74 FOREST COMMISSIONER S REPORT. 



SENIOR YEAR 



Fall Semester Spring Semester 



Subject Hours Subject Hours 



Principles of Breeding 2 Plant Physiology or Plant 



Pathology 4 or 3 



Political Economy 2 Money & Banking 3 



History of Forestry 2 Silviculture 2 



Silviculture 2 Silviculture Field vi^ork 2 



Silviculture Field Work .... 2 Forest Management i 



Lumbering 5 Forest Technology i 



Electives 2 History 2 3 



Thesis 5 



17 21 or 20 



Total of 150 hours. 



If the Department of Forestry of the University of Maine is 

 to hold the place in forestry education that it has already made, 

 it is necessary to strengthen the curriculum by the addition of 

 several courses and to provide at once an increased appropria- 

 tion to secure an adequate force of instruction for giving tech- 

 nical work in the subject as required in a first class forest 

 school. In a work of this kind it is impossible to stand still, we 

 must either proceed to develop the department as the demands 

 upon it increase, or we are bound to fall below the standard of 

 requirements. It seems, however, that we should go ahead 

 rather than backward in this matter, for we have one of the 

 oldest established undergraduate schools of forestry in the 

 United States, and there is no other undergraduate school of 

 forestry north of Pennsylvania, at the present time, giving or 

 as able as we are to give the required work. To accomplish 

 this efficiently we must have at least double the present appro- 

 priation. The State of Maine is one of the best wooded states 

 east of the Mississippi river and the whole prosperity of the 

 state is dependent in no small degree upon the proper care and 

 protection of the forest. There is moreover a demand for men 

 properly trained in technical forestry. The school is well es- 

 tablished and housed and equipped in a better manner than 

 many other larger schools. The men are already here seeking 



