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heavy clay to sandy gravel. Its topography is varied, including 

 slopes with various exposures, a small swamp area and a deep lake 

 covering an area of about twelve acres. 



A forest nursery and over fifty distinct forest plantations serve 

 to illustrate the results of the various m'ethods employed in forest 

 nursery practice and in the making of forest plantations. They also 

 give opportunity to carry on special experiments in the care of these 

 many young stands of forest trees. 



A special nursery for the propagation of forest trees, within ten 

 minutes' walk of the campus, has been developed. This nursery 

 is equipped to demonstrate certain phases of silvicultural work 

 and the methods of commercial nursery practice from the prepar- 

 ation of the seed beds to the packing for shipment of the mature 

 seedling. Quarters are provided on the grounds for the proper 

 accommodation of students working in the nursery and for the de- 

 tailed study of nursery work and investigation. 



A privately owned area of fifteen hundred acres, including sev- 

 eral watersheds which the owners desire to protect by keeping the 

 watersheds forested, has been placed under the management of the 

 department of Forestry. These tracts lie in the immediate vicinity 

 of Ann Arbor and include some five hundred acres now in timber 

 and eight hundred acres of old fields which are being reforested at 

 the rate of over a hundred acres a year. In the management of 

 these tracts the student has every opportunity to become familiar 

 with protective watershed work and reforestation on a large scale. 



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 alt useful forest trees that can be grown 

 in this climate. 



In the forestry laboratories students receive instruction in forest 

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

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

 of study of the growth of timber. Working collections are provided 

 which include specimens of cones and other forest tree fruits and 

 seeds, specimens of commercial woods, sections of trees and herb- 

 arium specimens of the important American forest trees. There is an 

 ample supply of microscopes, compasses, calipers, height measures and 

 other apparatus for volume and growth studies of forests. 



A greenhouse is provided with the necessary equipment for 

 seed germination and experimental work on seedling growth. Test- 

 ing machinery for strength and resistance of wood and for other 

 studies of the physical properties of timber is provided and other 

 special machinery is being installed. 



The forestry library contains over eight hundred volumes and 

 is steadily growing. Files containing large amounts of unbound 

 literature are made available to the research student by a simple 

 card index system. The principal forestry periodicals and a number 



