DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



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The nursery work and restocking and improving . the wood lots and 

 wood lands of the college has been carried forward as planned over three 

 years ago. The nursery Avas invoiced in February and showed a total 

 of 82,381 seedling and transplanted trees, which at retail rates would be 

 worth 11,371.53 or at wholesale |822.92. About 21,000 trees from our 

 own nurseries were set out this past spring. About 9,000 surplus trees 

 were disposed of to outside parties. A trial was made at importing 

 stock from Europe through a New York house but the results show little 

 promise of gain from the practice. A permanent forestry exhibit of grow- 

 ing trees representing this department of the college has been made on 

 the state fair grounds at Detroit. 



This department is sadly in need of class rooms and a museum. The 

 large class in elementary forestry must always be met in some building 

 other than that in which the office of the department is located and where 

 the most useful illustrative specimens are stored. There is no place 

 * whatever to exhibit the' large collection of interesting and valuable 

 specimens of forest products we now have. The specimens are now 

 stored in five different buildings, too much subject to danger from fire 

 and of very little service for purposes of illustration. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. E. BOGUE, 

 Professor of Forestry. 



Agricultural College, June 30, 190G. 



REPORT OF THE CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



I submit herewith two schedules showing the amount of class and 

 laboratorv work done in this department for the two years 1904-5 and 

 1905-6 : 



