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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



cies, both native and exotic, in the nur- 

 sery and plantation of the Forest Ex- 

 periment Station, situated just east of 

 the large walled garden at Grey Towers. 



THE DAY'S WORK. 



The Summer School of 1904 was at- 

 tended by representatives of prominent 

 scientific schools and colleges and by 

 other men who, in their employments, 

 found the urgent need of a more prac- 

 tical and accurate knowledge of the 

 woods. There was no more earnest 

 pupil than a retired physician, who 

 wished to become his own forester on 

 his timber tracts in southern New Jer- 

 sey and western Massachusetts. Those 

 with whom the writer talked had read 

 Schlich's Manual of Forestry or other 

 literature dealing with forest problems, 

 but no amount of text-book study could 

 compare in results with the first-hand 

 knowledge obtainable through the field 

 instruction combined with lectures, 

 which constitutes the method of the 

 Summer School. 



During the past summer Prof. James 

 W. Tourney, director of the Summer 

 School; Mr. Arthur H. Graves, and Mr. 

 Edward E. Carter were continuously 



present, and the classes were so arranged 

 that every hour was well occupied. 



Following the morning lectures at 

 8.30, given in Stone Cottage, a pretty 

 example of Swiss architecture, the 

 classes, accompanied by their profes- 

 sors, take a tramp through the woods to 

 prove by observation the facts they 

 have learned and to do practical work 

 under the eye of the instructor. When 

 Mr. Carter launched the class upon a 

 steep hillside and called on its members 

 to tell, unsupported by any volunteered 

 suggestion, how the instruments by 

 which accurate height measurements 

 are mathematically obtained should be 

 employed, it was amusing to compare 

 the different methods proposed by the 

 tyro foresters. 



No less perplexing were some of the 

 tests in identification of forest species, 

 as when Mr. Arthur Graves in one of his 

 "examinations" pointed out twenty- 

 five trees as he strode through the 

 woods, calling on. the class without 

 collusion to write the common and botan- 

 ical name of each. The list included 

 three trees of widely varying appear- 

 ance, yet of the same species a small 

 red cedar with needle-shaped leaves, 



DINING HALL. 



JUNIOR HALL. 

 THE NEW BUILDINGS. 



CLUB HOUSP;. 



