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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



April 



ing control of the distribution of water 

 for irrigation to the respective states 

 and territories, and the holding of such 

 lands for actual settlers under home- 

 stead entry. 



3. To provide for beginning the con- 

 struction of one or more large reservoirs 

 or diversion works where the results of 

 surveys and examination have shown 

 that vacant public lands can be re- 



claimed, such land, at the conclusion of 

 the work, being thrown open to home- 

 stead entr}' onlj^ with the condition at- 

 tached of actual settlement and cultiva- 

 tion of the ground, final title to pass 

 only when the government has been 

 reimbursed by small annual payments, 

 if necessary, for an amount equivalent 

 to the cost per acre of conserving the 

 water. 



TEACHING FORESTRY AT BEREA COLLEGE. 



By S. C. Mason, 



Professor of Horticulttare and Forestry. 



BEREA COLLEGE is located in 

 south central Kentucky, just out- 

 side of the famous blue-grass region 

 and at the beginning of the picturesque 

 foot-hills or knob country which intro- 

 duces the mountains proper. It is a 

 region of great variety in rock fornia- 



PINUS ECHINATA AND PINTS VIRGINIANA, 42 



YEARS OLD, N.\TURAL RKGENH.RATIUN, 



BEREA COLLEGE FORTCST FRKSICRVE. 



tions, soils, and exposures, and origi- 

 nall}^ was clothed with a mixed hard- 

 wood and coniferous forest growth 

 scarcel}' surpassed for variety of species 

 and quality of timber in any part of the 

 South. 



While the forests convenient to ship- 

 ping points ha /e been severely cut into 

 and the most of the ' ' Poplar ' ' or Eirio- 

 dendron within reach of streams has 

 been run out, much of the heavier tim- 

 ber of excellent quality still remains 

 standing only a few miles back, and 

 almost all kinds of forest operations 

 connected with the utilization of timber 

 may still be found in active progress. 



Such conditions make it possible for 

 the Forest Department at Berea College 

 to combine class-room instruction with 

 field observation and practice within 

 daily reach of the student. F'or the 

 furtherance of this end, as well as to 

 secure an assured timber supply for col- 

 lege use in the future, a tract of over a 

 thousand acres of mountain land has 

 been purchased. The most of this land 

 has been lumbered over, though now 

 well stocked with young growth, while 

 portions still contain old oak and pine 

 of the first quality. 



This tract is being added to from time 

 to time as the means can be secured, 

 for it is believed that at the present low 

 prices of this class of land such endow- 

 ment will, in f uture 3^ears, prove a sound 

 investment, financially as well as edu- 

 cationally. Just here it should be said 



