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Before entering the Yale Forest School, Spring was with 
J. V. Farwell & Company, wholesale drygoods dealers in Chi- 
cago, Ill. (1898-1901). During the summer of 1902 he was 
student assistant and in the summer of 1903 field assistant in 
the Bureau of Forestry, United States Department of Agricul- 
ture. From 1903 to 1905 he was professor of forestry at the 
University of Maine, Orono, Maine. For the next four years 
he was engaged in government work in the United States Forest 
Service. In 1906-07 he was engaged in codperative work with 
railroads and individual landowners in the Middle West and 
Louisiana, beginning as assistant forest inspector, and subse- 
quently being in charge of the work. In 1907 he became chief of 
the Office of Extension, visiting the Pacific coast and the Rocky 
Mountain states in connection with his duties of inspection and 
administration. On February 1, 1909, he began the private prac- 
tice of forestry at Washington, D. C. Later in the same year he 
was appointed state forester of Connecticut and forester of the 
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven, 
and while in these positions gave a series of lectures in the Yale 
Forest School. On October 1, 1912, he became professor of 
forestry in the New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell 
University. 
He is a Congregationalist. In politics he is “Republican so 
far as general political issues are concerned but does not neces- 
sarily vote that ticket.” He was a member of the Special Com- 
mission on Taxation of Woodland for Connecticut in 1911-12. 
He is a member and director of the American Forestry Asso- 
ciation, a member of the Eastern Foresters’ Association, the 
Connecticut Forestry Association and the Society of American 
Foresters. He is Secretary of the Class of 1903; Yale Forest 
School. 
He has published: Control and prevention of forest fires, Report of 
the forest commissioner, Maine, 1904; Second growth white pine in Maine, 
Report of the forest commissioner, Maine, 1906; The natural replacement 
of white pine on old fields in New England, Bull. 63, U. S. Forest Service, 
1905; Forest planting on coal lands in western Pennsylvania, Circ. 41, 
U. S. Forest Service, 1906; Report of the State Forester, 1910, Biennial 
Rep., Conn. Agric. Exp. Sta., Pt. XI, 1909-10; Forest fire manual, State 
Forester’s Office, 1912. 
