12 _ MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS _ 



MICHIGAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



The Michigan Forestry Association was organized in Grand Rapids August 30, 1905, having for its object the promotion of a ra- 

 tional system of forestry in Michigan. The society is managed by the following roster of officers: President, Hon. Chas. W. Garfield, of Grand 

 Rapids; Vice-President, John H. Bissell, of Detroit; Secretary, Filibert Roth, of Ann Arbor; Assistant Secretary, Henry G. Stevens, Detroit; 

 Treasurer, W. B. Mershon, Saginaw, W. S. Board of Directors Hon. J. E. Beal, Ann Arbor; J. J. Hubbell, Manistee; Mrs. Lena E. Mautner, 

 Sagiuaw; Prof. James Satterlee, Lansing; J. C. Knox, Cadillac; W. E. Williams, Pittsford; Dr. Lucius L. Hubbard, Houghton ; Mrs. 

 John C. Sharp, Jackson. 



FOREST NURSERIES tn ' s wor ^ w 'th the best results. Consequently, giving free advice as to desirable trees adapt- 



, the attempt is here made to give directions ed to each locality. 



FOR SCHOOLS which will be applicable to schools with very The Care of the Nursery During Vacation. 



_ limited resources. One of the most difficult problems which 



It is intended, further, to make these plans the school will have to solve will be how to 



In recent years there has been evident a usab ] e over as wide a range of territory as care for the nursery during the summer vaca- 



decided movement toward the introduction of possible. Certain localities, with unusual con- tion. It will not do to leave the young trees 



nature study and elementary agriculture into ditions of temperature or humidity, will un- which were planted during the spring term to 



^,,hi,v =^v,or>u HUP doubtedly face local problems which are not take care of themselves through the hot 



the regular work of the public : E touched ' ? in thig bul]etin . In all such months of July and August until school opens 



of the most popular and interesting features cases the Forest Service of the United States again in September. Some means must be 



of this movement has been the school garden Tj epartment o f Agriculture invites correspond- devised to protect and care for them during 



The large number of schools, both rural and ence with regard to the difficulties encoun- this time. Just how this will be accomplished 



city, which have established gardens, and the teredj and w ;i] g l a dly furnish advice and sug- depends largely upon the ingenuity of the 



volume of literature which has been contrib- gest j ons f ree o f charge. teacher and upon local conditions. 



uted on this subject, attest the importance and When to Beein Preparations It is evident that some sort of an organiza- 



success which the school garden has ach.eved ^ fi W en^o^ JP? P for ^ ^^ tion on the part of the pupi]s whereby they 



sus ^ fi ^ for ^^ on on e par o e pups wrey y 



in the educational world. nurserv must usually be done in the autumn shall voluntarily assume the duties of caring 



Hitherto most school gardens have been de- ^^ h f^^T^i d iT b nkmMd^-f^ the nursery is infinitely more desirable 



when. ' " 



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voted exclusively to the growing of common wen. ,'JeT ea dv for SD riLDant" n r Most than any other plan, because it will insure the 

 garden vegetables and flowering plants, with ^^^.^^^^^f^?'^^ continued interest and attention of the school 

 here and there the introduction of new species f res IA"??*^**? the winter Hence to its project. No definite outline of the exact 

 as an additional incentive to interest One of fuf^hoo which olan > estabHsh a nursery form which this organization shall assume is 

 the chief difficulties encountered has been that j s ' h b o1 hlcn ^vDlaL for it during the possible in this bulletin, because of the vary- 

 most of the plants and vegetables suitable for ^^j* 1 ^,. ^ have everything [nfeadU >"g conditions surrounding different schools; 

 cultivation and demonstration purposes re- al term " no, d" ^ ^^ ^"^"S but there are certain things which it must ac- 



quired by the school work mature or reach "ess f le following complish in order to serve its purpose suc- 



their most interesting stages at a season when irtaKing cessfully. Provision must be made for the 



the school is ordinarily closed for vacation. Work 01 this nature should never be under- ]ar cultivation of the' seedlings by hoeing 



Another thing which has tended to make taken on too large a scale. If too many see - an<j weed ; Qnce or twice each month> or 

 much school garden work somewhat unsatis- lings are planted the care of the nursery m: jr ofte duri the summer . They must, as 



factory is that after the work is once done no prove so much of a burden that the students a ru , fee watered with more or ]ess fre . 

 visible, tangible results are evident, and ap- will hnd no pleasure in it. and when the trees depending upon the season. If the 

 parently no lasting good is accomplished other are grown it will be hard to dispose of them she of thg seed bed ig exposed to trespass er 3 

 than the instruction given and the knowledge without loss. Should the trees die the natural Qf {Q the d redations of an j ma ls, ; t must be 

 of plant life which may have been acquired. inference on the part of the pupils e tected b fencing . A n this must be done 



