The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-27

Charles s. Judd writes
of Forestry
Studies.
Yale Forest School,
Milford, Pa, Aug. %, 1905.

MIiIord, IA, Aug. 70, 19Uo-
Editor Advertiser: 1t has occurred
to me that perhaps short description
of the work participated in by Homo
lulu boy at the summer session of the
Yale Forest School may be Of interest
to the readers of your paper.
One entering the school must begin
the two-years course with the summer
work, which begins July 5th and lasts
ten weeks. This work is carried on at
Milford, Pike Co, Pennsylvania, which
is on the Delaware river about thirty
miles north of the famous Water Gap
The camp is situated on high dry
ground about eight hundred feet above
sea level, location which is exceed
ingly healthful and which commands
a beautiful view of the Delaware River
valley near at hand and the even sky
line of the Appalachian folds, broken
here and there by steep wooded val
leys. In grove of young oak and
hickory a double row of roomy tents,
each equipped with wooden floor, cot,
table, washstand and crockery and
chairs accommodates the thirty stu
dents of the Junior Class and the
twenty students in the Summer School
of Forestry which offers only a general
course and which is operated in CON
junction with the regular work of the
school,
The school buildings consist of junior
hall and the club house, both frame
buildings containing single large lee !
ture rooms and CHEEKY freplaces. !
These buildings were erected by Mr.. |
James w. Pinchot on his country es-
tate and are for the work of the
Junior Class in the courses in survey
ing and forest mensuration and are
also used as gathering places for even
ng study and recreation. At the camp
here is also a large open building
which serves as mess hail. In addition
% these Mr.. Pinchot is now having
rected in Milford, Forest Hall, large
tone building which will contain a
pacious lecture hall, which will be
sed in spring by the Senior Glass and
n the summer for all lectures, which
re open to the public. This benevo-
ent gentleman has also given for the
Sc of the Summer School, Stone Cot
age, containing a lecture hall, botani-
al laboratory, small library and
L,r ole !
ract of about two hundred acres for
Experimental work
A typical boy begins at a. m. with
reakfast. At s clock a lecture by
he director of the school is given on
,me subject in forest mensuration,
1ch as the use of American log rules,
ne use of height measures and dem
rometers, the construction and use
volume tables or the methods of de-
ermining the contents of whole stands.
hree lectures may be given in day (
it'll two hours off at noon for dinner
r else lunch is taken into the woods
nd the entire day spent in taking
ample plots, making valuation sur
eys or cutting down trees and taking 7
em analysis. These trees are not our $
amiiiar algaroba, monkey-pod, kukui, t
koa, but instead the sticky pitch d
inc, the chestnut and the oaks. b
Half of the week is spent in this c
amer and the remainder is occupied ?
Y work in surveying under supervision t
instructors from the Sheffield Scien- n
fie School of Yale University. Small s
Iuads are sent out on survey of the P
.gion about camp to establish transit a
nes, to find elevations of bench marks,
locate details with the plane table, {
to run contour lines. The work ex- .
nds even into the night when obser- o
ltion must be made on the Pole Star a
find the true north. l;
At O'Clock in the afternoon the z
ork of the day is over and at once F
crowd of healthy boys makes its way Ct
ross an open field to the gorge of the
lwkill river where a refreshing bath b