catch them all out every year. I catch out on an
average about eighteen to twenty every fall, so as to catch them before
they increase early in the spring. It seems as though they came from a
distance. I know one came into my garden this year. I didn't know there
was a gopher within a mile, and in one night he made four mounds in the
middle of my strawberry bed.

Mrs. Glenzke: Did you ever try poisoning them?

Mr. Ludlow: No, I never did. I am most successful in catching them in a
trap.

Mr. Brackett: Have you got any pocket-gophers that do not make mounds?
Do you understand that?

Mr. Ludlow: No, sir, I don't understand that, but when they came in and
killed the nineteen trees in the fall I hadn't seen a mound there. In
the spring I found where they were at work, and then I went after them.

City "Foresters" and Municipal Forests.

PROF. E. G. CHENEY, UNIVERSITY FARM, ST. PAUL.

Several cities in the state have appointed "city foresters." This is a
step in the right direction, if it is a precursor to the establishment
of municipal forests for these men to manage; otherwise it is a misnomer
and can only be misleading to the people. The city governments, in an
endeavor to create a complete park organization, have so far adopted
this title from European practice without much regard to the duties of
the officer. A forester handles trees in mass formations,--sometimes for
timber production, sometimes for the protection of water-sheds,
sometimes for aesthetic effect or park purposes,--but always in the
mass.

The handling of shade trees such as we have in our city streets is the
work of an arborist. The planting of large ornamental trees, the pruning
of the individual for formal effect, the filling of cavities and the
bracing of weak parts, are no part of a forester's work; nor do they
necessarily fall within his knowledge. An expert should undoubtedly be
in charge of the work, but an expert arborist, not a forester. The title
is, therefore, when combined with the present duties, unfortunate,
because it gives the people--still struggling with a hazy conception of
forestry--a wrong idea of the true character of the real forester's
work.

Two very obvious ways of avoiding the difficulty present
themselves,--either to change the title or to change the duties. The
former would probably be much easier of accomplishment, but the latter
is without question the course which the city ought to pursue. Since the
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