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all the company's waste lands will be logging inspection ever tried here, and 



planted. this season is trying the experiment 



In 1908 the company started the first of marking trees and lopping tops under 

 efficient fire-protection system and in competent supervision. "Scientific Man- 

 1909 persuaded the licensees to unite agement" has been in use for years, and 

 for the protection of the timber lands the cost-keeping system of this depart- 

 along the right-of-w T ay of the new Xa- ment is a model. 



tional Transcontinental Railway. This The employees have also been given 



was the beginning of the Protective As- an opportunity to subscribe to the stock 



sociation mentioned previously. of the company and have taken advan- 



In addition to engaging a forester, tage of it, and each one feels that he 



the company put a forest engineer, Mr. has a deep personal interest in its 



M. C. Small, in charge of its logging success. 



operations, and under his efficient man- The influence of all this work has 



agement an enormous amount of waste been felt in the surrounding towns and 



in the woods has been eliminated in the country, and other companies have been 



way of high stumps and large tops, encouraged by it to make a beginning 



burnt timber has been utilized, young a i ono - the same lines 

 growth better protected, better condi- T e work of this one with a bi 



tions for sealers and more careful id the infection of which has d 



methods of measurement. Roads have n i u t, 



been opened up, telephone lines have [ all whom he has associated with 



been built, gasoline launches placed on him ' h f borne ."jost abundant fruit, 



the large rivers and comfortable quar- not onl y m social betterment, better 



ters built for the men in charge of llvm g conditions and higher standards, 



depots and for the inspectors and but in greater financial prosperity for 



sealers. The logging department has the company, which has made a record 



instituted the first system of competent in earning capacity and values. 



MR. JOHN E. RHODES' NEW POSITION 



John E. Rhodes, of Tacoma, Wash., a member of the editorial advisory board 0/i 

 American Forestry, urill, in January, become the manager-secretary of the National Lumber 

 Mnunfacturers Association with headquarters at Chicago. It was recently decided by the 

 Association to combine these two offices and Mr. Rhodes succeeds Manager Leonard 

 Branson and Secretary George K. Smith, who have so ably filled the positions for some* 

 time. Mr. Rhodes, rvho is thoroughly conversant with the lumber business, having been 

 in it for a number of years, is at the present time visiting the chief lumber trade centers* 

 of the country, ascertaining the sentiment of the lumbermen and the nature of the work 

 which they desire the association to do in their interests. Having thorouglily sounded them 

 he will be in a position, when lie takes charge of the work, to develop a comprehensive 

 campaign, which with his great energy to direct it will certainly be carried to a successful 

 conclusion. 



TEACHING FORESTRY TO CHILDREN 



The New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, designated and estab- 

 lished by the Legislature for educational work in Forestry in New York, has sent a letter 

 to tltc principals of all the high and preparatory schools of the State offering to give 

 illustrated lectures and demonstrations upon Forestry before the schools so tliat every child 

 in the State may understand what Forestry is and may learn to love the trees and forests. 



CLEVERLY ADVERTISING BIRCH 



The Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers Association is sending out a 

 very attractive book on the value, uses and beauty of birch together with a sample of birch 

 wood, the two making a decidedly good advertising feature. The book comprises sixteen 

 pages, handsomely illustrated, and showing plans, exteriors and interiors of buildings in 

 which birch is used as well as a number of styles of birch finish. 



