128 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION March 



Harvard The Senior class in many study forestry who do not plan 



r w H Forestry at Harvard to make it their special occupation. 



University spent the This implies that the fundamental im- 



month of January in a study of lum- portance of this factor in our indus- 



bering in the Maine woods, under trial life is coming to be realized. 

 Prof. Austin Gary. Spending a few 



days about Bangor in manufacturing An Academy Not only in collegiate 



plants, they examined the logging Teaches institutions is there 



work of the Great Northern Paper room for teaching of 



Company and others in the region of forestry ; but as technological colleges 



Moosehead Lake, and the west branch have their counterparts in industrial 



of the Penobscot; and then, taking high schools, so with forest schools. 



the Canadian Pacific Railway to Lake Powder Point School, Duxbury, 



Megantic, worked their way down Mass., has just established a prepara- 



through the Androscoggin Valley to tory course in forestry. Its announce- 



Rumford Falls. Professor Gary has ment will be found in the advertising 



long been familiar with this region, pages of this magazine. 

 and going under his guidance the stu- 



dents get not only a clear idea of the Abrasive \mong the less promi- 



method and costs of lumbering and Materials in nent natural resources of 



the changes gradually being intro- ' the country are abrasive 



duced in the interest of better fores- materials. < >ver $2,000,000 worth of 



try, but an insight into the controlling abrasives were produced last year, 



business and financial conditions as two-thirds of them being natural min- 



well. erals. The list includes the following: 



Mr. J. J. Dearborn, of the class of Oilstones and scythestones ; grind- 



1907, on February ist begins an en- stones and pulpstones; buhrstones, 



gagement with the Diamond Match and millstones; pumice; infusorial 



Company. His work will have to do earth and tripoli ; crystalline quartz; 



with the company's land holdings in garnet, corundum and emery; car- 



Massachusetts. borundum ; crushed steel ; and alun- 



dum (artificial corundum). 

 Kansas It is expected that be- 



cSne C ee tUral fore long there wil1 be A New The American Forest 



a forestry course in the Forestry Preservation Society has 



Kansas Agricultural College. There recently been organized. 



are already twenty students enrolled w ith the Secretary's office at Corfu, 



in forestry studies; one class in den- \ y. 



drology, one in silviculture, and one in They intend to incorporate under 



general forestry. Professor Eastman the laws of New York as an educa- 



is planning to organize a tree plant- tional association; to conduct aggres- 



ing club in the college in the spring s i ve propaganda for a large member- 



term. The interest in these subjects ship, including a junior class for 



among the students is increasing. school children ; to encourage the or- 



ganization of tree-planting clubs in 



Iowa There are forty-eight every town and hamlet; and to at- 



CoTkee students enrolled in the tempt to secure whatever legislation 



forestry course at Iowa their advisory board deems advisable 



Agricultural College. This number { n the various States and at Wash- 



includes senior and junior men in ington. 

 horticulture and forestry, and one 



class of civil engineers in technology. West Virginia On February nth this of- 



Several of the students are planning ^o fice was notified of the 



to make forestry their profession. It organization of a West 



is interesting, however, to see how Virginia Forestry Association, with A. 



