News and Notes 173 



Nelson C. Brown, Professor of Forest Utilization in the Col- 

 lege of Forestry, at Syracuse University, attended the Annual 

 Meeting of the American Wood Preservers' Association held in 

 Chicago on January 19, 20 and 21. Following this meeting 

 Professor Brown visited a number of large wood-using indus- 

 tries in and about Cadillac, Michigan. Professor Brown is 

 .securing data along the line of utilization of waste materials 

 and visited plants at Cadillac for data to be used in a bulletin 

 soon to be issued by the College. On February 7 a party of 30 

 S'eniors started for the Adirondacks with Professor Brown to 

 spend about three weeks in studying logging operations and 

 sawmills in and around the Tupper Lake section. This month 

 of required field work on the part of the Seniors of the College 

 completes a year of practical experience which is required of 

 every student in the College of Forestry before graduation. 



Registration for the second semester of the College year has 

 just closed at the New York State College of Forestry at Syra- 

 cuse with 260 men and one woman registered as applicants for 

 the degree of Bachelor of Science. No special students are 

 accepted in the College at Syracuse. Already 22 men have 

 signed up for the year's work in the State Ranger School at 

 Wanakena which opens on the first Tuesday in March. Out of 

 the 35 men who have been graduated from the State College of 

 Forestry, 28 are in some phase of forestry work. It is not 

 expected by the College that 80 per cent of its graduates will 

 continue in forestry work and yet these 28 men have secured 

 positions in forestry work during a time when it was pretty 

 commonly stated that there were no openings. 



The College of Forestry at Syracuse offers a correspondence 

 course in Lumber and Its Uses to any person in the State of 

 New York. This phase of its general educational work has 

 been developed as a result of an increasing number of inquiries 

 from every section of New York regarding the technical quali- 

 ties of various American woods. 



The University of Minnesota makes announcement of a cor- 

 respondence course in Lumber and Its Uses, beginning in the first 

 semester of 1916. This course is to teach technical data relative 



