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ing the same after handing in estimates, 

 carefully going over the plot and measur- 

 ing each tree on the plot and calculating 

 the volume by different methods. As soon 

 as this work was completed choppers felled 

 the timber on the area and timber was 

 measured and checks made on estimates 

 and calculations. Practice was also given 

 in cruising forty acre plots and 160 acre 

 plots by the different methods. Much prac- 

 tice was also obtained in locating witness 

 trees and boundary lines. Students had the 

 opportunity to appreciate the extent of an 

 area of 640 acres of heavily timbered stand. 

 The camp was located on the shores of 

 Sand Lake, adjacent to the estate logging 

 camp No. IS which is operating In white 

 pine with 110 men and 15 teams. 



The students were housed in tents about 

 five minutes' walk from the cook shanty 

 of the main logging camp. There were ten 

 tents 10x12, set at an angle of fifty degrees 

 with the main assembly tent which was 

 231/0 by 41 feet. All of these tents were 

 equipped with a board floor. The individ- 

 ual tents, housing two students, were all 

 equipped with board floors, two cots, study 

 table, two chairs, lantern and lamp. Oil 

 and matches were furnished. A yard man 

 was employed to sweep the tents, fill the 

 lanterns and lamps, fill the water pails each 

 day, pick up about the camp and accumu- 

 late wood for the evening's bon-fire. 



The hours kept by the students were the 

 same as those kept by the logging crew, 

 beginning with breakfast at five o'clock. 

 Boats, guns and ammunition were fur- 

 nished for the use of the students. A tar- 

 get range was laid out and records kept 

 of the practice. 



Dr. R. C. Allen, State Geologist of Mich- 

 igan, was in camp and gave a series of lec- 

 tures on topographical maps and mapping. 

 Mr. R. S. Kellogg gave a series of lectures 

 on general forestry topics. 



The pictures reproduced on other pages 

 give a good idea of the life of the school 

 in camp. 



University ol Vermont 



The University of Vermont is to be 

 added to the list of those institutions giving 

 instruction in forestry. A course in for- 

 estry is one of the regular courses in the 

 Department of Agriculture. The plan com- 

 mon to many schools of agriculture of mak- 

 ing the work of all courses identical 

 the first two years is followed here. In 

 last two years these courses are diftti- 

 entiated and the specialized subjects taken 

 up. In the two years in which time is 



given to forestry studies it is intended to 

 train students for Vermont forestry in 

 connection with and not apart from agri- 

 culture and to prepare for the graduate 

 forest schools those who may intend to 

 enter professional forestry. The special 

 forestry training covers such subjects as 

 dendrology, mensuration, technology, silvi- 

 culture, and management; certain phases 

 of botany are taught with a strong slant 

 towards forestry; special engineering 

 courses having forestry adaptations are J 

 offered; and two summer schools, one in 1 

 forest engineering and one in forest man- 

 agement, wherein forest students spend a 

 month each summer are held. 



Iowa State College 



Mr. Nelson C. Brown, deputy supervisor 

 on the Kaniksu National Forest, in Idaho 

 has accepted the position of assistant pro- 

 fessor of forestry at the Iowa State Col- 

 lege, at Ames. Mr. Brown received his col- 

 legiate training at ^ale, graduating in 

 1906. He immediately took up graduate 

 work in the Yale Forest School and in 1908 

 received the degree of master of forestry. 

 Since that time Mr. Brown has had wide 

 experience in forestry work both in the 

 east and in the west. His training and 

 experience together with his instructional 

 work in the Yale Summer Forest School 

 make him amply fitted for the work in his 

 new field. 



New York State Forest School 



New York is again to have a State forest 

 school. This time it is to be established in 

 connection with Syracuse University. Resi- 

 dents of New York state for one year prior 

 to matriculation will receive tree tuition. 

 The earlier New York forest school at 

 Cornell, under Dr. B. E. Fernow's able 

 direction achieved a high standard and 

 graduated many good men. The regret- 

 table discussion over the management of 

 state forest lands is fast passing into an- 

 cient history, yet it is only a few years 

 since it made a very stirring and angry 

 note in the forestry world. It involved 

 the school in the meshes of politics and 

 the state withdrew its support, compelling 

 Cornell to discontinue the school. Every 

 honest and fair-minded man who knew the 

 circumstances deplored the result, which 

 ultimately lost to this country one of its 

 ablest teachers of forestry in Dr. Fernow. 

 It is much to be hoped that the new school 

 will escape such pit-falls and work out a 

 career of great usefulness. 



