BOOK REVIEWS 



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Yale School of* 

 Forestry 



Established in 1900 



A Graduate Department of Yale 

 University. 



The two years technical course pre- 

 pares for the general practice of for- 

 estry and leads to the degree of 



Master of Forestry. 

 Special opportunities in all branches 

 of forestry for 



Advanced and Research Work. 

 For students planning to engage 

 in forestry or lumbering in the 

 Tropics, particularly tropical Amer- 

 ica, a course is offered in 



Tropical Forestry. 

 Lumbermen and others desiring in- 

 struction in special subjects may be 

 enrolled as 



Special Students. 

 A field course of eight weeks in the 

 summer is available for those not pre- 

 pared for, or who do not wish to 

 take the technical courses. 



For further information and cata- 

 logue, address : The Director of the \ 

 School of Forestry, New Haven, Con- S 

 I necticut, U. S. A. 



Forestry at 



University of 



Michigan 



Ann Arbor, Michigan 



AFOUR-Y EAR, undergraduate 

 course that prepares for the prac- 

 tice of Forestry in all its 

 branches and leads to the degree of 



BACHELOR OF SCIENCE 

 IN FORESTRY 



Opportunity is offered for grad- 

 uate work leading to the degree of 

 Master of Science in Forestry. 



The course is designed to give a 

 broad, well-balanced training in the 

 fundamental sciences as well as in 

 technical Forestry, and has, conse- 

 quently, proven useful to men en- 

 gaged in a variety of occupations. 



This school of Forestry was estab- 

 lished in 1903 and has a large body of 

 alumni engaged in Forestry work. 



For announcement giving 



complete information and list 



of alumni, address 



FILIBERT ROTH 



Revue des eaux et forests, February 1, 

 1918 Les transports en foret et l'en- 

 seignement de la guerre, by J. Demor- 

 laine, p. 32-40 ; Culture des resineaux 

 dans les forests devastees par la guerre, 

 by A. Jolyet, p. 25-31. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



A splendid little publication has just been 

 issued by the California Redwood Asso- 

 ciation and devoted to the use of Redwood 

 on the farm. The caption of the book is 

 "California Redwood on the Farm." It is 

 printed in color and is a splendid com- 

 panion piece for the beautiful interior trim 

 book of the same association. The book 

 contains 40 pages and is profusely illus- 

 trated with some splendid examples of 

 practically every feature of Redwood. 



The Brown Brethren, by Patrick Mac- 

 Gee, Geo. H. Doran Company, New York 

 City. The London Bookman says of it: 

 "A remarkable book, a thrilling, brutal, 

 beautiful picture of life and death with 

 the rank and file at the fighting front, by 

 a widely recognized genius who has seen 

 much of the hardest business over there. 

 The author pulls at our heart-strings all 

 the while, and we find illimitable pathos 

 and we feel illimitable love for the char- 

 acter of our most humorous and endear- 

 ing Allies, the London Irish." 



DRAINING A CYPRESS BRAKE 



In Cassidy's Bayou Drainage District 

 near Lyon, Mississippi, it became necessary 

 to drain a large cypress brake. To do it 

 called for a ditch 1400 feet long. Labor 

 was scarce and wages high so Lemar Fon- 

 tain, C. E., decided to try the new method 

 of ditching with dynamite. The work was 

 done in the winter when the weather was 

 comparatively cold. The soil was the Delta 

 buckshot, which was so sticky and waxy 

 that it would have been necessary to use 

 shovels to remove it from the scrapers if 

 it had been decided to try to dig the ditch 

 with teams and scrapers. 



The blasting experiment was entirely 

 successful and when completed, the ditch 

 was of the following approximate dimen- 

 sions : 6 feet wide at bottom ; deepest cut, 

 914 feet ; shallowest cut, 3 l / 2 feet. The 

 ditch had a 1 to 1 slope. The average 

 cost per yard was 9 cents. Many clods of 

 soil nearly 4 feet in diameter were thrown 

 out. This indicates the stiffness and sticki- 

 ness of the soil. This sort of ditch is 

 now being used in this locality for laterals 

 leading into dredge canals employed to 

 drain brakes. A very large amount of 

 this kind of work remains to be done in 

 Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, 

 Louisiana, Illinois, and Indiana. The meth- 

 od above described should, therefore, be of 

 interest to land owners and contractors in 

 these states. 



HARVARD 



UNIVERSITY 



DEPT. OF FORESTRY 

 BUSSEY INSTITUTION 



/~\FFERS specialized graduate 

 training leading to the de- 

 gree of Master of Forestry in the 

 following fields : Silviculture 

 and Management, Wood Tech- 

 nology, Forest Entomology, 

 Dendrology, and (in co-opera- 

 tion with the Graduate School 

 of Business Administration) the 

 Lumber Business. 



For further particulars 

 address 



RICHARD T. FISHER 



Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 



The 



New York State 



College of 



Forestry 



at 



Syracuse University, 



Syracuse, N. Y. 



UNDER-GRADUATE courses in 

 Technical Forestry, Paper and 

 Pulp Making, Logging and Lum- 

 bering, City Forestry, and Forest 

 Engineering, all leading to degree of 

 Bachelor of Science. Special oppor- 

 tunities offered for post-graduate 

 work leading to degrees of Master of 

 Forestry, Master of City Forestry, 

 and Doctor of Economics. 



A one-year course of practical 

 training at the State Ranger School 

 on the College Forest of 1,800 acres 

 at Wanakena in the Adirondacks. 



State Forest Camp of three months 

 open to any man over 16, held each 

 summer on Cranberry Lake. Men 

 may attend this Camp for from two 

 weeks to the entire summer. 



The State Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tion of 90 acres at Syracuse and an 

 excellent forest library offer unusual 

 opportunities for research work. 



