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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



material in art and industry, will form the 

 subject-matter of the course to be given the 

 second half of the first semester. 



Hardwood and softwood will be studied 

 and compared as to their use in distilling 

 alcohol and producing turpentine and other 

 materials in a course to be given in the first 

 half of the second semester. All of the basic 

 principles, as well as the processes and prod- 

 ucts of such distillation will be taught, and 

 the students will have an opportunity to make 

 a personal study of the government's in- 

 vestigations in ways and means of using all 

 the waste products of logging, lumbering, and 

 wood manufacturing, amounting altogether to 

 two-thirds of every tree cut down. 



How to save timbers, especially those in 

 mines and on the water front, from animal 

 and fungous pests, will be the problem on 

 which a course in wood preservatives will 

 work. The students will compare the resist- 

 ance of different woods, their fibers and the 

 conditions of deterioration, and will be 

 shown the different preservative processes 

 in the laboratory, including both those in 

 which the timbers are given surface appli- 

 cations and those in which the aseptics are 

 forced into the fibers. 



All the machinery and methods used in 

 logging and in wood manufacture with the 

 designing of woodworking plants, will be 

 taught by Professor McKeown during the sec- 

 ond semester in his course on wood manu- 

 facturing machinery. 



In addition, advanced research work may 

 be done by students who are prepared for it 

 in the government laboratory under the su- 

 pervision of the experts in charge. 



Michigan Agricultural College 



The summer forestry school opened on the 

 28th of June and closes on the nth of Au 

 gust. The session is held at Cold Springs 

 on the shores of Higgins Lake, and is con 

 ducted in cooperation with the Public Do- 

 main Commission. The state forest reserve 

 of 38,000 acres, timbered with jack pine 

 Norway pine, white pine, scrub oak, anc 

 white cedar, is located here, -and it is upor 

 this that the students will work. 



This summer term is required work foi 

 junior foresters. Two courses will be given 

 one in surveying methods and one in fores 

 mensuration. These courses are not com 

 plete in themselves, but are followed by ad 

 vanced work during the remaining terms o: 

 the junior and senior years. Each cours< 

 entitles the student to five college credits 

 The program provides for one lecture houi 

 and eight hours of field work each day. AT 

 hour will be given to target practice, swim- 

 ming, and boating. The mail address i; 

 Roscommon, care of M. A. C. Forestry Camp 



Washington State Agricultural College 



C. H. Goetz, who has been for two year: 

 teacher of forestry at this institution, ha; 

 resigned his position. During the summei 

 he will be in the employ of the Washingtor 

 State Fire Association in its work of protect 

 ing the forests of Washington against fire 

 Ten or more men have gone out of this in- 

 stitution since Mr. Goetz took charge of it; 

 forestry work and are now in the Unitec 

 States and other forestry work. 



