940 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



year are for a full quota of freshmen and sophomores, but for very 

 small junior and senior classes. 



A court decision has confirmed the title of the University of Cali- 

 fornia in the so-called .Whitaker's forest, a splendid body of timber 

 of 320 acres, situated in Tulare County. The stand averages about 

 25,000 feet per acre, with 80 acres running over twice that amount, 

 and consists of species common to the Sierras, namely, sugar pine, 

 yellow pine, white fur and incense cedar. It also contains a large 

 number of giant sequoia, including many exceptionally fine specimens. 

 The area was willed to the university six years ago, both for experi- 

 mental purposes and as a park, and has since been in liquidation. The 

 Forestry Division has already started studies on the rate of growth 

 by the permanent sample-plot method. 



A one-year course has been inaugurated by the Forest School of the 

 Georgia State College of Agriculture. Its purpose is to supply a short 

 practical training in lumbering, with special emphasis on the engineering 

 aspect of the subject. The course is intended to fit the graduate for 

 woods foreman, yard boss, scaler, cruiser or surveyor, and also for the 

 position of ranger in the Forest Service. 



The enrollment of professional forestry students, including fresh- 

 men, in the Department of Forestry at Cornell University is 37 this 

 year, as against no for the college year 1916-17. The registration 

 for Cornell University as a whole is 3,355 this year, as against 4,746 

 a year ago. 



The board of directors of the Vladivostok Commercial School, at 

 Vladivostok, Siberia, will transform the school into a polytechnical 

 institution with several departments, among which the forestry branch 

 will occupy a prominent place. 



In investigating the underground water supply of the Santa Clara 

 Valley, California, the Geological Survey found that in the Morgan 

 Hill area, during the rainy season, the ground water level rises from 

 10 to as much as 45 feet, or an average of about 19 feet. This rise, it 

 was calculated, corresponds to a storage of about 34,000 acre-feet, suf- 

 ficient to irrigate the whole area of 15,700 acres if planted to orchard. 



