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ARBORICULTURE 



A rour-years' course in Forestry and 

 Horticulture has been established, during 

 which four courses in Forestry are given 

 in connection with numerous courses hi 

 Horticulture. 



In the Freshman year is given a course 

 in Elementary Forestry which goes into 

 the subjects of the life history and growth 

 of trees; forests and forest influences; dis- 

 tribution of trees native in the United 

 States and in Iowa; trees for planting of 

 wind breaks and groves, with methods of 

 planting and care, and elementary methods 

 of tree measurements. Lectures are given 

 upon the relation of forestry to other 

 sciences and industries, with something as 

 to the history of the work and its present 

 economic importance in this country. 



In the Sophomore and Junior years a 

 course in Silviculture continues the out- 

 door studies of the native tree species. 

 Practical work is given in methods of col- 

 lecting, storing, testing and planting of 

 tree seeds. The various trees adapted for 

 growth in this State are taken up and dis- 

 cussed at some length. The farm grove or 

 wood lot is studied with regard to meth- 

 ods of formation and care. Work in 

 Forest Measurements is continued with 

 especial attention to the measurement of 

 growth in height, diameter and volume. 

 Protection of woodlots and groves from 

 fire, insects, and gazing is studied and ap- 

 plied to local conditions. 



During the Senior year advanced work 

 in the Principles of Forestry, Forest Man- 

 agement, Economics of Forestry, Forest 

 Valuation, Wood Technology, and lines of 

 original investigation are taken up. 



FACILITIES FOR PRACTICAL WOEK. 



Although Ames is located in a prairie 

 region, the presence of several streams and 

 rivers, along which there is a considerable 

 amount of natural growth, affords ample 

 opportunity for becoming acquainted with 

 native trees and their growth under nat- 

 ural conditions. 



Students may enter the work in Forestry 

 and Horticulture under the same regula- 

 tions which govern the entrance into the 

 other courses in the College, and will be 

 given equal advantages in every way. 



H. P. Baker. Forester. 



"THE PRAIRIE AND THE SEA." 



Doctor William A. Quayle's latest work. 

 Published by Jennings & Graham, Cincia- 

 nati. O. 



There are no publishers of books who 

 do finer work and better illustrated than 

 this Cincinnati firm. 



Dr. Quayle is a born naturalist. He sees 

 more in nature than most of us who pride 

 ourselves in being close to nature. But Dr. 

 Quayle could not live upon the prairies, 

 write about the prairies, and think of the 

 prairies without getting down into the 

 valleys and strolling along the quiet stream 

 which there flows, to dwell among the 

 trees which he so loves. 



The Doctor is a true arboriculturist. He 

 writes intelligently of the oak, the ash, 

 the sycamore, hackberry, elm, wild cherry, 

 birch and pines. But he left the prairies 

 and traversed the Rockies to find the 

 pines. 



The birds, the animals and the flowers 

 each have their share of attention from the 

 gifted author's pen. How true his criti- 

 cism of authors who have written of the 

 prairie without understanding them. Only 

 Cooper of our American writers knew the 

 prairies intimately. 



Of the prairie wolf the author writes: 

 "He, too, is a lover of the prairie. Wolf 

 he is, sullen and whelpish. His swinging 

 gallop, with head thrown back waggishly- 

 over his shoulder, is free as the blowing of 

 winter winds. His lair is the prairie-paved 

 sky. He is not moral. He cares for no 

 work in ethics. He looks out for No. 1, 

 in which lucrative employment, both on 

 and off the prairie, many are engaged. He 

 is ministerially inclined in his love for 

 chicken, though I truly hope the minis- 

 ters are more religious in their method of 

 acquiring their favorite edible." 



How in a single sentence he describes 

 the tree which is so common in the West, 

 "The Cottonwood, a lover of prairie 

 streams!" 



Those who read this work will know 

 thoroughly that the author has seen and 

 lived upon the prairies and knows the 

 plants and birds and animals which in- 

 habited them in the days before the great 

 wheat and corn fields had taken from them 

 their individuality. Dr. Quayle writes of 

 the pairies which once existed in the 

 great expanse beyond the muddy Missouri. 



