MANY CUT WOOD IN HOLIDAYS

During the Christmas holidays two groups of University students aided the Massachusetts Forestry Association in relieving the fuel situation by cutting wood at Sandwich and at Waltham. On the day before Christmas 30 men started work on the 25-acre wood lot at Cedar Hill Farm, Waltham, owned by Miss Cornelia Warren. On the holiday 12 students worked, and on the following day 50 continued the wood-cutting. Throughout the remainder of the vacation large numbers worked daily, finally succeeding in clearing the plot of its fuel supply.

At the Warren estate, State Forester R. M. Gibbs was in charge of the group, advising where the wood should be cut and conducting the work so as to preserve the young trees and eliminate those that were weak and old. Approximately 25 cords of wood were cut and piled each day by the men, each of whom received $2.50 a day.

Eleven men went to Sandwich and lived there during their whole period of work. Half of them began wood-chopping on December 24 and the rest took up the job on the day after Christmas. This section paid for its own food and transportation, and were paid at the rate of $2.50 for each cord of wood. The lumber was all oak and will be burned into charcoal. Between 40 and 50 cords were secured in all, the students taking in an average of about six a day. The eleven men who stayed at Sandwich were: P. C. Francis '20, N. L. Harris '19, R. W. Hersey '20, G. Lee '19, G. C. Noyes '20, R. C. Partridge '20, H. Patch, E. P. Perkins '18, D. Pratt, Yale 1920, and J. L. Walsh 2G.