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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Seniors in Forestry at The Pennsylvania 

 State College have just returned from their 

 two weeks' lumbering trip to Saginaw and 

 Cadillac, Michigan. Professor R. R. Chaffee 

 was in charge of the party and it was one of 

 the most successful ever undertaken by the 

 Department of Forestry. The lumbermen in 

 Cadillac and the manufacturers in Saginaw 

 did much to make the trip highly profitable 

 and educational. Much credit is due Mr. J. 

 C. Knox, Secretary of the Michigan Hardwood 

 Association and the Cummer Diggins Com- 

 pany for the success of the trip. 



The Indiana State Board of Forestry desires 

 that all the schools of Indiana be given an 

 opportunity to study forestry, as this will lead 

 to a better conservation of our remaining forests 

 and to the establishment of new plantings on 

 non-agricultural lands by the succeeding 

 generations. 



The Board offers $40 in prizes as follows: 

 For essays on "Forestry in Indiana:" $12.50 

 is to be given for the best essay and $7.50 

 for the second best essay by pupils in the high 

 schools of the State. Also $12.50 is to be 

 given for the best essay and $7.50 for the 

 second best essay by pupils in the grades and 

 country schools. 



The essay must be written in ink on good 

 white paper and is not to exceed 2,000 words. 

 It must be mailed to Elijah A. Gladden, 

 Secretary of the State Board of Forestry. 

 Indianapolis, Ind., not later than May 1, 1915. 



The New York State Ranger School maintains 



a policy of teaching men to do things by letting 

 them do it as a part of their training. With 

 this purpose in view a fully equipped black- 

 smith shop has been installed at the School, 

 and in it the men are taught not only how to 

 make tools and handle iron and steel, but do a 

 sufficient amount of this kind of work to teach 

 them general handiness with the tools that are 

 found in the shop. To understand the reason 

 for this departure from the set curriculum of 

 forest schools, it must be understood that these 

 students are being trained for usefulness in 

 lumber camps, and logging operations, and 

 that the blacksmith shop is a feature of every 

 logging camp. 



At the recent meeting of the Board of 

 Governors of The National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Association in Chicago the following 

 resolution was unanimously adopted regarding 

 the resignation of Secretary J. E. Rhodes on 

 January 1, 1915: 



" Resolved that while it is with a unanimous 

 sentiment of regret that we have accepted the 

 resignation of Secretary Rhodes, we do so 

 because we realize the importance to the 

 lumber industry of the country of an efficient 

 organization of the Yellow Pine manufac- 

 turers, and knowing as we do, that no one 

 else is perhaps so well fitted to develop and 

 perfect such an organization as Mr. Rhodes, 

 we wish him the utmost success in his new 

 undertaking, and in behalf of The National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, stand 

 ready to promote in every way possible, the 

 work of the Southern Pine Association." 



BOOKS RECEIVED 



The Earth: Its Life and Death, by A. 



Berget, Professor at the Institut Oceano- 



graphique. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New 



York, $1.75.) 



Professor Berget describes the various 

 phenomena that go to make up the life of the 

 world and those earlier phenomena which have 

 marked its growth and evolution, after which, 

 by way of an epilogue to a story of intense fasci- 

 nation, he permits us to witness the death of 

 the globe, that final inevitability which the 

 earth, like the individual, faces, notwithstanding 

 its present abundant vitality. 



The titles of some of the chapters will in- 

 dicate the character of the volume: "The 

 Birth of the Earth;" "The Age of the Earth;" 

 "The Form, Magnitude, and Mass of the 

 Earth;" "The Movements of the Earth;" 

 "Rhythmic Movements of the Crust of the 

 Earth;" "The Force of Gravity;" "Sudden 

 Movements of the Crust;" "The Circulation 

 of the Earth, Marine and Atmospheric;" 

 "The Attack and the Defense of the Con- 

 tinents;" "Old Age and Death of the Earth." 



Vertical Farming, by Gilbert Ellis Bailey, 

 Professor of Geology, University Southern 



California. (Dupont Powder Co., Wilmington, 

 Del.) 



This book is quite as interesting as its title, 

 which indicates the nature of its contents. 

 Dr. Bailey believes the time has come for the 

 farmer to extend his study and effort to greater 

 depths in the soil than are reached by the usual 

 agricultural implements, and he sustains his 

 point of view very ably with arguments show- 

 ing the latent fertility of the subsoil and its 

 capacity for storing moisture, once it has been 

 disturbed, to a depth of five or six feet by the 

 use of explosives. Dr. Bailey also argues that 

 blasting the subsoil is but a logicial extension 

 of the theory of cultivation. Incidentally, 

 the book contains a very thorough and well 

 illustrated discussion of the origin of soils 

 which is well worth reading. The increase in 

 use of subsoil plows, deep tillage machinery 

 and the explosives for breaking up resistent 

 and impervious subsoil, indicates that many 

 progressive farmers will agree with Dr. Bailey's 

 opinions, and now that the price of all food 

 crops is so high, farmers in general are in- 

 terested in any means for increasing crop 

 productions. The book is distributed without 

 charge and is certainly well worth sending for. 



