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five hours per week class-room work and hours per week ; military science (drill) , 

 field practice; German (elementary), three hours per week, 

 five hours per week; zoology (system- The course in forestry at the Michi- 

 atic and economic), five hours per week; gan Agricultural College enjoys the 

 military science (drill), three hours per advantage of having several subjects- 

 week, those that bear on the subject of plant 



Winter term. Forest protection and propagation, plant classification, and 

 regulation, two hours per week class- soils taught in the departments of 

 room work, first half of term ; forestry agriculture, horticulture, and botany, 

 (diseases of trees) , two hours per week During their course, students sit under 

 class-room work, second half of term ; the instruction of nearly thirty pro- 

 forest investigation, six hours per week fessors and assistants. With the facili- 

 laboratory or field work ; German (ad- ties and opportunities offered at this 

 vanced), five hours per week ; civil en- college, it is expected that the man who 

 gineering (agricultural engineering), completes the course will be well pre- 

 five hours per week ; geology (struct- pared to begin his professional work as 

 ural and historical), five hours per a forester. 



week; military science (drill), three Judging by what it has already done, 



hours per week, last half of term. this new department in the Michigan 



Spring term. Forest investigation, Agricultural College, an institution that 



four hours per week laboratory or field claims the distinction of being the oldest 



work ; forest valuation, three hours per of its class in the country, bids fair to 



week class-room work ; German (ad- uphold the enviable reputation already 



vanced), five hours per week ; geology, sustained by it in all its other depart- 



five hours per week ; meteorology, five ments. 



IRRIGATION PROJECTS FOR WYOMING. 



RECLAMATION SERVICE PLANNING TO 

 RECLAIM 150,000 ACRES OF ARID LAND. 



IN a report recently transmitted to The Shoshone Project contemplates 



the Chief Engineer of the Recla- the utilization of a portion of the sur- 



mation Service by Jeremiah Ahern, plus water of Shoshone River for the 



district engineer, it is stated that it is reclamation of land in the northern 



proposed during the next few months part of Big Horn county, Wyoming, 



to complete the construction of a wagon Shoshone River receives its water from 



road and a telephone line, in connection the high mountains adjacent to and 



with the Shoshone Project ; to make east of the Yellowstone National Park, 



borings at the dam site ; to make designs The North Fork rises near the eastern 



of various structures ; to continue the boundary of the park, a few of its trib- 



location surveys of canal and tunnel utaries having their sources within its 



lines, and topographic surveys of the limits. For the first few miles of its 



irrigable land. course it flows southerly, then easterly 



The wagon road is being constructed for about 45 miles to its junction with 



into the canyon over which to transport the South Fork, which comes from the 



material to the tunnels and dam site, southwest and is of about the same 



The main canal and tunnels are being length as the North Fork, but discharges 



staked out on the ground, and a topo- a smaller quantity of water. Just be- 



graphic survey of additional lands is low the junction of the two forks, Sho- 



under way, and designs and a study shone River enters a canyon 3^ miles 



thereof are being made for an impound- in length. Beginning at the upper end 



ing dam of increased height. of this canyon and for a distance of i*/? 



