1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



507 



immediately that he actively undertook tal and jobbers an opportunity to do 



to carry out his obligations. 



Unit of Area The square mile 

 forms a desirable sale unit. This 

 would give lumbermen of limited capi- 



business on the public forest lands, 

 and if the number of miles which any 

 one concern may purchase be un- 

 limited no injustice will be done the 

 largest operators. 



COURSE IN PRACTICAL LUMBERING 



AT YALE 



Fund of $150,000 Being Raised by the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association for Endowment 

 of Chair of Lumbering Course Is Now Offered 



r T > HE new catalogue of the Yale For- 

 est School shows a number of 

 very important changes, chief of which 

 is the institution of a course in practical 

 lumbering. It will be remembered that 

 the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association has undertaken to raise 

 an endowment fund of $150,000 for 

 a chair of practical lumbering at the 

 Yale Forest School. This fund has not 

 been completed, but an arrangement 

 has been made by which the new work 

 in lumbering has been started this year. 

 No full professor of lumbering will 

 be appointed until the fund has been 

 completed, but the work for the pres- 

 ent will be under the direction of a 

 committee of lumbermen, consisting of 

 Mr. N. W. McLeod, of the Grayson & 

 McLeod Lumber Co. of St. Louis, and 

 President of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association ; Mr. C. I. 

 Millard, secretary of the Chicago 

 Lumber and Coal Co., St. Louis, and 

 Mr. F. E. Weyerhaeuser, of Weyer- 

 haeuser & Co., of St. Paul. The lec- 

 tures and the class work will be con- 

 ducted by practical lumbermen from 

 different parts of the country who are 

 especially expert in different branches 

 of the business. Arrangements are 

 now being made to secure these special 

 lectures, and an announcement will be 

 issued later of the men secured and the 

 subjects which will be taught. In ad- 

 dition- to the special lectures, instruc- 



tion will be given at New Haven in the 

 economics of the lumber industry in 

 the nation ; its position in commerce ; 

 industries dependent on it ; stumpage 

 prices ; upward movement of wood 

 prices ; future source of timber sup- 

 ply ; transportation of exports and im- 

 ports ; markets ; cost of logging of 

 New England second growth and in 

 the longleaf pine, white pine, loblolly 

 pine, southern hardwood, cypress, 

 spruce, hemlock, and Pacific Coast 

 regions. 



This work, as well as the field work, 

 is in charge of one of the new instruc- 

 tors, Mr. R. C. Bryant. Mr. Bryant 

 also has charge of the organization of 

 the field instruction. This field work 

 will consist of the preparation of a de- 

 tailed plan for lumbering a specified 

 woodlot in the vicinity of New Haven. 



The students estimate the amount of 

 timber on the tract ; investigate local 

 methods and cost of logging and mill- 

 ing; inquire into the character of ma- 

 terial demanded by the local markets, 

 and the value of such material. A 

 lumberman who operates portable saw- 

 mills in the vicinity of New Haven 

 assists in the field work. He visits 

 the woodlot in company with the stu- 

 dents, discusses the most economic uti- 

 lization of the various kinds and forms 

 of trees, and criticizes the estimates 

 and the methods of logging made by 

 the students. 



