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

 future task. A few hours' ride by railroad suffices to reach the 

 pineries of the Southern Peninsula, the home of the famous Mich- 

 igan pine, where cat-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. 



Special facilities for the study of forestry are supplied 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, includ- 

 ing slopes with various exposures, a small swamp area, and a 

 lake from ten to fifty feet deep covering 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. 



A large area of other lands in the vicinity of Ann Arbor has 

 been placed under the management of the Forestry School. Parts of 

 these lands are wooded and offer opportunity for a variety of work 

 in mensuration and silviculture. Considerable portions of these 

 lands are old fields which are being planted to forest at the rate of 

 over one hundred acres per year. 



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. Ground is also provided in this garden for 

 exact silvirultural experiments. 



In the forestry laboratory students receive instruction in forest 

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

 wood technology, as well as in forest measurement and methods of 

 study of the growth of timber. A good collection of wood speci- 

 mens, sections of trees, and herbarium material is provided. There 

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

 measures, and other apparatus for use in the laboratory and in the 

 field. 



