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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



April 



way to aid the Appalachian bill and 

 any other legitimate measure of the 

 same kind. "Broadly speaking," says 

 the Commercial Advertiser, "it is a 

 question of first economic importance 

 to the Nation," and points out that, by 

 deferring the timber famine, it will 

 also help Hawaii. In addition, such an 

 aquisition would be, it concludes, of 

 first importance to the country at 

 large. Would that some statesmen 

 nearer home were as clear sighted as 

 this Hawaiian editor ! 



Kansas The Kansas State Agri- 



Farmers' cultural College, at Man- 



Institute , , ^ 



hattan, has engaged C. 



A. Kupfer of the U. S. Forest Service, 

 for several weeks, to talk to farmers' 

 institutes in western Kansas. This is 

 in addition to the institute work done 

 by the two professors of horticulture 

 and forestry. 



The college has recently issued a 

 practical pamphlet on "Tree Culture," 

 sending it to all the rural district teach- 

 ers of the State and to all members of 

 farmers' institutes. It will be sent free 

 to anyone on application to the Super- 

 intendent of Farmers' Institutes, Kan- 

 sas State Agricultural College, Man- 

 hattan, Kansas. 



Another pamphlet of the same sort 

 issued by the college, especially for 

 teachers, is entitled "Bird Life." 



Short A Short Course in For- 



fnFor e es,r y ' r >' is being held at the 



Colorado Agricultural 

 College, at Fort Collins, commencing 

 Monday, March 16, 1908, and continu- 

 ing for four weeks. The course is un- 

 der the direction of Mr. F. W. Mor- 

 rell, of the Inspector's Office, District 

 No. 2, U. S. Forest Service, assisted 

 by members of the faculty of the Ag- 

 ricultural College and by others from 

 the Forest Service. 



University 

 Lectures 



At the State University 

 of Wisconsin, 185 stu- 

 dents are taking a lec- 

 ture course given- by Mr. E. M. Grif- 

 fith, the'State Forester. Some students 



may take this because they think they 

 will have in it an easy study, but ap- 

 parently the main reason is the in- 

 creased interest in forestry prevailing 

 in Wisconsin, as in other parts of the 

 Union. 



At the University of Nebraska, Mr. 

 Raphael Zon, chief of the Office of Sil- 

 vics, in the Forest Service, has been 

 giving a series of lectures on forest 

 types, problems, and conditions. Mr. 

 Zon's alma mater is the University of 

 St. Petersburg, Russia. 



Forestry at Mr. W. R. Eastman, un- 

 Wmona til recent i y connected 



with the Maryland Agri- 

 cultural College, has gone to be pro- 

 fessor of forestry at the Winona Agri- 

 cultural Institute, at Winona Lake. 

 Indiana. 



Industrial Congressman C. R. 

 |?J| o1 Davis, of Minnesota, 



feels greatly encouraged 

 concerning the passage, in the near 

 future, of his industrial high school 

 bill. It has received numerous in- 

 dorsements from leading American 

 educators, has been the object of 

 favorable resolutions from educational 

 organizations, farmers' associations, 

 State colleges, commercial organiza- 

 tions, boards of trade, manufacturers' 

 organizations, and industrial organi- 

 zations generally throughout the coun- 

 try. President Roosevelt is strongly 

 for this bill. It is in line with his 

 Keokuk speech of October last, in 

 which he said : 



"We should strive in every way to 

 aid in the education of the farmer for 

 the farm, and should shape our school 

 system with this end in view; and so 

 vitally important is this that, in my 

 opinion, the Federal government 

 should co-operate with the State gov- 

 ernments to secure the needed change 

 and improvement in our schools. At 

 present there is a gap between our 

 primary schools in country and city 

 which must be closed, and, if neces- 

 sary, the Nation must help the State 

 to close it. Too often our present 



