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FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE 

 OF FORESTRY 



TPHE growing demand for foresters not 

 only in America, but in all parts of the 

 world, has been shown by the engaging 

 of Carrol V. Sweet, a graduate of The 

 Xew York State College of Forestry at 

 Syracuse, for a three year contract in 

 India, for special work involving his spe- 

 cial training in dry kiln engineering begun 

 here and continued as a specialist under 

 the federal service at the Forest Products 

 Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin. In- 

 formation reached Syracuse that Mr. 

 Sweet will receive a salary of upward of 

 $7,200 a year and expenses for himself and 

 family in the Orient. 



Sweet graduated from The New York 

 State College of Forestry in 1917, after tak- 

 ing special work in dry kiln engineering 

 in addition to his required forestry sub- 

 jects, and after the war went to the govern- 

 ment service. The demand for specialists 

 in dry kiln work is shown by the fact 

 that Sweet probably receives nearly three 

 times the salary from his Indian employers 

 that the government was paying him as a 

 forester. 



The securing of Sweet for dry kiln 

 work is of particular interest as it comes 

 just as the College of Forestry is announc- 

 ing a short course beginning March 1 in 

 this particular subject, together with other 

 short courses in timber grading, pulp and 

 paper making, and forestry for boy scout 

 executives and camp directors. 



MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE 



"PDITORS for this year's M. A. C. For- 

 ester have been elected as follows : O. 

 A. Alderman, editor in chief; W. F. Jones 

 and C. F. Martin associate editors. This 

 will be the fifth consecutive year that the 

 forestry club has published this book. Last 

 year's edition appeared in June in spite of 

 the small classes caused by the war and was 

 an evidence of the enthusiasm and hard 

 work of the members of the club. Material 

 is being gotten together for this year's 

 annual and it promises to be a very in- 

 teresting book. 



The forestry club held its annual camp- 

 fire in the fall. The custom was broken 

 by the war for one year, but this fall's 

 campfire equalled any of the earlier one 

 in interest. A large number of students 

 attended. I. V. Anderson acted as toast- 

 master, and an enjoyable evening was 

 passed listening to talks, singing and 

 eating. 



A number of changes are contemplated in 

 the forestry course at the Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College this year. The work in 

 lumbering, forest utilization, mensuration 

 and valuation will be increased and a re- 

 arrangement of certain courses made plac- 

 ing the mensuration work earlier in the 

 course and regrouping the courses. This 

 is being done in order to make the techni- 

 cal work more intensive and at the same 

 time to leave a considerable amount of 

 latitude of electives. 



YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 

 T N many respects the present year can 



be considered one of the most success- 

 ful in the history of the school. The war 

 reduced the annual enrollment to a mini- 

 mum of seventeen for 1917-1918. Three 

 members of the faculty have been em- 

 ployed for the whole or a part of the war 

 period in public service. With the open- 

 ing of the present year the members of 

 the faculty engaged in government work 

 returned, and the number of students in- 

 creased to the normal pre-war basis, the 

 total enrollment to December of this year 

 being thirty-six men, of whom fourteen 

 are now members of the senior class and 

 candidates for the degree of Master of 

 Forestry to be granted June next. The 

 present student body is drawn not only 

 from many states in the Union, but from 

 a number of foreign countries as well. At 

 present four Chinese, three Norwegians, 

 two Brazilians, one Englishman, and one 

 Canadian or a total of eleven foreigners 

 are enrolled. A number of these men are 

 on scholarships granted by their own 

 governments. 



A recent compilation of statistics of the 

 Yale School of Forestry shows that 514 

 students have been enrolled in the regular 

 course and 229 in the short course, a 

 total of 743 who have received instruction. 

 The degree of Master Forester has been 

 granted to 376. 



During the past year the Yale School of 

 Forestry received through a gift a tract of 

 approximately 1,500 acres of mixed hard- 

 woods, some 35 miles from New Haven. 

 A lumbering operation having for its ob- 

 ject the salvage of the dead chestnut was 



