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Show OGDEN'S DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. One of the local foresters pays the following tribute to Prof. T7---v r-ves. who is payiner his first visit to Otjden since his appointment to the position of Chief Forester of be Forest Service, i.-r. craves has been making an extended tour of the West, to acquaint ac-quaint himself personally with existing conditions: For various reasons this is a most interesting trip for the Chief Forester. As director, for more than ten years, of the Yale Forest School in America, he has had an exceptional opportunity to keep abreast of the latest developments in forestry, and, even before his selection to his present position, he was generally regarded as the most expert scientific forester in this country. Many of the best foresters in the government and state services and in private employment em-ployment have been trained by him. And so, after so close application applica-tion to his educational work, it is with keen relish that that Professor Pro-fessor Graves embraces the opportunity to revisit more extensively the fields of his earlier investigations. For, although each year has found Mr. Graves in the field, it has been to proceed directly to a particular locality, as perhaps, the San Bernardino mountains of Southern California, and review an exhaustive study made by one of his men on the effect of the forest on stream flow and run off. A member of the local office speaks of Professor Graves' thoroughness in his professional work. He and Overton W. Price were the first to become associated with Gifford Pinchot in forest work in this country, and it was he who assisted Mr. Pinchot in preparing pre-paring the first two studies of commercial trees, "The White Pine" and "The Adirondack Spruce," these monograms telling of their distribution, habits and rate of growth, character of wood, and the merchantable content of trees of different sizes, so that woodland owners could tell how much saw-timber was available on a given area, and to what extent cuttings could be made with expectation of cutting similar crops in the future at intervals of twenty or forty years. Graves immediately saw the need of thorough forest training and so studied abroad. After his return he was sent to investigate among other regions, the Black Hills of South Dakota. He there found the usual conditions regarding treatment of a forest for its future welfare much complicated by the presence and depredations of insect pests. He has since spoken of how deeply he was then impressed with the need, on the part of a forester, of the broadest training, on entomology and chemistry as well as in silviculture, lumbering, and surveying with their subsidiary studies. This is the sort of training he sought to give at Yale. Mr. Graves is very practical. The two most popular bulletins ! prepared by him are: "The Woodsman's Handbook," which compares com-pares and discusses the log rules in commercial use in this country and gives facts and tables by which the timberland owner can make forest estimates of his own; and "The Woodlot," a discussion of the average small timber holding in southern New England (applicable, (ap-plicable, however, in principle elsewhere) and the trees which compose com-pose it, their characteristics and value. The importance of thinnings, one of the simplest, yet most effective, of sihicultural measures, is emphasized, and by means of diagrams, the right way to make them is made clear. 'Forest Mensuration," a college text book by Graves, is the most elaborate book on the subject that has appeared in this country, and of this Dr. B. E. Fcrnow, the first chief of the Division of Forestry, For-estry, and a very capable though severe cntic, has said: "It is probably the only enduring contribution of American origin to the literature of forestry." This tribute to the thoroughness of the author is nnpreciated when it is remembered that many of the most exact and complete Government publications on forest subjects were prepared by, or under, the direction of Doctor Fcrnow. |