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nent, are indispensable; but it is now im- 

 >ortantthat the Filippino graduates of the 

 lative colleges should be instructed in 

 cientific forestry, and be induced to enter 

 he service. Some men who have already 

 iad scientific training are also needed 

 rom this country. An application has 

 een made to the School of Forestry at 

 Cornell for such men, and Judge W. H. 

 ?aft, of the Philippine Commission, 

 ecently cabled to the Division of Forestry 

 or four foresters. The men who go out 

 /ill be employed both in instructing the 

 'hilippinos and in practical work under 

 ie Bureau of Forestry. 



Among the applications 

 rom a Maine jr j i 



aper Company, tor advice and assistance m 

 managing woodlands which 

 ave recently been received by the Divis- 

 >n of Forestry of the U. S. Department 

 f Agriculture is one from the Great 

 Northern Paper Company of Maine. This 

 Dinpany owns a tract of 300,000 acres on 

 ie Penobscot and Kennebec rivers, chiefly 

 pruce land. It is undertaking to lumber 

 i such a manner that the same acres can 

 e cut over repeatedly with good profit, 

 id is making use of the aid and advice of 

 ained foresters in order that its estimates 

 id the plans and methods which it adopts 

 lay be reliable and best adapted to the ends 

 i view. The surveys and measurements 

 i which the Division of Forestry will base 

 ie working plan to be submitted to the corn- 

 will probably be begunnext spring. 



mmer's T . h . e ficld work f the D '- 



eld-work of vision of Forestry of the 



e Division Department of Agriculture, 

 Forestry. i i i u 



which has been carried on 



many parts of the country by parties of 

 fferent sizes since last May, has now 

 >en largely completed for 1000. This 

 immer's work was carried on in New 

 ork, Tennessee, Missouri, Colorado, 

 auth Dakota, Arkansas. Ari/ona, Wash- 

 gton, Oregon, California, a number of 

 se-planting States of the Middle West, 

 id, in a small wav, in other .Stales be- 

 ies. Much new and valuable informa- 

 )n has been collected, and a very large 

 unber of surveys have been made, of the 



results of which it will soon be possible to 

 make practical applications. 



The work which has thus been going on 

 in the field consisted of making forest sur- 

 veys and of gathering measurements and 

 information about growth, stand, repro- 

 duction, etc. Much of it, as that in the 

 Black Hills Forest Reserve, in the Adi- 

 rondacks, and on the tract of the Sa\\ver 

 & Austin Lumber Company in Arkansas, 

 is preparatory to the preparation of what 

 are called " working plans," or plans for 

 the management and utilization of given 

 tracts of timber. The rest of the work of 

 the field parties has been more of the char- 

 acter of investigations as, for instance, 

 the examination of the influence of forest 

 cover on waterflow which was made on 

 the watershed of the Arrowhead river in 

 southern California, the studies of the 

 habits of growth and reproduction of the 

 two most important lumber trees of tin- 

 Pacific coast the Red Fir and the Red- 

 wood, and the survey of the results of 

 tree-planting enterprises which have been 

 undertaken in the northern part of the 

 Mississippi Valley. 



During the coming winter the agents of 

 the Division will spend most of their time 

 in working up the results of the summer's 

 surveys and in preparing reports on them, 

 although there will doubtless be some Held 

 work as well. 



Denver Chamber "Colorado business men 

 of Commerce on recognize the benefit that 

 Irrigation. attaches to their State 



through the work of the Government 

 along the lines of irrigation investigation 

 and surveys for reservoir sites. The Den- 

 ver Chamber of Commerce and Hoard of 

 Trade last month adopted \igorous : 

 lutions calling attention to the great de- 

 velopment possible in Colorado, through 

 irrigation, and to the gencrallv accepted 

 opinion that onl\ by (he storage ot t! 

 waters can the future problem .ilfrcling 

 successful farming in the .nid legion U- 

 so|\ed, and pledging support to the I 'nile.l 

 States ( Jeologiciil Survey in securing large 

 Congressional appropriations lor carrying 

 on their work of surveys of re^-i \ "h site-, 

 and other nreliminai v irrigation work. 



