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is the project of creosoting fence posts. This project has been under 

 way for about 18 years and is producing very interesting results. A 

 number of reforestation projects are carried on, demonstrating a 

 suitability of various species for reforesting purposes in Iowa. 



In the instructional work, the students are being prepared along 

 two general lines ; forest production and administration, and utiliza- 

 tion and lumbering. Those following the first course generally enter 

 government or state work and those in the second take up corporation 

 activity. The fundamentals of academic work are provided in 

 each course. 



LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College 



With increased interest in, and activity in behalf of forestry in 

 Louisiana, the State University is the latest recruit to the ranks of 

 educational institutions giving courses under a Department of 

 Forestry leading to a degree in forestry. 



The new course has been finally worked out for the first two years, 

 covering general cultural work and dendrology in the second year. The 

 tentative courses for the last two years will cover soil physics, sylvi- 

 culture, plant physiology and forest mensuration, forest economics and 

 reclamation, wood technology, logging and lumbering, forest ento- 

 mology, forest pathology and the chemistry of forest products. The 

 work is supplemented by a six-week summer course in a forest camp 

 in the southern pine belt near Bogalusa. The degree of Bachelor of 

 Science will be granted for the course. 



UNIVERSITY OF MAINE 



Forestry work under the Department of Forestry, University of 

 Maine at Orono, was first offered in 1903 and in 1904 ten men were 

 registered with forestry work as their major subject. Since then an 

 average of 40 have been registered annually in forestry, 771 students 

 having majored in this course for at least one year and 79 having been 

 graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry. More 

 than 1000 other students have taken forestry courses and the staff 

 has given many lectures in other educational institutions. 



The course is a four-year undergraduate course giving special 



