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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



Summer School, this term opens July i , 

 but it continues thirteen weeks, instead 

 of seven. The presence of the Juniors 

 not only doubles the number of men in 

 camp, with consequent quickening of 

 general activity and friendly rivalry in 

 both scholarly and athletic attainments, 

 but it brings the Summer School stu- 

 dents in contact with those who are 



SAWKILL SWIMMING POOLS. 



entering the profession of forestry and 

 who for the most part have seen a great 

 deal of life in the open. 



Professor Graves was very busy, di- 

 recting the studies of the Juniors, pre- 

 paring manuscripts relative to forestry, 

 and conducting the correspondence con- 

 nected with the administration of the 

 school. He was ably assisted by Mr. 



Carter, instructor in forestry, and by 

 Mrs. Miller, secretary and librarian. 



Part of the work of the Junior class 

 the past summer was the felling of pitch 

 pine on the Kinkel estate. Data were 

 at the same time secured for a mono- 

 graph on pitch pine, similar to that 

 prepared in part in the same vicinity 

 some years ago for white pine. More 

 figures will probably be 

 secured by similar treat- 

 ment of a tract of 70 acres 

 bought by Mr. Pinchot. 



The forest of the Pinchot 

 estate was divided intc 

 squares by the Senior class 

 of the Yale School in theii 

 surveying last spring. 

 These squares will assist 

 in locating sample plots or 

 which to make periodicall} 

 measurements of growth. 

 On the white pine slope be 

 tween the garden and the 

 Sawkill River bridge eacr 

 tree of the different species 

 has been numbered anc 

 otherwise marked with rec 

 paint for identification 

 This is the first of a numbei 

 of permanent plots to b( 

 established here and ir 

 other representative re 

 gions. 



It was a red-letter da) 

 for the cause of forest edu 

 cation when Mr. James W 

 Pinchot gave the Yale For 

 est School a summer horn* 

 on his estate at Milford 

 The people of the villag* 

 welcomed its coming, anc 

 have watched with mucl 

 satisfaction the erection o 

 the club house, Junior hall 

 and dining hall, whicl 

 now house the school. Ii 

 the village a stone building is beinj 

 erected by Mr. Gifford Pinchot, to b 

 known as Forest Hall. This will b 

 used for the illustrated lectures, whicl 

 are open to the public. 



LOCAL INFLUENCE OF THE SCHOOL. 



Along the Delaware River the de 

 structive effects of the March floods an 



