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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



July 



Cody. The proposals will be received 

 at Hillings, Montana, and will be open- 

 ed on September 6, 1905. Particulars 

 may be obtained by addressing the 

 Chief Engineer, Washington, D. C., 



or 



the 



engineer 



in 



charge, Mr. J. 



Ahern, Cody, Wyoming. 



The following letter, 

 More About 

 _.. . ... commenting on the sug- 



Silviculture . . *? 



gestions contained in 



Mr. Schwarz's letter to the editor and 

 published in the June number of FOR- 



Editor FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION : 



Dear Sir : The proposal by Mr. 

 Frederick Schwartz, in FORESTRY AND 

 IRRIGATION for June, that portions of 

 the forest reserves be utilized as silvi- 

 cultural sample plots on a large scale, 

 deserves thorough consideration. 

 Probably every forester will admit 

 that our knowledge of silviculture at 

 the present time is almost purely em- 

 pirical. The notes found in the books 

 regarding the "silvicultural charac- 



MR. WALTER MULFORD 



First State Forester of Connecticut who did much to interest the people 

 of that state in forestry. He is now with the U. S. Forest Service, 

 but later will become a member of the Faculty of the Forest De- 

 partment at the University of Michigan. 



ESTRY ND IRRIGATION, from Mr. Er- 

 nest Bruncken, author of "American 

 Forests and Forestry," is given in full, 

 as an indication that the study of sil- 

 viculture in America is a subject of 

 deep interest to our foresters: 



ters" of forest species are hardly more 

 valuable than the directions printed on 

 the five-cent packages of garden seeds 

 one buys at the corner groceries. The 

 time for a scientific silviculture, how- 

 ever, has hardly yet arrived. It pre- 



