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industries. Professor L. J. Young is acting chairman of the Depart- 

 ment of Forestry. The remainder of the faculty is Robert Craig, Jr., 

 and Russell Watson, assistant professors, and H. M. Lumsden, 

 instructor. 



MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 

 Department of Forestry 



Courses providing instruction in forestry were first inaugurated 

 at the Michigan Agricultural College in 1902. This work has been 

 brought under the Department of Forestry and is now offered in a 

 four-year undergraduate course leading to the degree of Bachelor of 

 Science, and a one-year graduate course for the degree of Master 

 in Forestry. 



The forestry faculty of the Department, devoting its time exclu- 

 sively to forestry, consists of three members. Allied subjects such as 

 forest entomology, forest botany, economics and other essential studies 

 are given in other departments of the Agricultural College. The 

 present enrolment of students majoring in forestry is 100, and there 

 are two students studying for the Master's degree. In addition to 

 the technical courses in forestry, a course in farm forestry is given 

 to agricultural students and is required of all agricultural freshmen 

 in the College. Last year 170 students were enrolled in this course. 

 In the technical courses special emphasis is laid on utilization and 

 forest management and advantage is taken of the large number of 

 wood-using industries in the vicinity of Lansing to give practical ex- 

 amples of methods of dry-kilning and the study of wood technology. 



The college maintains a forest nursery from which it sells trees 

 at practically cost to residents of the State who wish them for forest 

 and windbreak planting. The school maintains a forest experiment 

 station and does extension work in forestry. In addition to the 

 regular courses during the academic year summer school work is 

 given in the north woods, providing practical experience in forest 

 mensuration, lumbering and other practical field work. Bulletins 

 are issued from time to time chronicling the result of experimental 

 work. A tract of 50,000 acres is owned in the northern part of the 

 State, being designated the Agricultural School Forest Reserve, and 

 offering opportunity for study and research. 



