Facilities for instruction 



In the training of men for the work of improving our forests 

 and woodlands, the general conditions of our country and the 

 consequent needs of the men will form the principal guide in 

 shaping the courses of study and the method of presenting them. 



FACILITIES FOR INSTRUCTION 



By referring to the University Calendar for 1908-9 it will 

 be seen that facilities for pursuing the fundamental and accessory 

 studies of language, mathematics, physics, chemistry, botany, 

 zoology, geology, mineralogy, engineering, law, etc., are amply 

 provided. 



For field work the vicinity of Ann Arbor offers the best of 

 opportunities. Convenient rural street car systems take the stu- 

 dent, at very moderate cost, to a variety of hardwood and swamp 

 forests, where all conditions from the virgin woods to the 

 ''slash" are met with, and where study of the results of good 

 and bad work is well calculated to prepare the student for his 

 future task. In addition, a few hours' ride by railroad suffices 

 to reach the pineries of the Southern Peninsula, the home 

 of the famous Michigan pine, where cut-over lands, dotted 

 here and there by tracts of good pine, and occasionally by 

 patches of second growth, present the many conditions of the 

 great problem of reforestation and offer reliable hints for future 

 management. 



Certain special facilities for the study of forestry are sup- 

 plied by the Saginaw Forest Farm, a tract of land about two 

 miles 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 sample of the low hilly land of the drift 

 district. Its soils vary from heavy clay to sandy gravel. Its 

 topography is varied, including slopes with various exposures, a 

 small swamp area, and a lake .from ten to fifty feet deep cover- 

 ing an area of about twelve acres. The farm serves as an object 

 lesson in forest plantations and in nursery work. Upon it there 

 are: (1) a forest nursery; (2) model plantations of forest trees; 

 (3) special experiments in forestry, relating to the various 

 methods of propagating different kinds of timber, to the raising 

 of particular forest products, and to other practical purposes. 

 Fifty plantations have been established on this tract. 



Within fifteen minutes' walk of the campus is the University 

 Botanical Garden and Arboretum, a tract of about ninety acres 

 which is being rapidly developed. This will include, among many 

 other features, an arboretum of all useful forest trees that can 

 be grown in this climate. 



In the forestry laboratory students receive instruction in 

 forest botany, timber physics, structure of woods, and certain 



