1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



491 



Shaw, editor of "The Review of Re- 

 ricivs;" Hon. Whitelaw Reid, and 

 man}- others. 



Indications point to an attendance 

 of i ,000 delegates, and the congress 

 should mark the beginning of an era 

 of a more thorough interest and ap- 

 preciation in practical forestry. 



Yale Forest S ^ ^ *%? rst 



School time the Junior Class 



of the Yale Forest 

 School came together in July at Mil- 

 ford, Penn. Usually the juniors have 

 met in New Haven in September. 

 The purpose of adding a summer term 

 to the Junior year is to give an oppor- 

 tunity for a greater amount of field 

 work in forest mensuration and silvi- 

 culture than was possible under the 

 previous conditions. The summer term 

 opened July i and continued until Sep- 

 tember 10. The experiment was an 

 unqualified success and fully met the 

 anticipations of the officers of the 

 school. Prof. H. S. Graves conducted 

 the work, assisted by Mr. E. E. Car- 

 ter, now Instructor in Forestry in 

 Harvard University. The addition of 

 a summer term to the course at Yale 

 is one of the most important steps 

 taken since the establishment of the 

 school, not only because the efficiency 

 of the courses in forest mensuration 

 and silviculture have been emphati- 

 cally increased, but also because the 

 change has permitted the addition of 

 several new courses and the rearrange- 

 ment of the old courses. The most 

 important new courses are forest en- 

 gineering by Assistant Prof. R. L. 

 Marston, and Physiography by Prof. 

 H. E. Gregory. Some further import- 

 ant changes will be announced in the 

 new catalogue which will be issued in 

 a few weeks. 



The equipment of the Forest School 

 at Milford, Penn., has been very much 

 extended during the past season. A 

 new lecture hall and a permanent din- 

 ing hall and kitchen have been erect- 

 ed through the generosity of Mr. 

 James W. Pinchot and his family ; and 

 the number of tents has been increased 



to nearly fifty. The school now has 

 at Milford a very thorough equipment 

 for the summer work. 



The Summer School of the Uni- 

 versity, which has been conducted at 

 Milford since 1901, held an extremely 

 successful session this year. The stu- 

 dents live in camp with the Juniors of 

 the regular department, but the in- 

 struction is entirely separate. The 

 work was conducted by Prof. J. W. 

 Tourney, assisted by Mr. A. H. 

 Graves, Instructor in the Yale For- 

 est School. Sixteen students were in 

 attendance. 



The total registration at the Yale 

 Forest School this fall is sixty-three, 

 or one less than last year at this time. 



Biltmore 

 Forest School 



The new courses of- 

 fered by this school 

 during the year 1904- 

 1905 comprise a course in denrology, 

 a course in forest entomology, a course 

 in forest pathology, a course in 

 forest zoology, a course in irri- 

 gation and its interdependence 

 with forestry, a course on the forest 

 work conducted by the Federal Gov- 

 ernment. All of these courses are to 

 be given by specialists in the employ 

 of the United States Government at 

 Washington. 



The attendance at the school at the 

 present time is fifteen. Mr. Clifton 

 D. Howe has been appointed assistant 

 forester and instructor in botany. The 

 Biltmore saw mills will work on 

 Avery's Creek during the year. The 

 cutting of tannin wood, of tanbark and 

 of wood for the Asheville market will 

 be conducted in the present year as 

 during the past. A shingle plant will 

 be added to the equipment of the wood 

 splitting mill at Biltmore. 



The nurseries have been increased 

 during the last year and are now 

 stocked with several million pines 

 (white and yellow) and several hun- 

 dred thousand hardwoods. The stock 

 raised in these nurseries will be large- 

 ly used for the reforestation on tin- 

 Bent Creek Estate, near Biltmore, 

 comprising 15,000 acres. 



