Courses in Forestry 



and the methods of study of the growth of timber. A good col- 

 lection of wood specimens, sections of trees, and herbarium 

 material is provided and will be increased as rapidly as possible. 

 There is an ample supply of microscopes, compasses, calipers, 

 height measures, and other apparatus for use in the laboratory 

 and in the field. 



Through the kindness especially of the Lufkin Rule Com- 

 pany of Saginaw; E. C. Atkins & Co., manufacturers of the 

 famous Atkins saws ; the Champion Tool & Handle Works of. 

 Evart, Mich., and others, a very ample and select set of woods- 

 man's tools have been added to the equipment of the school. 



A large album, presented by President J. D. Hawks of the 

 D. & M. Ry., and containing probably the most complete set of 

 photographic views of Michigan lumbering, forms one of the 

 most valuable additions to the forestry library. This latter, 

 already of much value as a school library, is steadily growing, a 

 regular department fund having been allowed for its increase. 



Certain special facilities for the study of forestry are supplied 

 by the Saginaw Forest Farm, a tract of land about one mile west 

 of the city of Ann Arbor, presented to the University by Hon. 

 Arthur Hill, of Saginaw The farm comprises eighty acres, and 

 is a typical example of the low hilly land of the drift district, and 

 contains as great a variety of topographical and soil conditions 

 as could be expected in an area of this extent. Its soils vary 

 from heavy clay to sandy gravel, and, in addition to its other 

 good features, has a lake of clear water, from ten to fifty feet 

 deep and covering an area of twelve acres. 



The farm is to serve as an object lesson in forestry. Upon 

 it provision is to be made for (i) an arboretum of all useful 

 forest trees that can grow in Michigan; (2) demonstration areas 

 for seed-bed and nursery work; (3) model plantations of forest 

 trees, and (4) special experiments in forestry, relating to various 

 methods of propagating different kinds of timber, to the raising 

 of particular forest products, and to other practical purposes. 



The absence of any well-regulated forests, similar to those 

 of many European countries, might be regarded as a serious 

 drawback in the educational facilities, since such woods represent 

 the goal to be attained. However, the student here prepares 

 himself for a task quite different from that of managing a forest 

 as a superior officer, with the woods, the market, the forest 

 officers and laborers all completely and permanently organized 

 and prepared. His duty will largely be that of caring for wild 

 woods, for cut- and burned-over pinery lands, and the improve- 

 ment of badly mismanaged woodlots, where everything is new, 

 everything yet to be done, the forest to be made, the help to be 

 organized and trained, the market to be sought and improved, 

 and the people of the district to be convinced of the usefulness 

 of the forest and the necessity of its proper protection. For 

 these reasons it is believed that the field-work under the very 



