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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



June 



tered by persons entitled to make entry 

 thereof , and no person shall be permitted 

 to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of 

 said lands, except as prescribed in such 

 proclamation, until after the expiration 

 of sixty days from the time when the 

 same are opened to settlement and 

 entry." 



This provision of law is clear and spe- 

 cific as to the time when prospective set- 

 tlers may go upon said ceded lands, and 

 all prospective settlers are therefore 

 warned not to go thereon, under any 

 circumstances, prior to the date hereafter 

 to be fixed and determined. Any person 

 violating this provision of law will be 

 dealt with as a trespasser, in accordance 

 with the statutes of the United States 

 applicable thereto. No prior rights can 

 be acquired by persons going upon the 

 lands in advance of the date fixed, and 

 when the same come to be opened no 

 preference will be given to such illegal 

 entry men, regardless of any previous 

 settlement or location ; on the contrary, 

 their trespass is liable to work to their 

 disadvantage when the lands are actu- 

 ally opened. 



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Work of The Senior Class of the 



Yale Seniors. Yale Forest School is at 

 Milford, Pennsylvania, 

 for the concluding months of the course, 

 in accordance with the regular plan of 

 the school. The students have been 

 hearing lectures and taking practical 

 work in forest mapping from Mr. Austin 

 Gary, of Maine, and in fish culture and 

 game preservation from Dr. Barton W. 

 Everman, of the Fish Commission, in 

 addition to the continuation of the regu- 

 lar courses. The object of moving the 

 work in the spring to Milford, which is 

 the site of the Yale Summer School of 

 Forestry, is to afford opportunity for 

 field work, which could not be carried 

 out so effectively at New Haven. 



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Dr. Rothrock Readers of FORESTRY 

 Resigns. AND IRRIGATION will 



regret to learn that 

 owing to ill health Dr. J. T. Rothrock 

 has tendered his resignation to Gov- 

 ernor Pennypacker as State Forestry 

 Commissioner of Pennsylvania. 



The resignation was immediately ac- 

 cepted, and Robert S. Conklin, of Co- 

 lumbia, was appointed Commissioner. 

 Mr. Conklin is the present Deputy Com- 

 missioner, and he has been actively con- 

 nected with the state forestry work in 

 Pennsylvania for several years. 



Dr. Rothrock has been the leader of 

 forest movement in Pennsylvania, and 

 has been connected with the Forestry 

 Commission since it was created. He 

 has served as Forestry Commissioner 

 under four governors, and to his unusual 

 devotion to duty much of the state's ad- 

 vance in forest matters is directly trace- 

 able. 



An English Some insight into Eng- 

 Forest School, lish methods of forestry 

 education is obtainable 

 from the following account of Dean For- 

 est School, reprinted from the London 

 Leader : 



' ' The school of forestry started by 

 the Commissioners of Woods and For- 

 ests at Coleford, in the Forest of Dean, 

 is proving a great success. 



" When the Departmental Committee 

 appointed by the Board of Agriculture 

 to inquire into the state of British for- 

 estry reported at the end of 1902, the 

 Commissioners of Woods and Forests 

 took up the question of education for for- 

 esters and woodmen. 



' ' The claims of the Forest of Dean 

 had been strongly urged by Sir Charles 

 Dilke, the member for the division, as 

 against Alice Holt Woods in Hamp- 

 shire, and the Commissioners chose 

 Dean Forest for a school. It had the 

 additional advantage of having been 

 worked for the last six years under a 

 scientific plan prepared by the late Mr. 

 Hill, head of the Indian Forest Depart- 

 ment. 



' 'Class-room accommodation was found 

 at the Crown offices at Coleford for 20 

 students, and the services of Mr. C. D. 

 Hanson, of the Indian Forest Depart- 

 ment, were obtained as instructor. It 

 was decided to start with a small class 

 only at first, and the school was opened 

 in January last with 9 students. The 

 first three months' working is consid- 

 ered very satisfactory. 



