THE CALL OF THE LAND 



relation to vegetation and the relations of 

 climate and rainfall to the forest covering 

 of the country are carefully studied, also 

 modes of afforestation, forest preservation, 

 utilization and economy, good and bad trees 

 for various uses and localities, seed collect- 

 ing and nursery practice. Economic geol- 

 ogy, botany, entomology and zoology, with 

 all which we do much, well combine with 

 this forestry drill. Each student has the 

 opportunity to spend one or more summers 

 in some of the government reserves engag- 

 ing in actual forestry practice. 



Throughout the Mississippi Valley the 

 most important form of industrial education 

 is agricultural. What I say on this relates 

 primarily to my own habitat. I cannot un- 

 dertake to epitomize the status of agricul- 

 tural knowledge all over America, as is 

 done so interestingly in W. S. Harwood's 

 book "The New Earth." I draw a sketch 

 with local details and color, not a continen- 

 tal map. Most of its traits, however, fit as 

 well the other states between the great river 

 and the Rockies, and, with slight modifica- 



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