TEACHING ELEMENTARY FORESTRY 



Washington Schools Giving Instruction in Forestry in a Way 

 that Should Become Observed Throughout the Country 



BY 

 SUSAN B. SIPE 



Instructor in Botany, Normal School, Washington, D. C. 



A MONG the resolutions adopted by 

 *" the American Forest Congress, 

 held in Washington recently, was the 

 following : That all schools, especially 

 rural, should study forests and tree 

 planting in their effect upon the gen- 

 eral well-being of the nation, and in 



the rural teacher the best lines of de- 

 velopment for the rural child. In all 

 branches of manual training, house- 

 hold economics, and school garden 

 work this has been strongly illus- 

 trated. We now find the city schools 

 encouraging and working out plans 





Normal students stratifying seeds in sand to carry them through the winter. 

 The seeds are collected in the city parks. 



particular upon the wealth and happi- 

 ness of communities through the mod- 

 ification of local climate. 



Strange as it may seem, educational 

 movements that most affect the rural 

 schools originate in city schools. We 

 find the city teacher demonstrating to 



as a forerunner of the larger work 

 that will be done in the future in the 

 for the study of elementary forestry 

 rural school. The beginnings of this 

 work may be seen in Cleveland, Ro- 

 chester, Joliet, 111., and in the Normal 

 School of the District of Columbia. 



