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to learn forestry on a broader scale than 

 they can do even in such a field as Biltmore 

 estate offers, but also an opportunity for 

 interesting travel while they are studying. 

 It is understood that Doctor Schenck will 

 retain the name of the Biltmore School of 

 Forestry for his new school. Asheville (N. 

 C.) Citizen. 



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Forestry in Antioch College 



Prof. J. J. Crumley, of Antioch Col- 

 lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio, will give his ' 

 time entirely to forestry in the future, largely 

 with the Ohio State Experiment Station. 

 He reports the growing interest in forestry 

 in his part of the country as very manifest, 

 a half dozen now thinking of the subject 

 where but one did five years ago. Good 

 work is being done among teachers, who 

 prove good listeners, thinkers and workers. 

 Professor Crumley lectured to several hun- 

 dred teachers at Wooster, Ohio, in July. 



Forestry Department of University of New 

 Brunswick 



Last fall witnessed the establishment of a 

 department of forestry in the University of 

 New Brunswick, at Fredericton. 



The course covers four years, the first two 

 paralleling closely the engineering course, 

 with the addition of work in Botany, Forest 

 Botany, and Histology. In the junior year 

 courses are given in Dendrolog3 r , Silvicul- 

 ture, and Forest Mensuration, besides Econ- 

 omics, Road Construction, English, etc., and 

 Zoology. In the fall term there is field work 

 in Surveying, Forest Mensuration, and Silvi- 

 culture. A tract of six square miles near 

 the university serves for practical work, 

 while plenty of room on the college farm is 

 afforded for nursery and seed-bed work in 

 the spring. In the senior year, courses in 

 Lumbering, Technology, etc., will be given. 

 The location of the university on the St. John 

 River affords admirable facilities for study- 

 ing mills and various lumbering operations, 

 driving, rafting, etc. The city of Fredericton 

 offers a gold medal for the best essay or 

 treatise on "Lumbering and Milling Opera- 

 tions on the St. John River System." 



Hon. Chas. E. Oak, manager of the Mira- 

 michi Lumber Company, offers to take four 

 seniors this year into his lumber camps 

 from December to March., paying them wages 

 while there, in order that they may learn 

 the woods end of the business, and the 

 forestry department will give them this prac- 

 tical work even at the sacrifice of theoretical 

 instruction. Four seniors and probaWy eight 

 or ten juniors will take the work this year. 



The prospects for building up a forestry 

 department in the university are good, and 

 the interest in forest preservation through- 

 out the province is encouraging. The stu- 

 dents have organized a forestry club, and are 



very enthusiastic over their work. Nova 

 Sco'tia will make a forest survey of crown 

 lands, and New Brunswick will carry out 

 the provisions of the public domain act, 

 which provides for a survey of their 10,000 

 square miles of crown lands. 



Utilizing Zurich's Experience 



There are in New Hampshire 800,000 acres 

 of land once cultivated, but now abandoned 

 to brush, and the state forestry commission 

 is trying to devise some means to get con- 

 trol of these wastes. If this can be done, 

 the land will be planted in trees, the ex- 

 pense of "taking up" and forestatipn to be 

 met by a long-term bond issue. It is argued 

 that the investment would prove very profit- 

 able thirty or forty years hence. In sup- 

 port of the proposition the example of 

 Zurich, Switzerland, is cited. The people of 

 Zurich some years back, finding themselves 

 without the timber necessary for building 

 and other purposes, took over certain aban- 

 doned and denuded lands and planted them 

 with trees. The former barrens are now 

 among the most valuable assets of the city, 

 yielding as they do a net profit of $15 per 

 acre a year. The Springfield (Mass.) Repub- 

 lican, in discussing the New Hampshire 

 movement, says New Hampshire is not the 

 only state that should consider the question 

 involved. And so say we. The question of 

 making denuded forest areas and barrens 

 vield a revenue is a practical one in Vir- 

 ginia to which it is to be hoped the next 

 general assembly will give earnest attention. 

 Richmond (Va.) Leader. 



Legislation in Minnesota 



Prof. Samuel B. Green has written CON- 

 SERVATION as follows : 



Our legislature passed a new forest-fire 

 law, which is very much superior to our old 

 law. It requires, among other things, the 

 burning of slashings, gives us a patrol sys- 

 tem in dry seasons, and requires county 

 attorneys to prosecute violators of the law, 

 making it a misdemeanor not to do so; it 

 increases the appropriation from $11,000 to 

 $19,000 per year. It passed a bill submit- 

 ting to the people an amendment to the con- 

 stitution whereby one-fifteenth of a mill tax 

 should be used for the support of forestry. 

 This would, under present valuations, bring 

 in about $80,000 per year; but, as the valua- 

 tion is increasing all the time, it will not be 

 long before it will be doubled. A perma- 

 nent appropriation of this kind would be a 

 great thing for forestry, as it would permit 

 of our planning ahead for a long series of 

 years. It established a new reserve of 2,700 

 acres for the University of Minnesota, about 

 two miles from Cloquet, which is one of the 

 most important lumber milling centers of this 

 section. By cooperation with the United 



