry as an executive, also sales 

 experience, desires Position Best references. 

 Address Box 4040. care AMERICAN FORES- 

 TRY, Washington, D. C. (7-9-22) 



YOUNG MAN, 32 years old; married; graduate ot 

 Cornell University; B. S., 1914; M. F., 1915 with 

 five years' experience in the United States 

 Forest Service. Desires position as forester 

 with a lumber company or private estate. The 

 best of references. Address Box 4050, care 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. (7--22) 



FOREST ENGINEER, a graduate with eight 

 years experience as chief of timberland depart- 

 ment of large Eastern paper manufacturing 

 company is open for position with company 

 ooerating Eastern spruce lands. Address Box 

 M55, care AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, 

 Washington. D. C^ (8-10-22) 



GRADUATE FORESTER, at present employed 

 by a 'Timber and Land Development Company, 

 desires position as Forester or Superintendent 

 on Private Estate, or in Park work. Experi- 

 enced in Tree planting and Pruning, the hand- 

 ling of Shrubbery, Fire Protection and Log- 

 ging operations. A willing worker as well as 

 equipped to direct others. Box 40M, care 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. (9-11-22) 



FORESTER, with ten years' experience as tech- 

 nical assistant and forest supervisor, now in 

 charge of western National Forest, desires to 

 make connection with commercial organization 

 with opportunity of improving present position. 

 Address Box 4065. care AMERICAN FORESTRY 

 MAGAZINE. Washington. D. C. 



FORESTER Experienced graduate, eight years 

 state forest management, five years nUrsery 

 and landscape practice. Agricultural and hor- 

 ticultural training on farm and orchard. Pre- 

 pared to get results from stock, fruit or forest. 

 Can teach or practice. Box 4070, care AMERI- 

 CAN FORESTRY, Washington, D. C (10-12-22) 



WANTED 



WANTED-FORESTERS AND RANGERS to act 

 as District Superintendents and book orders for 

 fruit and ornamental trees, evergreens, shrubs, 

 etc. Pay weekly. Oimplete equipment. State 

 territory desired. Full or part time. Address 

 5??,!"'?;,"" AMERICAN FORESTRY MAGA- 

 ZINE. Washington, D. C. (4-8-22) 



HOW TO KNOW TRUE MAHOGANY 



Under the name of "mahogany" the wood 

 of more than 6o different kinds of trees has 

 at one time or another been marketed, ac- 

 cording to the Forest Service, United 

 States Department of Agriculture Most 

 of these woods come from the tropics, but 

 sometimes even American birch and red 

 gum are used in furniture and sold as 

 genuine mahogany. For the benefit of those 

 who wish to be able to identify the various 

 kinds of woods likely to be called mahogany 

 the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture has issued a bulletin which tells how 

 each kind may be distinguished. 



Botanists class as "true mahogany" only 

 trees of a single genus, called "Swietenia." 

 of which five, species are now known. True 

 mahogany in this sense grows only in trop- 

 ical America, from southern Florida and 

 northern Mexico to northern South Amer- 

 ica, including the West Indies. But the 

 same region furnishes other woods which 

 may take the trade name of mahogany, as 

 may also various woods from Africa and 

 the Philippines, some of which are rather 

 near relatives of true mahogany. 



The question, "What is mahogany?" is 

 therefore decidedly complex. Trade usage 

 gives the name, with various degrees of 

 property, to many kinds of imported woods, 

 differing materially in cost and intrinsic 

 quality, while the uncritical buyer may now 

 be led to purchase as "genuine mahogany" 

 articles manufactured from .American woods 

 of much lower value. Obviously such con- 

 ditions raise diflkult questions of trade 

 ethics. 



Those who wish to tell for themselves 

 what kind of tree a piece of "mahogany" 

 actually came from will find in Bulletin 

 No. loso of the United States Department 

 of .\griculture. The Identification of True 

 Mahogany Certain So-Called Mahoganies, 

 and Some Common Substitutes, by Arthur 

 Koehler, specialist in wood structure of 

 the Forest Service, a carefully constructed 

 key and detaikd descriptions of the prop- 

 erties and structure of a considerable num- 

 ber of species of woods which reach the 

 American markets under this name. A 

 hand magnifying glass and a piece of the 

 wood which can be cut to show structure 

 and color are all the equipment needed to 

 apply the key. 



FERNOW HALL 



The trustees of Cornell University, at 

 a meeting held in June, decided to officially 

 name the Forestry Building at Cornell 

 "Fernow Hall." This action followed a 

 recommendation made to Dean Mann of 

 the College of Agriculture by the For- 

 estry De;partment staff and subsequently 

 approved by the Agricultural Council. It 

 is. of course, a well-merited recognition of 

 Dr. Fernow's lifetime activity in forestry 

 and it is particularly appropriate that the 

 Forestry Building at Cornell should bear 

 the name of the director of the first for- 

 est school in the United States. 



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 one 

 year of eight months. 



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 Purthtr Particulars Aidrtst 



Dean, School of Forestry 



University of Idaho 



Moscow, Idaho 



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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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Fonr mnd five-year nnderiraduate coaraea 

 aod a two-year graduate courie in techni- 

 cal forestry, leading to the degreet of 

 Bachelor of Science m 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. 



Bryant's Logging 



The Principles and General Methods of 

 Operation in the United States.' By 

 Ralph Clement Bryant, F.E., M.A., Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, Professor of 

 Lumbering, Yale University, 590 pages, 

 6 by 9. 133 figures. Cloth net, $4.50 



A discussion at length of the chief facili- 

 ties and methods for the movement of the 

 timber from stump to manufacturing plant, 

 especially logging railroads. 



