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Summer following Second and Third Years — Student is to be 

 advised to drop out of college for one year and rustle a job with 

 some lumber company unless he has had previous equivalent 

 experience. 



Fourth Year — Engineering mechanics, railroad surveying, forest 

 mensuration (scaling, cruising, etc.), shop work in metal, cost- 

 keeping, economics (factors of industrial efficiency and business 

 organization), silviculture, strength of materials, wood technology. 



Summer following Fourth Year — Field work in forest mensura- 

 tion, etc. ; in camp, eleven weeks. 



Fifth Year — Forest improvement construction, logging, busi- 

 ness law, scientific management, engineering contracts, forest 

 administration, forest finance, timber trees of the United States, 

 geology, tree planting, testing laboratory, forest utilization 

 (timber preservation, destructive distillation, etc.) 



The State College of Washington, at Pullman, is the third 

 college we note to offer through its extension department and ths 

 department of forestry a correspondence course in Lumber and 

 Its Uses. The New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse 

 and the University of Minnesota also offer a course on this subject. 

 These courses are specially designed to be of value to lumber 

 dealers, contractors, carpenters, and others connected with the 

 wood-working industries. 



The Forest Service of the United States is conducting a compara- 

 tive study with the Forest School of the University of Georgia, the 

 object being to ascertain methods of marketing farm woodlot 

 products and suggest improvements. The data will be placed 

 before the farmers of the State in publications of the University. 



With the idea that the many people who go into the Adirondacks 

 each summer shoiild know more of the forests and their wild life. 

 The New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse as a part of 

 its extension work, interested Mr. Melvil Dewey, President of the 

 Lake Placid Club, in setting aside the last week of July as a Forest 

 Week for the Club. The many people who come to the Club 

 and to other resorts about Lake Placid had the privilege this year 

 of hearing addresses by some of the best known foresters in the 

 country. The program consisted of a round table discussion each 

 morning in the week at 10:00 o'clock, at which the development 

 of the forest, how it may be protected and the part the wild life 



