DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 77 



nianent plantinji'. Seven thousand yearling Norway pine have been 

 transplanted in the nnrsery, thereby thinning the 3,000 sufficiently that 

 they can grow during this year where they grew last year. 



Further work on methods of growing forest trees has been done. 

 Three-fourths of an acre on the west end of field 18 has been planted 

 by the furrow method with good i)Tomise of success. Further planting 

 has been done in field IT where the fire from the railroad ran over on 

 May 18, 11)03. 



Two hundred trees, 100 willow and poplar cuttings and quantities 

 of tree seeds have been shipped to the manager of the sub-station at 

 Chatham on the Upper Peninsula. Report is received that the locust 

 are doing well. Fiftj' locust and 50 catalpa trees and some willow 

 cuttings and roots of crab grass Avere ])lanted on a small spot on a 

 large sand dune in Newaygo county. Reports received say that the 

 trees are alive and growing. Exchange of tree seeds and cuttings is 

 being carried on with Mr. L, A. Dode of Paris, France. 



Equipment for outside work and laboratory work has been increased 

 as far as funds would permit. A large number of photographs of 

 objects of interest in forestry have been taken. 



This Department was asked to make a forest nursery model and to 

 pi-epare photographs showing the silvicultural conditions of the United 

 States for use at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis. The 

 government furnished funds for the i)reparation of this exhibit. 



The collection of specimens of interest in forestry has continued. We 

 are in great need of a suitable place in which to exhibit such material. 



This Department has been doing full class-room work during the 

 year. Two men have been graduated from the forestry course. Lower 

 classmen Avill fill the schedule of work for next year. During the year 

 seventy-one (71) students have received instruction in forestry in this 

 Department during the past year as against 37 the previous year. 



Lectures on forestry have been delivered before short-course students 

 and farmers' institutes. 



The Department has made as rapid development as' circumstances 

 would permit. 



Respectfullv submitted, 



E. E. BOGUE. 

 Agricultural College, Mich. 

 June 30, 1904. 



