INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



Nebraska high and grade schools do not 

 as yet, to any extent, provide instruction in 

 domestic art or science. When they gener- 

 ally do so, as it is hoped they may, the de- 

 mand for such provision at the University 

 will be less imperative. 



From the University of Nebraska pro- 

 ceeded the original suggestion that western 

 sand hills could be covered, and that profit- 

 ably, with forests. It was upon our grounds 

 and from representations made by our pro- 

 fessors that the purpose took shape in the 

 minds of government experts leading to the 

 establishment by the United States of the 

 forest reserves in the sandy counties, where 

 pines are now actually growing with the 

 utmost vigor and promise, assuring success 

 to the nation's afforestation policy and the 

 profitable afforestation, in time, of all the 

 sandy areas in the West. 



It was to assist still further this work, so 

 advantageous to our country, that the Uni- 

 versity created its Department of Forestry. 

 A four-year course is given, leading to the 

 Bachelor of Science degree. The soil in its 



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