1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



103 



to prepare and distribute abstracts of 

 the forest laws, and appoint fire war- 

 dens for as many districts as he may 

 see fit to divide the State. Penalties 

 are prescribed for the violation of the 

 provisions of the act, and the district 

 attorneys directed to prosecute vigor- 

 ously all such violations. The penalty 

 for wilfully, maliciously and negli- 

 gently setting forest fires is put at 

 not less than $50, or more than $1,000. 

 An appliance to prevent the escape of 

 sparks is required on all engines and 

 boilers operating in or near forests, 

 brush, or grass land, and the State For- 

 ester is directed to see that country 

 roads in various counties are cleared 

 of inflammable material. An appro- 

 priation of $17,600 was made for car- 

 rying out the provisions of this act, 

 and a section provides that the moneys 

 received as penalties of violations shall 

 be paid into the treasury as a State 

 forestry fund. 



Formal announcement 

 Yale Summer , , , r , i 



o-v,! has been made of the 



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fifth annual session of 

 the Yale Summer School of Forestry, 

 which will open July 5, 1905, and close 

 August 1 7th. The course is designed 

 for students who are considering for- 

 estry as a profession, for young men 

 about to enter tb : lumber business, 

 for teachers of botany and nature 

 study, for forest rangers, for wood- 

 land owners, and for all other persons 

 desiring to spend a summer out of 

 doors and to obtain a general knowl- 

 edge of forestry. The course is of 

 great assistance to those who after- 

 wards enter an advanced forest school. 

 Full information can be had by ad- 

 dressing Professor Henry S. Graves, 

 Xew Haven, Conn. 



Forestry at Uni- The Department of 

 versity of Neb- Forestry in the Uni- 

 raska> versity of Nebraska 



reports good progress for the present 

 year. Plans were recently completed 

 whereby forestry is given a permanent 

 place in the curriculum of the School 

 of Agriculture, and a course of several 

 lectures on farm forestry is being giv- 



en there this semester. In all, some 

 sixty students have been brought un- 

 der instruction in forestry this year. 

 Of this number about twenty are pre- 

 paring for the profession. Two men 

 expect to graduate from the forestry 

 course in June. 



So far as time would permit, the 

 department has been represented in 

 the farmers' institute work in the 

 State, and as a result the number of 

 applications for assistance in forest 

 planting and in managing woodlots 

 is increasing. A plan for planting 

 jack pine in the sand hills was recent- 

 ly prepared, and fifteen copies were 

 mailed to applicants in February. 



At the beginning of the school year, 

 the students of the department or- 

 ganized the University of Nebraska 

 Forest Club. This organization meets 

 every two weeks. 



Mr. Charles H. Paul, 

 Reclamation r -ni M j i 1 1 



Service Notes. of Philadelphia, has 

 received an appoint- 

 ment as engineer in the U. S. Recla- 

 mation Service, and has been assigned 

 to duty in connection with the Ft. 

 Buford project. South Dakota. Mr. 

 Paul graduated from the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technologv with the 

 degree of C. i,., and was engaged for 

 several years with the State Board of 

 Health, and the Metropolitan Water 

 Board, of Boston. Since 1900 he has 

 been engaged on construction work in 

 connection with filters and reservoirs 

 in Philadelphia. 



Mr. James L. Lytel, irrigation en- 

 gineer, who has been engaged for the 

 past nine months at Montrose, Colo., 

 in connection with the Uncompahgre 

 Yalley project, has received a perma- 

 nent appointment under the Reclama- 

 tion Service. 



Mr. John L. Mann, of New Hamp- 

 shire, has received an appointment as 

 assistant engineer in the Reclamation 

 Service. He has been assigned to duty 

 under the Belle Fotirche project, in 

 South Dakota. 



The following assignments have 

 been made by Director Walcott, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, in connection 



