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, 

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

 John C. Sharp, Jackson. 



FOREST NURSERIES tnis w rk 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 SUHOOLij 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 i e over as w j de 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- tioir. 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 



the regular work of the public schools. One doubtedly face local problems which are not take care of themselves through the hot 



touched upon in this bulletin. 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 Department of Agriculture invites correspond- devised to protect and care for them during 



The large number of schools, both rural and ence wjth regard {o the difficulties encoun . this time . Just how this will be accomplished 



city, which have established gardens, and the fered and wi] , , adl furnish advice and sug . depends i ai - ge ly upon the ingenuity of the 



volume of literature which has been contr.b- tions free o{ cha e . teacher and K * n cal comlit ns . 



succe" whth^hT ch a o e rgarder P h as ta a n c C h1e a ved When to Begin Preparations. . It is evident that some sort of an organize 



The first work of preparation for the school tion on the part of the pupils whereby they 



Kith. I <rd P n have been de nursery must usually be done in the autumn, shall voluntarily assume the duties of caring 



when the ground should be broken and util- f r the nursery is infinitely more desirable 



vnteH exrhisivelv to the Lrrowino" of common UIICI1 tne HIUUIIU snuuiu uc ui UK.CII auu uui * J J . 



a den veeeub es and 'flowering * plants whh iz ^ to ^ ready for s P ri "g planting. Most than any other plan, because .t will insure the 



new 'Vies forest-tree seeds must be collected in the continued interest and attention of the scl 



teres t One ,f autumn and stored through the winter. Hence to its project. No definite outline of the exact 



'ntere 1 has been tha the school which plans to establish a nursery form which this organization shall assume is 



tab es suitaWe for should begin to lay plans for it during the possible in this bulletin, because of the vary- 



- H T _ fall term in order to have everything in readi- ing conditions surrounding different schools; 



ou red by the school work n atn 7 reach ness for work the following spring. but there are certain things which it must a 



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their most interesting stages at a season when Extent of the Undertaking. " 



the school is ordinarily closed for vacation. Work of this nature should never be under- c ' sf . ullv - Provision must be made for 1 



Another thing which has tended to make taken on too large a scale. If too many seed- r egu ^ n ' t * - See ' 



much school garden work somewhat unsatis- lings are planted, the care of the nursery may , 



factory is that after the work is once done no prove so much of a burden that the students ne , s ' 



visible, tangible results are evident, and ap- will find no pleasure in it. and when the trees a rule > be wa t.ered with more or less fr 



parently no lasting good is accomplished other are grown it will be hard to dispose of them ( '" enc f depending upon the season. 



than the instruction given and the knowledge without loss. Should the trees die, the natural s t u l^ H t 



of plant life which may have been acquired. inference on the part of the pupils would be 



A school nursery for the propagation of for- that the work done by them in caring for the P rotected by f< ! ncln A " t hls must be d 

 est trees offers an interesting variation from young trees was useless. This would defeat thoroughly and without fail or nothing 

 the usual type of gardening and at the same the purpose of the undertaking. It should disappointment will come of the undertake 

 time overcomes the difficulties just mentioned, therefore be the endeavor of each school to and th ? r ultin d >scouragement will 

 The crop of the forest nursery is one which raise but a few trees per pupil, but to grow wo l rse than lf nothing had been done 

 does not disappear with the close of the sea- these successfully and to transplant all of H , ow to accomplish these ends will be i 

 son, but instead the young trees need only to them with the smallest possible loss to per- problem which each school will have to * 

 be transferred from the nursery bed to some manent sites on the school grounds or about ut for lts ? lf Poss 'bly one solution would 

 new location on lawns or school grounds to the homes in the community for shelter, tim- the organization of a forestry club coi 

 become permanent evidence of the work done ber, or ornamental purposes. The aim must P sed f ,, V ? lu "t eer foI T st ran f ers 

 and a lasting tribute to the school. Further- be impressed upon the pupils if the lesson of dutles ? ha11 be ^ e Protection and care of t, 

 more, this work of transplanting the trees is the value of forest trees is to be taught. If tr f f es " ' ust a ? the government officers 

 best done early in the spring when the school only one tree per pupil is grown, but every ? fte !V the natlonal forests - 

 is in session and at its best so far as the inter- one safely transplanted to a permanent site be l . h means f doln g much good throug 

 est of the pupils is concerned. In this way where it may grow into usefulness and beauty, th f lnterest which they arouse in general I 

 the forest nursery is even more adaptable to the work of the nursery will be infinitely more " try ' as , we11 a * through the practical bem 

 school use than is the ordinary garden. satisfactory than if hundreds of seedlings are den , v , ed from the nursery itself. 



A nursery on the lines laid down in this cir- produced and many of them allowed to perish. c uld also arra nf?e for an exchange of stffl- 

 cular will not require any more labor and at- Co-operation Between Schools. p ' les ot .tree seeds and even of nursery 



tention that a garden, if as much, with the It will add greatly to the pupils' interest in thlls dolng exact 'y the same work that cot 

 possible exception that there is the added the tree nurseries if school located in different mtr . c ' al nurseries undertake in supplying new 

 necessity of collecting and storing the tree parts of the country exchange supplies of tree Xfneti. trees suitable and desirabl 



seeds through the winter. However, if this seeds. It is suggested, therefore, that each ^nnntltuuiA *<->ri tt, i 



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 YEAR_. 



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 pleted A large number of test borings were 

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

 amount of attention that the vegetables do. to produce those with which every one is a)- 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 

 pnrtumties 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 b) 



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 t 

 a school may establis i and care for a small partment of Agriculture will be glad to co- keep the Bay City plant supplied for 25 year: 

 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 eash other, and also by 25 men and several teams. 



