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AMERICAN FORESTEY 



also for sugar pine, and of $1 per thousand 

 feet for all other species, is specified in the 

 advertisement. The interest which has been 

 shown by lumbermen in this sale leads the 

 Forest officers to believe that one or more 

 bids will undoubtedly be received. The usual 

 conditions of cutting National Forest timber, 

 to insure a renewal of the forest and close 

 utilization of what is cut, will be incorporated 

 in the contract of sale. 



English Forestry Association 

 The English Forestry Association has re- 



cently been formed, with the following offi- 

 cers : President, Lord Clinton ; Honorary 

 Secretary, Mr. Duchesne; Council, the Earl 

 of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Chichester, Lord 

 Hastings, Mr. G. L. Courthope, M. P., 

 Mr. Chas. Bathurst, M.P., Colonel E. J. 

 Mostyn, Mr. S. H. Cowper-Coles, Mr. F. G. 

 Burroughes, Mr. Arthur Arnold, Mr. W. 

 Anker Simmons, and Mr. Gerard H. Morgan. 

 The objects of the association are to en- 

 courage the demand for English timber and 

 generally to be of service to English pro- 

 ducers of timber. 



EDUCATIONAL 



Better Forest Schools 

 Much progress has been made _ recently in 

 the movement aiming to standardize forestry 

 schools in this country. Chief Forester 

 Graves says of this work: "At present'there 

 are some 20 institutions purporting to give 

 high grade training in forestry, but con- 

 siderable difference still exists in the amount 

 of training and in methods of instruction. 

 At the conference here several days ago 

 reports from 16 of the most important schools 

 in the United States on standardization were 

 discussed at length and a report was pre- 

 sented from a special committee appointed 

 to see what could be done along this line. 

 The committee was retained to pursue its 

 work. 



"There is need also of properly-equipped 

 ranger schools. While high grade training 

 is being well taken care of, there is a lack 

 of schools of the lower grade for the train- 

 ing of rangers for work in the public service 

 and in private forests." 



Site for Forestry School 

 Dr. C. A. Schenck, director of the Bilt- 

 more forestry school, which is in winter 

 quarters in Germany, has requested the New 

 York State conservation commission to aid 

 him in procuring suitable quarters for the 

 school in the Adirondacks. The Biltmore 

 students will return to the United States 

 early in April, and it is desired to obtain 

 for them quarters near the large New York 

 State nurseries in Lake Clear Junction, 

 where they may have instruction and prac- 

 tical observations in tree nursery work. 



Biltmore Students 



The Bulletin of Biltmore students' work 

 says : "The end of December finds us still 

 in Darmstadt, deeply engrossed in the studies 

 of the German Forests. Dr. Schenck has 

 completed his course in sylviculture, and has 

 headed us into the lines, the angles, and the 

 twists of surveying. Sylviculture, as taught 

 by Dr. Schenck, and in the surroundin- con- 

 ditions, has proven a most interesting and 

 beneficial study. The practical experience 

 in making seed-beds, in transplanting and 

 out-planting, and the intimacy with German 

 forestry which we are obtaining through our 

 field work, have been most valuable auxi- 

 liaries to the course of lectures. Throueh 



centuries of experiments with many failures 

 and few successes, German sylviculture has 

 attained the highest degree of perfection. 

 Here we should be able to obtain the very 

 best training in the subject. And though 

 the United States cannot successfully practise 

 for financial reasons, the advanced German 

 type of sylvics for some time to come, we 

 can profit by their experience. American 

 conditions are continually contrasted and 

 compared with those of Europe bv the 

 faculty, and methods and solutions are sug- 

 gested; for we all aopreciate the need of 

 practical foresters with practical methods in 

 America." 



Gifts to Yale Forestry School 

 The Springfield Republican says : "It is an- 

 nounced that Andrew Carnegie some time 

 ago promised a gift of $100,000 to the en- 

 dowment fund of the Yale forestry school 

 as soon as its endowment funds reached 

 $500,000, and only $40,000 is now needed to 

 complete that sum. Another promise of 

 $100,000 to erect a memorial building for 

 forestry purposes has been made by a person 

 whose name is not made public, and it is 

 expected that that fund soon will be paid 

 in. The future plans of the school include 

 the purchase, if the funds can be raised, of 

 a school forest with an area of several thou- 

 sand acres, to be used for practical forestry 

 work and to be situated as near as possible 

 to the school." 



Forest Service to Aid 



Another example of that educational co- 

 operation between State and college that is 

 already so common in the West and is 

 rapidly becoming more common in the East, 

 is furnished by the University of Washington 

 which announces a short course in forestry 

 started on January 2. The course is de- 

 signed especially for forest rangers and 

 guards, for timber owners and for all persons 

 who want some knowledge of forestry and 

 who have only a limited time to give to the 

 subject. The National Government has set 

 its seal of approval on the scheme by promis- 

 ing the lecture services of some of its ex- 

 perts. Instruction will be practical in every 

 sense of the _ word and an abundance of 

 field work will necessarily be one of the 

 features. 



