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Forest School Michigan College 



The forestry students of the llichigau Agricultural College at 

 East Lansing this year conducted their summer school on the hold- 

 ings of the Boyne City Lumber Company, at Vanderbilt, Otsego 

 county, in the northern part of the southern peninsula of Michigan. 

 The Boyne City Lumber Company is allied with the W. H. White 

 Company of Boyne City. 



Forestry is one of the five technical courses given at the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College, and is in charge of J. Fred Baker. Gen- 

 eral scientific work is carried on during the first two years, and 

 constitutes a splendid basis for the subsequent work in forestry. 

 Among the matters given attention in the college course are farm 

 crops, animal husbandry, soils, horticulture, chemistry, bacteriology, 

 entomology, geology, drawing, zoology, advanced mathematics, and 

 modern language. The relationship of these to forestry is well 

 understood. 



The college has twentj'-nine acres of forest nursery, where many 

 practical problems are worked out, and the students are made 

 familiar with the work which they may be called upon to do 

 later in the practice of their profession. This nursery is regarded 

 as a very important part of the field laboratory. Hundreds of 

 thousands of young trees of various species are here produced in 

 seed beds, and after they attain sufficient size are transplanted 

 into rows, where they are further cared for. Conifers and broad 

 leaf trees are included, but by far the largest number is made up 

 of conifers. The species thus experimented with are those of 

 proved value as forest trees in the soil and climate of Michigan. 

 In addition to this tract de\oted to nursery work, there are 135 

 acres of timberland which is cared for as a woodlot. The nursery 

 supplies stock to those who desire to plant woodlots and shelter 



belts, and many thousand trees have been planted from the stock 

 thus supplied. 



The summer term of the school is included in the work between 

 the sophomore and junior years. The students go into the field 

 equipped to carry on the work in the most efficient manner. It 

 is not a pleasure trip or a summer outing, though by close attention 

 to work they find it possible to devote some time to recreation and 

 pleasure, and thus make an outing of the serious business in hand. 

 Though the sun rises early at Vanderbilt, Mich., in summer, it 

 does not find the students asleep in their unguarded tents. They 

 rise with the lark; that is, in ample time to make all preparations 

 for a five o'clock breakfast. They work on the lumberman's 

 schedule, which consists of long hours six days in the week. They 

 are seated at the breakfast table at five o'clock. Thirty minutes 

 later they are assembled at some convenient place to listen to a 

 lecture which forms part of the regular course. Study and work 

 go hand in hand, but the morning lecture is cut down to one hour. 

 When the camp clock marks 6:30 a. m., the students shoulder their 

 tools, implements, and appliances and go forth to tackle the field 

 work. That continues five hours — until interrupted by the "all- 

 softening, 'erpoweriug knell, the tocsin of the soul — the dinner 

 bell." One hour is devoted to the noon meal, and the field work 

 is again taken up and is continued for four hours. At 4:30 the day's 

 work ends, and recreation begins. 



The recreation consists in swimming, shooting and fishing, and 

 occupies an hour or an hour and a half, as at six o'clock conies 

 the call to supper. ' 



The field technical work is usually carried on in four courses. 

 The first two weeks are spent in civil engineering, which consists 



STUDENTS AT DINNER IN THE WOODS WITH LOGGING CREW 



STUDENTS AT PRACTICAL WORK OF LOG MENSURATION 



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