A school nursery for the propagation of for- that the work done by them in caring for the tho hl and without fai i or not hing but 

 est trees offers an interesting variation from young trees was useless^ This would defeat disappointment wi n come of the undertaking, 

 the usual type of gardening and at the same the purpose of the undertaking It should and thg resu]tin discouragement will be 

 time overcomes the difficulties just mentioned, therefore be the endeavor of each school to wQrse than . f nothing had been done 

 The crop of the forest nursery is one which raise but a few trees per pupil, but to grow Row tQ accomp , ish these ends win be a 



ow Q ccomps ese ens w 



does not disappear with the close of the sea- these successfully and to transplant all ot b]em which each school will have to work 



son, but instead the young trees need only to them with the smallest possible loss to per- ou( for ;tse]f Possib i y one so i ut i on would be 



be transferred from the nursery bed to some manent sites on the school grounds or abc t thg organ ; zation of a "f ores try club" corn- 



new location on lawns or school grounds to the homes in the community lor shelter, tim- ed Q{ vo ] unteer "f orest rangers" whose 



become permanent evidence of the work done ber, or ornamental purposes. The aim must duties ghal , be the rotection and care of the 



and a lasting tribute to the school. Further- be impressed upon the pupils if the lesson of treeS] just ag the government officer s look 



more, this work of transplanting the trees is the value of forest trees is to be taught. t aftef {he national f orest s. These clubs may 



best done early in the spring when the school only one tree per pupil is grown, but every be {he meang Qf dojng much good through 



is in session and at its best so far as the inter- one safely transplanted to a permanent z {he interest which thev arou se in general for- 



est of the pupils is concerned. In this way where it may grow into usefulness and beauty, g as we] , as throv ; h the practica i bene fit 



the forest nursery is even more adaptable to the work of the nursery will be infinitely more derived from the nurser y itself. The clubs 



school use than is the ordinary garden. satisfactory than if hundreds ot seedlings are cou]d alsQ arranRe for an exchange of sup- 



A nursery on the lines laid down in this cir- produced and many of them allowed to perish. ]ieg of treR seedg and eyen of nursery stockj 



cular will not require any more labor and at- Co-operation Between Schools thus doj exact]y the same work that com . 



tention that a garden, if as much, with the It will add great y to the pupils .interest in mfcrdal nurser ies undertake in supplying new 



possible exception that there is the added the tree nurseries if school located in different var i e ties of trees suitable and desirable for 



necessity of collecting and storing the tree parts of the country exchange supplies of tree the commum - ty 



seeds through the winter. However, if this seeds. It is suggested, therefore, that each (Continued next month.) 



is found impracticable, tree seeds may be pur- school endeavor to communicate with some _ | 



chased, just as vegitable seeds are, from deal- other school situated in another locality, and 



ers. The actual work of caring for the nur- by exchange secure some new varieties of tree MARL ENOUGH FOR 25 YEARS. 



sery is practically the same as that required seeds and introduce these new and unfamiliar A thorough survey of the marl deposits at 



for the care of the garden. The ground- for trees into the community. It will be much Edwards lake, Ogemaw county, has been com- 



the seed beds is prepared in the same manner, more interesting for the pupils to watch the p leted. A large number of test borings were 



and the seedlings require about the same growth of a strange type of tree than merely made to ascertain the depth and quality of the 



amount of attention that the vegetables do. to produce those with which every one is al- marl and surveys made to learn how much 



On the other hand the results will be much ready familiar, and, should the experiment be- more the lake could be lowered to expose the 



more enduring and valuable. Besides the op- successful, these new trees may be made to deposit. In some spots the borings showed 



portunities afforded by the nursery for study serve a useful purpose if they are awarded as nearly 30 feet of marl, and it was found that 



and instruction, the trees which are success- prizes for faithful work done by individual the water of the lake could be further lowered 



fully grown will, if wisely utilized, be a source pupils. Care must always be taken, however, something over seven feet. An official of the 



of comfort, beauty, and even profit to the not to experiment too much with trees which Hecla Cement Company made a rough esti- 



school or community for years. are not likely to thrive because of the climate mate of the marl that would be exposed by 



The plan outlined in this bulletin is intended or other local conditions. the lowering of the lake to the limit and con- 



to furnish suggestions and direction by which The Forest Service of the United States De- eluded there would be a sufficient amount to 



a school may establish and care for a small partment of Agriculture will be glad to co- keep the Bay City plant supplied for 25 years 



nursery. It is realized that schools will sel- operate in this work by putting schools de- at the present capacity. If the marl is utilized 



dom have the best kind of soil available, or siring to exchange supplies of tree seeds in it will mean steady employment for at least 



be supplied with all the tools desirable to do communication with cash other, and also by 25 men and several teams. 



