1908 NEWS AND NOTES 



3. Arboriculture, dealing with the polic) of the Natiunal Fo Mi- 

 identification and culture of trees and i^tratioii, th> n of the 

 shrubs, including soil requirements, ininistrativc force, tli 



climatic adaptations, etc. rangers' headquarter.^ r 



4. Tree diseases and tree surgery, bridges, and telephone iinc.s. th 

 An extensive and thorough course in tection of National Forests from 

 modern methods. the sale and cutting of national tim- 



5. Tree insects, their identification, ber, including a di><:i 



habits and methods of control. c.^try methods which have 1 



6. Forestry, covering the fundaraen- l " un<1 a PP n 'cable, the admini.>trat. 

 tal principles of forest management, of * r ^ m * lands aml usc 

 taught by the Massachusetts State within the Rational 

 forester, Prof. F. William Rane. s .P ecial uses of National Forest land 



T , , . . . tor home building and commercial 



7- Landscape gardening, teaching enterprises tree f anti on thc Na _ 



the proper use of trees, shrubs, etc., tiuna | For ' st ^ hand f h f daim 



for the most artistic effects. This is a aml entries under the ? ubHc ]aml 



thorough course covering two full u and - the preparation ] of National 



years, and includes surveying, map- Forest records and accounts . 

 ping, contracting, etc. Supplementary to the lectr, 



To assist the students in their work there will be two hours a week of con- 

 the equipment of the college includes sultation between small groups of 

 large nurseries, a fine arboretum, na- students and the instructor, by which 

 tural forest, drafting rooms, survey- the student will be given first-hand ac- 

 ing instruments, and all necessary im- quaintance with typical administrative 

 plements. There is no charge for cases and methods as in a forest Mi- 

 tuition, pervisor's office. 



In January Dr. Hermann v. >n 



A Class in ,\ ne \v and valuable Schrenk, consulting timber engineer 



MMagemfnt" * addition to the curric- for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa 

 tilum of the Yale Fe Railroad, and supervisor of tim- 

 Forest School is a course of lee- ber preservation for the Chicago, I'.nr- 

 tures to the senior class during the lington and Quincy Railroad, gave, 

 winter term on the National Forests, as in former years, a course oi" 

 which is given by Mr. W. B. Greely, lectures on wood preservation at the 

 a graduate of the Yale Forest School Yale Forest School, 

 in the class of 1904, and now Super- 

 visor of the Sierra (South) National Children Addressing the Ameri- 



Forest. Mr. Greely is a Californian, jgettenment can Civic A " n 



and since graduating from the For- upon the progn 'he 



est School has been in the Govern- civic betterment ni' 



ment service, being one of the first the school children, Mr vin !'. 



technically trained men to be ap- Monlton, of Warren. Ohio. ',-nt 



pointed supervisor of a forest. of thc Woman's Outdoor Art I 



The course will deal almost entire- of the A?sociat ; ; d : 



ly with the actual administration of "' Hir public 



the National holdings of timber and fective work in raiding the <l;iu<' 



range. Its aim will be to give the of manhood and womanhood, but 



students of the school the point of must look to them to '<ild 



view of the administration officer on n ially in the 



the ground, and a grasp of the prin- citi/en<hip. Junior civic lenqV' 



ciples and methods followed in hand- a means to increased trninitv 



ling all of the more important kinds citizenship. Lemons should 



of National Forest business. Four in citizenship so that when th 



lectures will be given weekly on the ent-day i -id girls arc hecnrrc the 



