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PHILADELPHIA 



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 



begun soon after the property was re- 

 ceived. This operation will net the school 

 about $2,000. 



The Keene Forest of more than 1,000 

 acres, was given to the school several years 

 ago. It is composed chiefly of young 

 stands of white pine. Considerable pro- 

 gress has been made within the year in 

 increasing the holdings near Keene and in 

 selling of detached lots some distance 

 from the city. 60,000 white and red pine 

 seedlings were planted in the spring. The 

 book value of forest property now owned 

 by the school, together with endowment 

 and maintenance of the same exceeds $72,- 

 000. 



A recent compilation of alumni statistics 

 shows that exactly fifty graduates of this 

 school are on the faculties of twenty-four 

 universities and colleges, where they are 

 engaged in teaching forestry, and of this 

 number fifteen are deans or directors of 

 schools or are the heads of departments of 

 forestry. 



Mr. William Stuart Moir, of the class of 

 1917, is engaged in a year's study of forestry 

 in Sweden on a fellowship of the American- 

 Scandinavian Foundation. There are only 

 two of these fellowships open to foresters, 

 and there were many applications for them. 

 Mr. Moir was the first choice of the com- 

 mittee which met in Boston early in June, 

 1919. 



The Hubert C. Williams Memorial Fund 

 has been established by Mrs. Claire K. 

 Williams, of Lakeville, Connecticut, in 

 honor of her son, Hubert Coffing Williams, 

 of the class of 1908. Lieutenant Williams 

 died of wounds received while leading his 

 men of the 30th Engineers in the St. 

 Mihiel drive in September, 1918. He left 

 an insurance fund of $10,000 which will be 

 paid in installments over a period of 

 twenty years. This has been turned over 

 to Yale University as a loan fund for 

 needy and deserving students in the 

 School of Forestry. 



PRESERVING POLES AND POSTS 



TIMBER suitable for telegraph and tele- 

 phone poles, fence posts, etc., is be- 

 coming scarce and expensive. It is esti- 

 mated by the Forest Service that sixty 

 years hence will witness the practical ex- 

 tinction of such material. At present about 

 four million poles are being erected an- 

 nually. Records show that 95 per cent 

 of all poles are destroyed by decay, four 

 per cent by insects and the remaining one 

 per cent by mechanical abrasion. 



Scientists who have been giving the sub- 

 ject attention advise, as a result of ex- 

 periments conducted by them, that creo- 

 sote treatment applied to the ends of the 

 poles and posts imbedded in the ground will 

 lengthen the life of white cedar poles 14 

 years; of cypress, nine years; of chestnut, 

 four years; of pine, 13 years; of juniper, 

 10 years. 



There are three methods of treatment 

 adaptable to the purpose : The open tank 

 method whereby only the butts of the 

 poles are treated ; the pressure process, 

 used only on short poles, and the brush 

 method which may be applied in the field 

 as the poles are being set. The employ- 

 ment of the open tank method calls for 

 the application of the treatment before the 

 poles are shipped on the job. 



As creosote and the labor required to 

 apply it are much cheaper than new timber, 

 it is needless to say that railroad com- 

 panies, telegraph and telephone companies, 

 farmers and all others using large quanti- 

 ties of timber for poles and posts are 

 giving this matter much serious considera- 

 tion. Even yet, however, entirely too many 

 posts are being set untreated and unpro- 

 tected. This is a form of business ex- 

 travagance that is unwarranted. 



THE AIRPLANE IN FIGHTING 

 FOREST FIRES 



A IRPLANES will go anywhere over any 

 mountains not higher than 16,500 feet 

 and will travel fourteen hours easily with- 

 out landing, according to Colonel Hartz, 

 addressed the annual convention of the 

 of the U. S. Air Service, who recently 

 Western Forestry and Conservation Asso- 

 ciation at Portland, on locating fires from 

 airplanes, coming from Washington, D. C, 

 in a huge Martin bombing plane. 



An observer can see the forest fires 

 from a distance, he says, and by radio he 

 can communicate the location. His idea is 

 that the plane remain directly over the fire 

 until the fire-fighters arrive. It is possible 

 to fight fires from a plane with a gas 

 that was used by the Germans that re- 

 moves the oxygen from the air. Landing 

 places would have to be provided but this 

 could be done even in the mountain country 

 as the landings need not be smooth, merely 

 on ground from which the stumps have 

 been removed. Colonel Hartz described 

 the method of taking mosaic maps as they 

 are called, by a camera, of the country be- 

 neath, from the plane and he concludes that 

 planes are a perfectly sane and safe method 

 of traveling. 



PENCIL STOCK 



TN Tennessee the pencil companies are 

 said to be replacing old fences with new 

 woven-wire fences in order to secure the 

 cedar rails. An investigation of woods 

 not already used for pencils is being made 

 by a lumber company in California, whose 

 representatives have been in Washington 

 and Oregon for the purpose. The juniper, 

 the Alaska Yellow cedar, Port Orford 

 cedar and Idaho cedar are being studied 

 for both suitability and commercial supply. 

 This company operates both in Californ 

 and in the Tennessee red cedar district. 



