FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



February 



State to the value of forestry, and the 

 ultimate appointment of a State For- 

 ester, in accordance with the practice 

 already established in Georgia, Mary- 

 land, and many other States. 



n , , Colorado College has 



Professor of n j u \ iir- i 



Forestry called Hugo A. Winken- 



werder, of the Forest 

 Service, to take the chair of forestry, 

 formerly held by Prof. J. Fred Baker, 

 and vacated by his removal to the Ag- 

 ricultural College of Michigan. Mr. 

 Winkenwerder has accepted the posi- 

 tion. Mr. Winkenwerder is a grad- 

 uate of the Yale Forest School, and 

 has been in charge of the section of 

 education in the Forest Service. He 

 is the author of the recently published 

 circular on forestry in the public 

 schools. 



Professor 

 Scott 

 of Iowa 



At a recent meeting of 



the Board of Trustees of 

 the Iowa State College, 

 Mr. C. A. Scott of the United States 

 Forest Service was elected to the chair 

 of forestry to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the resignation of Professor H. P. 

 Baker. Mr. Scott is a graduate of the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College and 

 was a student of the Yale Forest 

 School. Mr. Scott has been continu- 

 ously in the employment of the Forest 

 Service since graduation, and during 

 this period of seven years has grad- 

 ually advanced through all stages from 

 student assistant to forest super- 

 visor. 



His work has been largely confined 

 to the Middle West and the Rocky 

 Mn-.mtain States; hence he has the ad- 

 vantage of being familiar with the for- 

 estry conditions of the Upper Missis- 

 sippi Valley. Since their origin he 

 has had charge of the extensive for- 

 est nurseries and plantings of the Dis- 

 mal River National Forest. During 

 the past three years he has given a spe- 

 cial course of lectures before the Ne- 

 braska University forestry students. 



As a suggestion which 

 may be helpful to other 

 colleges in planning for 

 the summer school work for next year, 



Summer 

 School of 

 Forestry 



the following account of work at An- 

 tioch College is given. The work is 

 conducted by Prof. J. J. Crumley. It 

 is outside of his regular department, 

 which is Latin, but he is an enthus- 

 iastic forestry student, and is a collab- 

 orator of the State Experiment Sta- 

 tion. 



At the opening of the summer school 

 at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, 

 Ohio, Professor Crumley noticed an 

 interest manifested in the subject of 

 forestry, and organized a class, in 

 which the interest increased as time 

 went on. 



They began with an external study 

 of the trees on the college campus, 

 about fifty varieties. Neighboring 

 groves of catalpa and black locust 

 gave opportunity for practical study ; 

 also a nursery of several thousand 

 seedlings on the college grounds. The 

 course ended with a minute ex- 

 amination of fences in the vicinity, 

 bringing out the comparative durabil- 

 ity of post timbers. They also studied 

 the relative value of posts taken from 

 different parts of the tree, the man- 

 ner of setting, and the like. To the 

 outdoor excursions visitors were invit- 

 ed. These were largely attended and 

 were a very interesting feature. 



Some of the members of the class 

 said at the close of the term that they 

 were going to continue the work in 

 their home vicinities. The time has 

 come when the teachers who attend 

 summer schools are anxious to know 

 more about trees, and this kind of 

 work is a very practical method of 

 awakening public interest in the sub- 

 ject of forestry. 



Massachusetts The Massachusetts Ag- 

 Agricultural r i cu i tu ral College, at 

 ge Amherst, has arranged a 



four years' undergraduate course in 

 forestry. The work includes the fol- 

 lowing sections : 



1. Nursery practice, dealing with 

 the propagation, growing and trans- 

 planting of all sorts of trees. 



2. Pruning. 



