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AMERICAN FOEESTRY 



Civil Engineerin<j and the beginning of work 

 in technical forestry. The fourth and fifth 

 years will be devoted mainly to work in for- 

 estry, with some work in engineering. 



Seeking Information 



J. P. Wentling, assistant professor of for- 

 estry in the agricultural department of the 

 State University of Minnesota, has written 

 County Superintendent Boerger asking him 

 to appoint two observers of forestry in 

 Stearns County. The idea of the department 

 is to have at least two of these observers in 

 each county of the State to report on the 

 time of leafing, blossoming and fruiting of 

 the various kinds of trees. 



The department is starting out to secure 

 as nearly exact data concerning the trees of 

 the State as is possible. Competent observers, 

 whether teachers of botany or persons well 

 posted in botany are required for the work. 



Chances for Several States 

 Provided a bill is passed which is now 

 pending in the United States Senate, asking 



that five per centum of the gross receipts 

 from national forests during any fiscal year, 

 beginning June 30, 1912, shall be available 

 for the purpose of maintaining a school of 

 forestry in the States in which national for- 

 ests are located, several States will have a 

 school of forestry, to be part of the curri- 

 culum of studies of some State institutions. 



Students' Experiences 



That the young foresters of Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College can live on their own cook- 

 ing and conduct a regulation foresters' camp, 

 has been demonstrated by Professor Peavy, 

 head of the school of forestry, who with the 

 ten members of his class in forest mensura- 

 tion has been passing the last four days in 

 cruising a 640-acre tract of timber in 

 the hills west of Philomath. The boys made 

 a careful study of the fofest conditions ex- 

 isting in that type of region, relative to the 

 availability of the timber for lumbering pur- 

 poses, and were incidentally introduced to 

 the canthook, measuring stick and calipers 

 and taught their uses. 



