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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



November 



Ordinarily the senior class has been 

 sent into the woods at Thanksgiving 

 for a trip of three weeks, and again 

 about the middle of April, for the final 

 field practice of the course. This year 

 the class will be held in New Haven 

 during the entire fall term, but will be 

 sent into the woods about March ist, 

 where the students will remain until 

 graduation, thus confining the field 

 work to one trip. This field work will 

 be conducted in a place where the cli- 

 mate is favorable for work as early 

 as March, and where the conditions 

 are satisfactory for instruction. 



During the spring term the students 

 will be given final practice in timber 

 estimating ; topographic surveying ; 

 laying out logging roads, (both rail 

 and wagon) ; selection of logging 

 camp sites ; construction, equipment 

 and maintenance of logging camps; 

 methods of logging; transportation to 

 mill ; handling logs at mill ; sawmills, 

 their character, capacity, and manage- 

 ment; mill yards, their character and 

 management ; practical work in grad- 

 ing lumber; methods of handling and 



piling lumber ; methods of seasoning 

 or kiln drying; shipment of lumber; 

 markets ; business conduct of lumber- 

 ing operations, including logging 

 camps, sawmills, etc. ; fire protection, 

 and other phases of forest manage- 

 ment. 



The work in lumbering during this 

 term will be organized by Mr. Bryant, 

 and the topographic and other work in 

 forest management will be in charge 

 of Mr. H. H. Chapman. It is expected 

 that Mr. Henry Gannett, geographer 

 of the Geological Survey, will coop- 

 erate in instruction in topographic sur- 

 veying. 



Inasmuch as the progress of this 

 new course in lumbering is under the 

 immediate direction of a committee of 

 practical lumbermen, the instruction 

 will be of an unusually high character, 

 and eminently practical in character. 

 The best feature of the course lies in 

 the fact that it will afford instruction 

 along a line of practical usefulness 

 which has heretofore only been gained 

 by the graduate forester after a num- 

 ber of years of working experience. 



THE EASTERN FOREST RESERVES 



Resumption of the Campaign for the White 

 Mountain Southern Appalachian Bill 



IN Boston, on October 31, at the of- 

 fice of Messrs. E. H. Rollins and 

 Sons, an important meeting was held. 

 Its object was to resume the campaign 

 for the White Mountain-Southern Ap- 

 palachian Forest Reserve bill. 



The Society for the Protection of 

 New Hampshire Forests was repre- 

 sented by former Gov. Frank W. Rol- 

 lins of New Hampshire ; its president, 

 Montgomery Rollins, his brother, 

 member of the executive committee; 

 Philip W. Ayres, its forester, and Gen. 

 George T. Cruft, its treasurer, and 

 also president of the White Mountain 

 1 '.< tard of Trade. New Hampshire was 

 still further represented by Mr. Rob- 

 ert P. Bass, its newly appointed forest 



commissioner. The Massachusetts 

 Forestry Association was represented 

 by Mr. Edwin A. Start, its secretary. 

 For the White Mountain Club ap- 

 peared Messrs. Allen Chamberlain, its 

 president, Harvey M. Shepard, and 

 Prof. J. Rayner Edmands. The Amer- 

 ican Forestrv Association sent its sec- 

 retary, Mr. Thos. E. Will. 



The meeting was brief, but intense. 

 Mr. Shepard reported that the condi- 

 tion of the Presidential range, includ- 

 ing Mounts Jefferson, Adams, and 

 Madison, was most discouraging, and 

 that the northern slopes were already 

 practically denuded. Between Mounts 

 Adams and Madison there still re- 

 mains a beautiful valley, but the lum- 



