EDUCATIONAL 



Prof. Roth at Cornell 



Professor Filibert Roth has accepted an 

 appointment as professor of forestry and 

 head of the Forestry Department in the New 

 York State College of Agriculture at Cor- 

 nell University. He moves to Ithaca next 

 summer. This makes the third professorial 

 appointment in forestry at Cornell in about 

 a year. Professor Walter Mulford and As- 

 sistant Professor John Bentley. Jr., who are 

 already at Ithaca, will be with Mr. Roth, 

 and the Department plans to give a thor- 

 ough technical course to students wishing to 

 make forestry their life work. The Depart- 

 ment will also continue its plans for uni- 

 versity extension work in forestry and the 

 teaching of elementary forestry to general 

 agricultural students and others at Cornell. 

 Professor Roth has been for nine years at 

 the head of the Forestry Department of the 

 University of Michigan. Mr. Roth was at 

 one time in charge of all the national forest 

 reserves under the Land Office. 



and one to junior and senior high school 

 pupils. The subject of the essay is to be 

 "Woodlot Conditions in the County in Which 

 I Live and Suggestions for Their Improve- 

 ment." 



Each an Officer 



The story of the club that was organized 

 with an office for every member, was il- 

 lustrated at the University of Missouri when 

 the Forestry Society of the University of 

 Missouri, composed of forestry students, 

 was founded. The officers are : E. L. Ander- 

 son, Goodwater, president; Victor C. Fol- 

 lenius, St. Louis, vice-president; Murrell W. 

 Talbott, Appleton City, secretary; James Pix- 

 lee, Cameron, treasurer. Next summer the 

 students will take a two weeks' camping trip 

 to the Ozarks and will "cruise" the timber 

 lands owned by the University of Missouri, 

 about 50,000 acres. Students will estimate 

 the number of board feet, map roads to get 

 the timber out, and make general observa- 

 tions and notes on the condition of Ozark 

 forests, what varieties flourish best, and how 

 the Ozark forests should be managed to get 

 the maximum return and preserve the for- 

 ests as valuable assets — conservation in the 

 open. 



Forestry for Children 



Charles C. Deam, Secretary of the Indiana 

 State Board of Forestry, has announced the 

 annual prize competition, open to school chil- 

 dren of the State, for essays bearing on 

 forest subjects. The subject of the essayi 

 and the conditions imposed are such that it 

 will be necessarv for the children to visit 

 and study woodlands. Prizes aggregating 

 $40 are to be given. Four $10 prizes will 

 be given ; one to pupils of the seventh grade, 

 one to pupils of the eighth grade, one to 

 freshmen and sophomore high school laipils 



A Course in Forestry- 

 One of the branches of practical work in 

 which the Science Department of the New- 

 town (Mass.) High School has manifested 

 much interest is the study of forestry, which 

 is being carried on in connection with the 

 botany department. The student learns the 

 kind of soil best adapted for each plant or 

 tree, the proper way to set out these trees, 

 how to insure their successful growth through 

 trimming, and the extermination of various 

 insects and pests. Certain trees are set out 

 and carefully watched by the pupils during 

 their growth. The different kinds of pests 

 which appear are examined and studied in 

 the botanical laboratory. A large tract of 

 land has been set aside by the City Forestry 

 Department for the students to set out trees 

 in and study their growth. Part of the land 

 is to be for forestry and the remainder for 

 a garden. 



New Forestry Department 



Temporary organization for a forestry 

 club, which is to be the forerunner of a 

 forestry department in the University of 

 California, has been effected. The Board of 

 Regents is to be shown by the interest in 

 this branch that there is need of a school 

 here. A fund has already been appropriated 

 for a forestry professorship. C. S. Robin- 

 son has been elected temporary chairman. 

 A committee of six to draft a constitution 

 has been appointed as follows : J. T. Saun- 

 ders (chairman). Professor Jepson, A. E. 

 Wieslander, W'. P. Smidt, William Powell 

 and F. B. Herbert. 



At Missouri ITniversity 



The course of forestry at Missouri Uni- 

 versity has been so arranged that more than 

 eight months will be spent in practical for- 

 est work. A permanent camp will be estab- 

 lished in the Ozark Mountams on the uni- 

 versity's 50,000 acres of wooded land. This 

 field work is expected to place the Missouri 

 forestry school in the highest rank of such 

 schools. Technical study of the principles 

 of forestry will be given at the university, 

 but training of foresters in such subjects as 

 timber estimating, tree planting, lumbering, 

 forest surveying, logging, roads, trails, fire 

 lines, and working plans, will be given in 

 the woods. 



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