CORRESPONDENCE COURSE IN FORESTRY 



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CORRESPONDENCE COURSE IN FORESTRY 



OXE of the methods used by State Agricultural Col- 

 leges for carrying information to the people is the 

 correspondence course. By many it is considered 

 one of the most effective employed. Thousands of people 

 are reached every year in this way. These courses cover 

 a wide range of subjects relating to agriculture. They 

 are written in a simple manner and frequently revised in 

 order that they will contain the latest ideas and infor- 

 mation on each subject. The object in issuing informa- 

 tion in this way rather than in bulletin form is to make 

 sure that the information sent is carefully read. The 

 correspondence courses are divided into short lessons, 

 each covering a particular subject or problem. Together 

 with each lesson is sent a question paper relating to 

 the text. To answer these questions it is necessary that 

 the text be carefully read. The next lesson in a course 

 is not sent until the questions relating to the previous 

 lesson are answered satisfactorily and returned to the 

 college. 



In the fall of 1914 a correspondence course in Farm 

 P'orestry was issued by the Pennsylvania State College. 

 It has proven one of the most popular courses issued. 

 The first edition of five hundred copies was exhausted 

 within a year. It showed that farmers are interested in 

 the care of their woodlots and eager to secure knowledge 

 as to how woodlots can best be managed. Some of the 

 subjects discussed in the different lessons are: 



The tree, its parts and their uses, the factors influenc- 

 ing the life of trees, starting a woodlot from seed or by 

 planting, how to care for a forest plantation, managing 

 the ordinary farm woodlot, woodlot protection, and esti- 

 mating the woodlot for lumber and cordwood. 



Many of the questions asked in the lessons refer di- 

 rectly to the farm woodlot itself, making it necessary in 

 answering them to visit a woodlot for observation or for 

 taking measurements. Those taking the course in farm 

 forestry are encouraged and urged to ask questions in re- 

 turn, relating to the particular problems they find in their 

 own woodlot. 



FOREST CLUBS MEET 



up at Ithaca, N. Y., in 1914, and the election of the 

 president school for the ensuing year. The University 

 of Washington was chosen as president school to suc- 

 ceed Cornell University. 



The Forestry Clubs of the following universities were 

 represented by delegates at the meeting: Cornell Uni- 

 versity, president school, M. B. Haman ; University of 

 California, A. E. Wieslander; Michigan Agricultural 

 College, E. Hamlin ; University of Michigan, O. L. Love- 

 joy ; Ohio State University, J. D. Sayre ; Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, J. I. Neasmith ; University of Washington, D. H. 

 Clark ; Yale University, G. H. Lentz. The Universities of 

 Idaho and Montana were represented by proxy. 



The phrase "of United States" was struck out because 

 the clubs of forestry schools in Canada have been invited 

 to join the association. 



THE second annual meeting of the Intercollegiate 

 Association of Forestry Clubs was held at Ann 

 Arbor, Mich., recently. The association was 

 formed at Ithaca, N. Y., in 1914, at the time of 

 the conference of forestry schools held in connection with 

 the dedication of the new forestry building, the object 

 of the association being to create interest in scientific 

 forestry and to promote good fellowship among the for- 

 estry students at different schools. 



At the meeting held this year the delegates met in 

 business session and were entertained at a banquet given 

 in their honor by the Forestry Club of the University 

 of Michigan. Included in the business transacted was a 

 complete revision of the preliminary constitution drawn 



IN CHARGE OF YOSEMITE 



SECRETARY LANE has announced the appoint- 

 ment of Washington B. Lewis as supervisor of the 

 Yosemite National Park, California. Mr. Lewis 

 graduated from the Engineering Department of the 

 University of Michigan in 1907 and since that time has 

 been a member of the United States Geological Survey. 

 During the past nine years, in addition to work done in 

 several of the Western States, he was furloughed for 

 survey work with the First and Second National Geo- 

 graphic Society expeditions to Alaska, and, in 1911, 

 went to Argentina where he was engaged for four years 

 in making studies and surveys in connection with the in- 

 vestigation of the industrial possibilities of northern 

 Patagonia for the government of Argentina. 



Mr. Lewis is an associate member of the American 

 Society of Civil Engineers and a member of the Cosmos 

 Club of Washington, D. C. 



CHANGES AT WYMAN'S SCHOOL 



WYMAN'S School of the Woods at Munising, 

 Michigan, has filled the vacancy in its teaching 

 staff by the appointment of Raymond J. Guyer, a 

 graduate of Pennsylvania State College, and by the fur- 

 ther addition of R. R. Fenska, who finished at Yale. 

 Some few changes have been made in the course to 

 bring about even greater practical training. The school 

 will continue to place Forest Engineering and Logging 

 and Milling in the lead with the technical forestry sub- 

 jects and constant practical demonstration and work as 

 a filler for the two practical subjects. 



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