The Forester. 



Vol. VII. 



NOVEMBER, 1901. 



No. 1 1 . 



NEWS, NOTES, AND COMMENT. 



American For- The annual meeting of 

 estry Associa- the American Forestry 

 tion. Association will be held 



in Washington, D. C, on 

 Wednesday December nth. The election 

 of officers, presentation of reports, and 

 such other business as requires to come 

 before the entire Association will be trans- 

 acted at this meeting. There will two 

 sessions: one at 10:30 A. M. and the 

 second at 2:30 P. M., the meeting place 

 to be the same as last year, in the Metzerott 

 Building, 1 1 10 F Street. 



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Attendance 

 At the Forest 

 Schools. 



The rapid spread of inter- 

 est in forestry throughout 

 the country is being felt 

 in educational circles this 

 fall, and a most gratifying increase in at- 

 tendance is reported from the leading for- 

 est schools. At the New York State Col- 

 lege of Forestry, thirty-eight students are 

 enrolled this fall, an increase of one hun- 

 dred per cent, over the attendance of last 

 year. The men are divided as follows : 

 Three Seniors, six Juniors, nine Sopho- 

 mores, fourteen Freshmen, the remainder 

 being special students. 



From New Haven the following let- 

 ter has been received from Mr. Henry 

 S. Graves, Director of the Yale Forest 

 School : "In reply to your letter I would 

 say that there are in the Yale Forest School 

 this year ten men who will be classified as 

 second-year students, and twenty-one who 

 will be classified as first-year men. Our 

 incoming class is so large that it has been 

 necessary for us to refuse admittance to 

 three men who applied after the opening 

 of the school." 



There are eleven students at the Bilt- 

 more Forest School for the winter course. 



The men attend lectures everj morning 

 for two hours at the office of the Di- 

 rector, Dr. C. A. Schenck. During the 

 afternoons the students accompany^ 

 Schenck to such places as his practical 

 tasks as forester of the Biltmore estate call 

 him. 



In the South. Last month in this de- 

 partment mention was 

 made of the lively interest being taken in 

 forestry by private owners of woodlands 

 in the Southern states. Since then the 

 Bureau of Forestry has received additional 

 requests for aid in the management of 

 timberlands in that section. 



The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com- 

 pany has asked for a working plan lor its 

 tract of 12^,000 acres of mixed hard and 

 soft-woods, situated in Nicholas and Poca- 

 hontas counties, southeastern West Vir- 

 ginia. 



A request has been received from tin 

 Georgia Iron and Coal Company, with 

 headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. This com- 

 pany desires advice in the handling of 

 two tracts; one of 16,000 acres in Bartow 

 County, and the other of 30,000 acres in 

 Dade County. 



The foreo;oin<r include only the most 

 recent requests tor assistance from private 

 owners in the .South. The Bureau for 

 more than a year past has been cooperat- 

 ing in the handling of timber tracts in 

 that section. At Sewanee, Tenn., thedo- 

 maill of the University of the South con- 

 sisting of 7,000 acres ..I hardwoods, is 

 being lumbered according i" a working 

 plan made by the agents "i the Bureau. \ 

 working plan has also been compl< 

 IOO, OOO acres of pine lands in Arkac 

 bel< to the S.i. Austin Lum- 



