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has an opportunity to elect several hours' work. Forest management is 

 continued throughout the year. During the first semester the subjects of work- 

 ing plans and forest regulation consume the major portion of the time. The 

 second terms' work comprises forest finance, theoretical and applied. Special 

 attention is given to financial adjustments for damages to forest property 

 especially those caused by fire. The course in Forest Administration gives the 

 student instruction in the administrative side of national forest work. The 

 work of protecting forest property is one of the most vital questions confront- 

 ing the foresters today. The subjects of forest fires, the consti-uction of fire 

 lines, and equipment for fighting fires, are taken up in lecture and reference 

 work in the course in Forest Protection. The subject also embraces a study of 

 the destructive forest insects and means of their control. The work in 

 Mycology and Forest Pathology considers, both in the clas.s room and labora- 

 tory, a study of the more important disea.ses of forest trees. 



' In addition to the technical training in forestry subjects, the Forestry 

 Course gives the students a good foundation work in allied branches, including 

 the following : Two courses in General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Morph- 

 ology, Vegetable Physiology, Systematic Phanerogams, Plant Embryogeny, 

 Plant Breeding, Pomology, Landscape Gardening, Plant Propagation, Soil 

 Physics, Soil Fertility, Soil Surveying and Mapping, General Entomology, Eco- 

 nomic Entomology, General Geology, Physics, and three courses in Engineering. 

 Other subjects included in the course are Mathematics, Veterinary, two courses 

 in Horticulture, two in Farm Crops, two in Animal Husbandry, Bacteriology, 

 Dairying, three courses in English, Economics, History of Political Parties, 

 Journalism and Public Speaking. 



During the senior year, candidates for the degee of Bachelor of Science in 

 Forestry must present a thesis. This must represent some original line of 

 investigation which has been approved by the department. 



The terms of instruction are so arranged as to permit the students in 

 forestry to spend the three summer months in pi'actical work. In securing 

 temporary employment on national forests or with lumber concerns the stu- 

 dents are able to get experience which will prove a valuable asset for future 

 work and subsequent instruction and at the same time allow them to receive 

 as wages sufficient money for defraying the necessary expenses incident to the 

 trip. At the conclusion of the four years' course the students have from six 

 months to one year's practical work behind them. It is the desire of the 

 department to make good in the forestry work the motto of the school, "Science 

 With Practice." 



