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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



AFFILIATION WITH OTHER FORESTRY 

 ASSOCIATIONS. 



While a number of efforts to effect 

 some consolidation of state associa- 

 tions with this Association have been 

 made during- the past year, no practi- 

 cal method of accomplishing this very 

 desirable purpose has been developed, 

 and it is hoped that during this Con- 

 gress, where so many state associa- 

 tions are represented, some plan may 

 be formulated for the establishment of 

 closer relations of state and local for- 

 estry organizations with this Associa- 

 tion. A special committee of this As- 

 sociation is prepared to submit a tenta- 

 tive plan, having this object in view, 

 at a special meeting of those interest- 

 ed, to be held in connection with this 

 Congress. 



THE MAGAZINE. 



In creating an official organ the As- 

 sociation took a wise step. Through 

 our magazine, FORESTRY AND IRRIGA- 

 TION, we are able not only to keep our 

 members in touch with the forestry 

 movement, but it is also valuable in 

 constantly obtaining new members and 

 in widening the sphere of our influ- 

 ence. During the past year 3,000 

 copies per month were issued and reg- 

 ularly sent to all of our members, the 

 surplus being used in obtaining new 

 members and in endeavoring to inter- 

 est others outside of the Association. 

 The total cost to the Association was 

 $3,509-25- 



FOREST SCHOOLS. 



The increase both in the number of 

 forest schools and of the students in 

 attendance is a sure indication of the 

 growing interest in Forestry. The 

 fact that it now offers a career for 

 young men makes certain that the 

 needed men will be trained, and there 

 will be use for the training. 



At the Yale Forest School, now the 

 oldest distinctively forest school since 

 Cornell University abandoned its for- 

 est school, there are sixty-three stu- 

 dents in attendance. These students 

 are also joined at Milford, Pa., by 

 those of the summer school of the uni- 

 versity for practical forest work dur- 

 ing the summer. 



The Harvard Forest School has 

 been doing successful work during 

 this, its second, year. 



At Biltmore, N. C., Dr. Schenck 

 continues his forest school in connec- 

 tion with the Vanderbilt estate, having 

 fifteen students this year. An exten- 

 sive tract, some 15,000 acres, is to be 

 reforested by stock raised on t'v.e es- 

 tate. 



Michigan Agricultural College has 

 fifteen men taking the full forestry 

 course and twenty-three men doing 

 elementary work in forestry in the 

 freshman class; while at the' Univer- 

 sity of Michigan Professor Roth re- 

 ports an increased attendance of for- 

 est students over last year. 



The University of Maine has forty- 

 five undergraduates taking a course in 

 forestry, some of whom intend mak- 

 ing it their profession. 



In the Iowa State College of Agri- 

 culture and Mechanic Arts additional 

 courses have just been established in 

 response to the increased interest in 

 forestry. 



The University of Minnesota now 

 offers a full four-year course in fores- 

 try, with a degree of equal importance 

 to those granted for other sciences by 

 the university. 



By these opportunities, and those 

 furnished in other schools and col- 

 leges, men are being prepared all over 

 the country to take charge of private 

 forest properties, or for government 

 service at home or in the Philippines, 

 where the United States early estab- 

 lished a forest service, or to act as 

 teachers in what is to us a new science 

 and art. 



This necessarily abbreviated review 

 of the forest work of the past year, it 

 seems to us, can have only one impres- 

 sion, and that is, how vigorously this 

 subject has taken hold of our people 

 and how certainly it will grow from 

 year to year. 



What this Association had at first 

 to fight for to obtain any recognition 

 of the necessity for its existence is 

 so well assured that it can now only 

 hasten to its perfect consummation. 



And so we close this report with 

 words of congratulation to our mem- 

 bers for what they have accomplished. 



