Forestry and Irrigation. 



VOL. XL 



NOVEMBER, 1905. 



No. ii 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Fifty students are taking 



Forestry f . , 



In Nebraska work m the department 

 of forestry, University of 

 Nebraska, this semester, and the en- 

 rollment in the courses in farm forestry 

 to be given next semester will bring a 

 total of about ninety under instruction 

 in forestry this year. Some twenty- 

 five are specializing in this subject. 

 Three men expect to graduate from 

 the full four-year course next June. 

 It is very gratifying that the work has 

 gone beyond the preparation of men 

 for the profession, as students are be- 

 ginning to elect certain courses in for- 

 estry because they wish to acquire a 

 general knowlege of the subject, thus 

 recognizing that forestry has come to 

 have a rightful place in the university 

 curriculum. 



The University Forest Club, organ- 

 ized last year, meets every two weeks 

 for the discussion of forestry ques- 

 tions. 



Ranger 

 Meetings 



In order to encourage 

 good work in the ranger 

 corps on the forest re- 

 serves, supervisors will hereafter hold 

 meetings from time to time, which the 

 rangers will attend for the discussion 

 of business relating to the reserves 

 and the offering of suggestions for the 

 best solution of the local forest prob- 

 lems. Such a meeting was held a few 

 days ago on the Manti Reserve in 

 Utah. The laws and regulations gov- 

 erning the use of the reserves and sales 

 of timber were discussed, and sug- 

 gestions were offered by which the 

 demand for timber and for other re- 

 sources might be met with the greatest 

 advantage to the forest. The time of 

 the meeting coincided with the visit of 



Forest Inspector T. H. Sherrard. A 

 greater esprit de corps and a more 

 thorough and intelligent knowledge of 

 reserve work will undoubtedly result 

 from these meetings. 



New The study of forest con- 



Hampshire ditions in southern New 

 Hampshire which the 

 Forest Service is making in co-opera- 

 tion with that state is rapidly nearing 

 completion. Seven men have been en- 

 gaged upon the work during the entire 

 summer. This study supplements the 

 one already made by the Forest Ser- 

 vice for the forest conditions of north- 

 ern New Hampshire. 



In connection with this work, the 

 agents of the service have completed 

 a large number of preliminary woodlot 

 examinations in response to applica- 

 tions made by farmers and other wood- 

 land owners in the region. Mill scale 

 work has also been carried on with a 

 view to discovering the comparative 

 grades of white pine boards sawed 

 from logs of various sizes. As the 

 supply of white pine of large diameter 

 decreases, the value of wide boards 

 naturally rises, so that in calculating 

 the return to be expected from a future 

 crop the higher relative value of trees 

 of large diameter must figure as an 

 important factor. Furthermore, rela- 

 tively more good quality material can 

 be sawed from logs of the larger di- 

 mensions. 



Seven electric companies 

 doing business in Cali- 

 fornia have made ar- 

 rangements with the Forest Service 

 for a thorough co-operative study of 

 seasoning and preserving telephone 



Study of 

 Poles 



