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VOL. XXVII. NO. 6 
AUGUST, 1917 
EDITORIAL 
PRACTICAL FORESTRY SCHOOL. 
The new $250,000 building just occu- 
pied by the students and faculty of 
The New York State College of For- 
estry at Syracuse University emphasizes 
the practical and successful work ac- 
complished by the institution. It is said 
to be the most completely equipped and 
the largest building given over entirely 
to forestry instruction in the United 
States. 
During the present summer the ex- 
tension work of the College of For- 
estry will be developed along the line 
of woodlot improvement demonstra- 
tions. Calls for advice along this line 
have become so frequent that trips will 
prol^ably be arranged in the fall to 
take in a number of woodlots in given 
localities. A trained forester from the 
college will demonstrate methods of 
improving the stand by taking out un- 
profitable trees and planting rapid 
growing species in large openings, and 
in simple methods of estimating the 
volume and value of woodlot stands. 
During the week of May 21st an ex- 
hibit of Landscape Architecture draw- 
ings was arranged at the college. The 
exhibit was managed by the Landscape 
Engineering Department and contained, 
besides the work of the students in 
landscape engineering, examples of 
work from the Department of Land- 
scape Architecture at Harvard Uni- 
versity and The Roland Park Com- 
pany, Baltimore, Md., the Park Depart- 
ment of New York City, and a large 
number of drawings from landscape 
architects throughout the coiuntry in 
private practice. A special feature of 
the exhibit was a collection of proposed 
projects from Clifford E. Howard, the 
expert retained by the Syracuse City 
Planning Commission. The attendance 
at the exhibit showed a growing inter- 
est in better landscape work. 
Six men from this institution are en- 
gaged in national forest work. One of 
these is working in a government tree 
nursery in Colorado. Another is in 
tree disease control work on the Cali- 
fornia National Forest. Two of the 
boys are serving as forest fire lookouts 
in Montana and Arizona, and another 
is cruising timber in the Appalachians. 
A certain amount of engineering train- 
ing is necessary to success in the prac- 
tice of forestry, and two students of the 
college are putting in their summer in 
engineering work. One is with the In- 
terstate Commerce Commission, work- 
ing on railroad valuation, and another 
is in civil engineering work with a gas 
company in Pennsylvania. The timber 
preservation industry, which has grown 
to immense proportions within the last 
few years, invariably calls for forestry 
students each year, and one of the 
Syracuse boys is engaged this summer 
at a timber treating plant in Illinois. 
The paper industry in northern New 
York has taken another student, and 
still another is on his way to Canada, 
where he will spend the summer on a 
forest survey. While the national for- 
ests of the country have been the prin- 
cipal field for students and for trained 
foresters in government work, the In- 
dian service also employs a large num- 
ber of men to handle the timberland 
which is in their care. Two of the 
College of Forestry juniors are in Wis- 
consin this year assisting in lumbering 
operations on an Indian rerservation. 
The New York State Ranger School, 
maintained by the college at Wanakena, 
opened its fifth year this season with 
students from six different states of 
the Lhiion and from Canada. This 
school, located in the heart of the Adi- 
rondacks, fills a very definite need in 
the forestry field by supplying trained 
men for such positions as forest guards, 
rangers, estate managers and woods- 
men for lumber concerns. In spite of 
the alluring openings in other lines of 
work, earnest and ambitious young fel- 
lows have been attracted to this short 
course in forestry given in this school 
in the woods. From the very first day 
the boys are given an opportunity to 
become acquainted with real woods life 
and to fit themselves for the strenuous 
work ahead. 
The college has received requests 
from many schools in the state for as- 
sistance in the making of Arbor Day a 
real forest day. Last spring the college 
assisted 22 schools in the state in the 
planting of 33,000 trees. The college 
asked the schools to purchase from 
1,000 to 5,000 trees, which can be se- 
cured from the State Conservation 
Commission or the college at cost, and 
the college will then send a forester to 
supervise the planting at no expense 
to the school. 
That the profession of forestry is 
taking its place among the older pro- 
fessions in the country is being evi- 
denced constantly by work of this char- 
acter and by the increasing activities 
of foresters in developing great forest 
areas in the country. 
MUNICIPAL CEMETERIES. 
“Editor Park and Cemetery: Can 
you tell me the reasons why a city 
should not engage in the cemetery busi- 
ness. I know that most city cemeteries 
are failures, but don't know the rea- 
sons.” — J. J. 
It is, perhaps, a trifle too strong a 
statement to make that most city cem- 
eteries are failures. Where politics has 
not overreached an efficiency and hon- 
esty, many municipally-owned ceme- 
teries have been successfully managed. 
It is not so much the form of manage- 
ment under which a cemetery is oper- 
ated that makes for success or failure 
as it is the standards of management 
that are maintained. There is no reason 
why a city cemetery should not be well 
managed, except for the same reason 
that most city institutions are subject to 
politics, and are, therefore, misman- 
aged at least occasionally. The dangers 
of political management with all the 
changes of authority and occasional op- 
portunities for graft that occur in all 
city enterprises would be very disas- 
trous, indeed, to a cemetery where op- 
erations, botli physical and financial, 
must be carried on over long terms of 
years to secure the proper results. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Students of the State Ranger School 
at Wanakena, N. Y., have been prepar- 
ing volume tables, showing the rate of 
growth of trees native in the Adiron- 
dacks. Very few people interested in 
the woods realize the large amount of 
work necessary in preparing reliable 
tables for determining the solid con- 
tents of standing trees. The students at 
the State Ranger School at Wanakena 
have just completed two of these studies 
for Hemlock and Red Spruce. Nearly 
2,300 trees of each species have been 
measured separately. These tables, 
which show the volume of trees of the 
diameters of these particular species, 
will be sent out to timber producers, 
lumbermen and others in northern New 
York, who have to do with the im- 
provement of the forest. 
