56 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY. 



To the President: 



Sir — The forestry department has made marked progress during the 

 vear. The instruction was reinforced by the aid of Mr. C A. McCue of 

 the horticultural department who took charge of the class in the prin- 

 ciples of forestry during the winter term and by Mr. Thomas Gunson 

 also of the same department, under whose guidance the work in forest 

 tree propagation was done. This arrangement for instruction is pos- 

 sible only through the courtesy of the horticultural department and 

 the kindness of the persons doing the work. We are in need of the 

 full time of an instructor in this department to meet the rapidly grow- 

 ing schedule of work in this department. Some provision must be made 

 at the beginning of the fall term, for we have not been able to make 

 arrangements whereby classes in the different years of the course can 

 come at different hours. Of class work there are twenty-seven hours 

 per week in the fall terra beside the ever increasing correspondence 

 and attention that must be given to outside work connected with the 

 department. In the winter term there are twenty-three hours per week 

 beside the regular work of the office, extra lectures to short course 

 students and lectures before farmer's institutes. In the spring term 

 there are thirty hours per week of class room and field work. This is 

 the most busy season of the year because we are then seeding and plant- 

 ing extensively. T have not been able to give any of the work the per- 

 sonal attention it should have because there has been so much to do 

 and several things need attention at the same time. It has been left 

 too much to the judgment and discretion of untrained and unskilled 

 workmen who do the work to the best of their ability, but the results 

 are too frequently unsatisfactory. There must be regular help in this 

 department if the work is to be carried on successfully and in a satis- 

 factory manner. 



The class rolls show the number of students taking courses in this 

 department the past year was as follows: 



Forestry economics 1 



Forest mensuration 1 



Forest i)rotection and regulation 1 



Diseases of forest trees 1 



Investigation 1 



Forest botany (three terms) 23 



Laboratory work in forest botany 23 



Principles of forestry (two terms) 11 



Silviculture '^ 



Laboratory and field work in silviculture 7 



Forest tree propagation 8 



Elements of forestry 60 



Field and laboratory work in elements of forestry 60 



Short course students taking forestry 21 



Total 225 



Number of different students 01 



