i6o FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION March 



lege. Harvard has been given 2,000 to be managed by the State Board of 



acres of timber land to serve as an Agriculture, and the income to be ap- 



adjunct to the department of forestry, plied to the college. The reserve is to 



The Agricultural College gives a four be utilized by students for purposes of 



years' undergraduate course in for- practical study. The college forest 



estry, and provides large nurseries, an nursery includes five acres, 



arboretum, a natural forest, and other Minnesota's State Forestry Board 



equipment. has provided for a summer school qf 



At Yale the new course in practical forestry at the Itasca State Park, 



lumbering endowed by the National Twenty thousand acres surrounding 



Ivumber Manufacturers' Association the lake have been given by the Legis- 



is a pronounced success. The senior lature to the Forestry Board with per- 



•class has spent three and a half mission to establish a demonstration 



months studying in the short-leaf pine school of forestry under the manage- 



forests of Missouri. ment of the State University regents. 



In Pennsylvania, forestry instruc- A four years' course is provided. The 



tion is given in the State College and attempt will be made to manage the 



at Mount Alto. The forestry depart- tract as a model forest. A forestry 



ment in the State College was estab- experiment station is to be established, 



lished this year. A four years' course, Students are expected to spend ten 



leading to the degree of bachelor of months of the year in practical work 



science, is given. The students work in the woods. 



in the adjacent State forest. Mount The Legislature of North Dakota 

 Alto gives a three years' course, and has appropriated $25,000 for a new 

 provides practical work in the sum- building for the School of Forestry, 

 aner on the Mount xA.lto reservation. The University of Nebraska main- 

 Newark, N. J., has given a sue- tains a well-patronized department of 

 cessful forestry exhibition in its Free forestry. The students have organ- 

 Public Library. ized a forestry club, meeting twice a 



The Maryland Forester gives lee- month, 



tures in the State Agricultural Col- In Colorado, forestry is taught in 



lege and before granges and farmers' Colorado College (Colorado Springs) 



institutes and clubs. and in the State Agricultural College 



Berea College, Kentucky, gives a (Fort Collins). At the latter institu- 



preparatory course in forestry. The tion a short course in technical for- 



college has 4.000 acres of woodland in estry has been given, almost half of 



which forest problems are investi- the students being forest supervisors, 



gated. Some practical lumbering is rangers, or guards, some of whom 



also done by the college. had come hundreds of miles and for- 



In the Biltmore Forest School, near feited pay in order to attend. 

 Asheville, N. C, all summer work is The State of Washington has re- 

 done in the woods ; logging and mill- cently established forestry depart- 

 ing operations are studied at first ments in both its University and Agri- 

 hand, while the Biltmore nurseries cultural College. 



and plantation progress are inspected Other agencies contribute to educa- 



from time to time. tional work. Arbor Day, proclaimed 



Michigan teaches forestry in her by the President, is becoming a potent 



State University, which maintains a factor in the education of school 



flourishing department, and in her children ; in its observance, increasing 



Agricultural College. The latter in- emphasis is laid upon the practical 



stitution has given forestry instruc- rather than upon the purely senti- 



tion for fifteen years. The course is mental side. 



four years long. The Legislature set A number of States provide for- 



aside 40,000 acres of land in Iosco and estry lectures before farmers' insti- 



Alcona counties for a forest reserve, tutes. The lecture campaign by Mr. 



