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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



material in art and industry, will form the 

 subject-matter of the course to be given the 

 second half of the first semester. 



Hardwood and softwood will be studied 

 and compared as to their use in distilling 

 alcohol and producing turpentine and other 

 materials in a course to be given in the first 

 half of the second semester. All of the basic 

 principles, as well as the processes and prod- 

 ucts of such distillation will be taught, and 

 the students will have an opportunity to make 

 a personal study of the government's in- 

 vestigations in ways and means of using all 

 the waste products of logging, lumbering, and 

 wood manufacturing, amounting altogether to 

 two-thirds of every tree cut down. 



How to save timbers, especially those in 

 mines and on the water front, from animal 

 and fungous pests, will be the problem on 

 which a course in wood preservatives will 

 work. The students will compare the resist- 

 ance of different woods, their fibers and the 

 conditions of deterioration, and will be 

 shown the different preservative processes 

 in the laboratory, including both those in 

 which the timbers are given surface appli- 

 cations and those in which the aseptics are 

 forced into the fibers. 



All the machinery and methods used in 

 logging and in wood manufacture with the 

 designing of woodworking plants, will be 

 taught by Professor McKeown during the sec- 

 ond semester in his course on wood manu- 

 facturing machinery. 



In addition, advanced research work may 

 be done by students who are prepared for it 

 in the government laboratory under the su- 

 pervision of the experts in charge. 



Michigan Agricultural College 



The summer forestry school opened on the 

 28th of June and closes on the nth of Au- 

 gust. The session is held at Cold Springs, 

 on the shores of Higgins Lake, and is con- 

 ducted in cooperation with the Public Do- 

 main Commission. The state forest reserve 

 of 38,000 _ acres, timbered with jack pine, 

 Norway pine, white pine, scrub oak, and 

 white cedar, is located here, and it is upon 

 this that the students will work. 



This summer term is required work for 

 junior foresters. Two courses will be given, 

 one in sun^eying methods and one in forest 

 mensuration. These courses are not com- 

 plete in themselves, but are followed by ad- 

 vanced work during the remaining terms of 

 the_ junior and senior years. Each course 

 entitles the student to five college credits. 

 The program provides for one lecture hour 

 and eight hours of field work each day. An 

 hour will be given to target practice, swim- 

 ming, and boating. The mail address is 

 Roscommon, care of M. A. C. Forestry Camp. 



Washington State Agricultural College 



C. H. Goetz, who has been for two years 

 teacher of forestry at this institution, has 

 resigned his position. During the summer 

 he will be in the employ of the Washington 

 State Fire Association in its work of protect- 

 ing the forests of Washington against fire. 

 Ten or more men have gone out of this in- 

 stitution since Mr. Goetz took charge of its 

 forestry work and are now in the United 

 States and other forestry work, 



