60 FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 



an instrument room, a storage room, and room in the basement 

 for timber testing which, however, has not yet been equipped 

 with the necessary machinery, owing to lack of funds for the 

 purpose. 



The equipment in the way of instruments and implements is 

 of the best quality, and is being added to as rapidly as the very 

 limited funds available will permit. With the growth of the 

 school, this must, of course, continually be increased. 



The spirit of co-operation shown by the other departments 

 of the University in which part of the curriculum is given is 

 admirable. This is particularly true in the Biological and En- 

 gineering Departments where much of the fundamental work is 

 given to the forestry students in order to prepare them for the 

 more advanced forestry work. 



The following students are now taking forestry courses : 



Students whose major subject is forestry 31 



Seniors 6 



Juniors 6 



Sophomores 4 



Freshmen 15 



Special students majoring in forestry 5 



Students taking special forestry courses 4 



Total 40 



This represents about 5% of the total enrollment at the Uni- 

 versity, and all of these students pay the regular tuition fees to 

 the Unversity, though no instruction in forestry proper is pro- 

 vided for by the University itself. This year, however, a field 

 assistant was provided and paid by the University for assisting 

 the professor of forestry during the fall semester with the field- 

 work. There is available for this work only the special fund of 

 $2500 provided by the state legislature for public instruction in 

 forestry, and so far, not even all of this fund has been for the 

 work at the University. Other departments in the University 

 with the same number of students have funds of from three to 

 four times this amount to provide for instruction in their partic- 

 ular branches. Is it fair to the forestry students that they 

 should have less instruction in the work of their chosen profes- 

 sion? 



