Courses in Forestry 



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 about twelve acres. 



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

 provision is to be made for (1) 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 the various methods of 

 propogating different kinds of timber, to the raising of particular 

 forest products, and to other practical purposes. These experiments 

 are carried on in co-oparation with the U. S. Forest Service. 



Through t'.ie kindness especially of the Lufkin Rule Company 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 woodman's tools has been 

 added to the equipment of the school. 



A large collection of photographs presented by President J. D. 

 Hawks of the D. & M. Ry., and containing probably the most com- 

 plete set of views of Michigan lumbering, forms one of the most 

 valuable additions to the forestry library. 



A representative set o'f lantern slides and a good lantern furnish 

 .the necessary illustrations in all courses. The Michigan Forest Re- 

 serve where the summer field course is to be given comprises about 

 40,000 acres of forest and cut-over lands in Roscommon and Craw- 

 ford counties, about 140 miles north of Ann Arbor. It contains a 

 great variety of forest conditions, extensive plantations, a large nur- 

 sery and full equipment for work. 



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, in the United States the student 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 

 lands, and the improvement of badly mismanaged wood-lots, 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 im- 

 proved, and the people -of the district to be convinced of the useful' 



