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son and the giving of as many illustrated lectures is only a 

 part of the extension activities. The worker who visits a high 

 school is always ready for a field excursion with the biology 

 classes or with some of the older pupils. The man who goes 

 into a county to help the local farm bureau or a number of 

 granges expects to conduct a demonstration for some neigh- 

 borhood in timber estimating, marking, planting or timber 

 treating. The forester in charge of an exhibit at the state 

 fair or county fair must be prepared to answer questions 

 ranging from "How do you control the elm leaf miner?" to 

 "How expensive may my landbe to guarantee a fair return 

 from planting red pine?" In the office a forester in this de- 

 partment may find himself called upon to outline a season's 

 reading course with suggestive questions for a Woman's Club, 

 to get out material for a high school debate on some angle 

 of the forestry question, to get up an exhibit for an agri- 

 cultural high school or to write a magazine article or a press 

 bulletin on some producing or marketing phase of the busi- 

 ness. 



Some of the more interesting extension activities outside 

 of lecture work are the maintenance of a wood utilization 

 service whereby the users of timber and mill waste are brought 

 into communication with the producers by means of a monthly 

 bulletin made up from inquiries sent in to the College ; the su- 

 pervision on Arbor Day of the planting of a thousand or more 

 trees by various high schools on city watersheds or pieces of 

 waste land secured for the purpose of a school forest, the 

 placing of a wood collection of some 30 hand specimens of 

 commercial species, in the schools of the state, the manage- 

 ment of a few small libraries of forestry books and bulletins 

 gotten together for lending to schools and public libraries 

 throughout the state, and the conducting of a correspon- 

 dence course in "Lumber and Its Uses." 



A certain amount of help along the line of improvement of 

 shade tree conditions and so-called "City Forestry" has been 

 demanded of the college and one man gives all of his time to 

 extension work in this line. A good many cities and villages 

 have been stirred to action by means of a survey of shade tree 

 conditions, a tree census by the school children and a public 



