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Canadian Forestry Journal, October, 1913 



FOREST SCHOOL NOTES. 



The opening of another college year 

 finds professors and students returning to 

 work, fresh and enthusiastic. 



BIR. G. C. PICHE, Chief Forester of auebeo. 



From this nursery there are sent 

 out, first the trees for the planting 

 of the sand lands in settled districts, 

 which is becoming an important fea- 

 ture of Quebec work; and also the 

 trees furnished to farmers for the 

 planting of their woodlots. These 

 latter are sent out at a nominal cost, 

 and the nursery will be enlarged as 

 rapidly as the demand from these 

 two sources increases. 



TREES. 



I think that I shall never see 

 A poem lovely as a tree. 



A tree whose hungry mouth is prest 

 Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; 



A tree that looks at God all day. 

 And lifts her leafy arms to pray; 



A tree that may in summer wear 

 A nest of robins in her hair; 



Upon whose bosom snow has lain; 

 Who intimately lives with rain. 



Poems are made by fools like me, 

 But onlv God can make a tree. 



JOYCE KILMER. 



While definite information is not yet to 

 hand it is expected that the number of 

 students at the Faculty of Forestry, Uni- 

 versity of Toronto, will be about the same 

 as last year. 



The Quebec school reports a somewhat 

 decreased number of students this year, 

 owing to higher standard for entrance. 

 The wisdom of so raising the standard, 

 however, will certainly be shown in future 

 years. Mr. G. C. Piche, the Director, 

 writes: — 



The Forest School of Quebec has re- 

 opened with a new class of nine students, 

 of whom three are Bachelors of Arts. The 

 direction having raised the standard of 

 the examinations for entrance, very few 

 candidates were able to satisfy the new 

 requirements, hence the diminution in the 

 number of new students; yet the number 

 in attendance, comprising the other class- 

 es, will be about thirty-five. 



Prof. R. B. Miller, of the Forestry De- 

 partment, of the University of New Bruns- 

 wick writes: We have about thirty-five 

 students enrolled in forestry, viz., four 

 Seniors, five Juniors, fifteen Sophomores, 

 and eleven Freshmen. Out of a Fresh- 

 man class of thirty-six in the University, 

 eleven enrolled for the forestry course. The 

 men returning from the West are full of 

 enthusiasm and new plans to be carried 

 out, and this promises to be a very suc- 

 cessful year. Among the new lines which 

 will be attempted will be a small lumber- 

 ing operation on the college lands, the 

 building of three miles of telephone line 

 to the camp, the making of trails and 

 roads, a continuance of the work in estim- 

 ating on the college lands, with a rough 

 working plan for the same, a topographic 

 survey of the college grounds b}' the Sen- 

 iors and, possibly, a new course in forest 

 entomology given by the Provincial En- 

 tomologist. The woods are in fine condi- 

 tion this fall, as there has not been much 

 rain, and until cold weather a large 

 amount of field-work will be carried 

 through. The cutting of cordwood and 

 logs will allow a further chance for work 

 in the winter months. The Seniors have 

 been assigne<l the new Victoria Mills of 

 Donald Fraser and Sons, Limited, upon 

 which they are to make a report. This 

 mill is equipped with a double-cutting 

 band-saw and all the modern appliances 

 for manufacturing lumber, lath and 

 shingles. 



