1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



75 



land by means of a hand plow, plant- 

 ing, and weeding the seed bed during 

 the summer. About five hundred 

 seedling oaks, walnuts and Kentucky 

 coffee trees are ready to be trans- 

 planted to nursery rows this coming 

 spring. Bulletin 29 of the Bureau of 

 Forestry is the text-book followed in 

 this work. Lectures are given on tur- 

 pentine orcharding, the wood pulp in- 

 dustry, lumbering in various parts of 

 our country, destructive lumbering, 

 forest reserves, forest schools and the 

 work of the Bureau of Forestrv, il- 



all the changes that take place. This 

 work is repeated in the second grade 

 and again in the third. 



Correlation of this work with the 

 geography of any grade is accom- 

 plished whenever possible. The story 

 of a pine board, life in a lumber camp, 

 past and present methods of obtaining 

 turpentine, the relation of forests to 

 water supply, are familiar facts to a 

 sixth grade boy in Washington. 



The Forest Congress did well to 

 suggest this instruction in the elemen- 

 tary schools. When the day comes, 



Portion of class at work planting seed. 



lustrated by slides loaned by the Bu- 

 reau. 



The effect of this is felt in the city 

 schools. The graduates of the Nor- 

 mal School are appointed to teach in 

 the first grade. Among the first les- 

 sons they give to the little ones is one 

 on the trees immediately in front of 

 their respective school buildings, fol- 

 lowed by others in the neighborhood. 

 The children watch these trees 

 throughout the school year, noting 



as it must come, that the training of 

 the public schools will fit a boy for 

 the vital problems of living, the train- 

 ing of the future forester will begin 

 with his first years in school. The 

 popular knowledge thus spread by the 

 graded schools among the masses will 

 rapidly accomplish the purpose of the 

 Congress. This, too, establishes the 

 place, and a very valuable place, of 

 woman in forestry that of the 

 (earlier. 



