FORESTRY. 



EDITED BY DR B. E. FERNOW, 



Director of the New York School of Forestry, Cornell University, assisted by Dr. John C. Gifford of the sam< 



insti.ution. 



FORESTRY AT THE PAN-AMERICAN 

 EXPOSITION. 



The Jury of Awards on Forestry and 

 Forest Products, headed by Dr. Fernow 

 as chairman, in its report to the Directors 

 of the Pan-American Exposition, ex- 

 pressed its regret at the scarcity of ex- 

 hibits which show the application of the 

 art of forestry in this country. Only 3 

 such exhibits were to be found. Of these, 

 of most interest because coming from a 

 private lumber concern, the exhibit of the 

 Berlin Mills Co.,of Berlin, N. H., attracted 

 most attention. This firm has for some 

 time employed a forester to direct the sys- 

 tematic utilization of their extensive spruce 

 forests, some 300,000 acres. The most 

 conspicuous feature was a set of relief 

 models of the townships to be lumbered, 

 the firm finding that such maps showing 

 the elevations, valleys, runs, etc., are a 

 most desirable basis for intelligent forest 

 management. The second exhibit of this 

 kind is that of the New York State Col- 

 lege of Forestry. A relief model on a large 

 scale exhibits the Demonstration Forest 

 of 30,000 acres which the college manages 

 in the Adirondacks. The various characters 

 of the land and timber, the logged and 

 planted areas, now 165 acres, are denoted 

 by various coloring. Photographs show 

 the operations of logging, planting, nursery 

 work, etc. The plan of instruction, the 

 publications of the college and photographs 

 of the first 2 classes and of the first grad- 

 uate of the college denote the activity of 

 the first professional forestry school of 

 this country. The third exhibit, falling 

 more or less into this class, is that of the 

 U. S. Bureau of Forestry, which consists 

 mainly of transparencies, illustrating the 

 effects of fire and of lumbering on forest 

 reproduction, the relation of forests to 

 water supplies, besides typical trees and 

 forest scenes. The most interesting fea- 

 ture are 2 maps and charts showing the 

 history and condition of the federal forest 

 reserves and the location of areas, for 

 which working plans were asked for. If 

 half the area were really under skillful 

 management with a view to proper practice 

 of silviculture the outlook would be most 

 hopeful. 



The Forestry building, though a neat 

 structure, was evidently too small even for 

 the few exhibits that were placed in it, so 

 that a satisfactory display could be made 

 by none. The State of Oregon was the 

 most amply and satisfactorily represented, 

 with monster sections, planks, etc., and a 



complete exhibit of its forest resources 

 with ample information, received a gold 

 medal. Wisconsin and Louisiana also 

 made creditable exhibits of their woods, 

 and the State of New York was repre- 

 sented with a relief model of the Adiron- 

 dacks, showing the outlines of the pro- 

 posed forest reserve. From Canada only 

 the Province of Ontario was represented, 

 the Glasgow Exposition having diverted 

 the interest of other Provinces. 



The various State buildings of the 

 South and Central American States, as 

 well as the Agricultural building, har- 

 bored the wood exhibits of those States, 

 which in some instances were more fully 

 represented than ever before. Notably 

 Chili and Honduras were for the first 

 time present, and with creditable displays 

 of the great variety of beautiful hard 

 woods which characterize the tropic forest. 

 Two most interesting displays of the ex- 

 tension in the use of forest products were 

 awarded gold medals, namely one to the 

 Pacific Pine Needle Fiber Co., which util- 

 izes pine needles for any number of 

 articles, from mattress material and knit 

 goods to toilet articles, medicinal deriva- 

 tives and candies ; and the other to the 

 Manhattan Spirit Co., for the production 

 on* a commercial scale of wood alcohol 

 free from acetone, which widens its field 

 of application. As the use of the cord- 

 wood is one of the problems which is of 

 greatest importance to the development 

 of silviculture, this discovery of a new 

 field for its more extended use is of great- 

 est importance. On the whole, the for- 

 estry exhibits did not show mtu'i progress 

 in method over those of the World's Fair. 



LECTURES ON FORESTRY. 



Prof. B. E. Fernow, Director of the New 

 York State College of Forestry, Cornell 

 University, and formerly chief of the U. 

 S. Division of Forestry, gave a course of 

 12 semi-popular lectures in June and 

 July before classes of the University of 

 Chicago on Forestry in its botanical, prac- 

 tical and political aspects, designed espe- 

 cially for students of botany and of polit- 

 ical economy. The lectures were fully il- 

 lustrated by lantern slides and otherwise 

 and treated of the following topics: . 



What is Forestry? (Economic signifi- 

 cance of forest resources ami need for 

 their management ; definition of terms and 

 historic development of the art of .for- 

 estry.) 



The Forest as a Resource. (Commer- 



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