vi PREFACE 
No course of study in the form of a series of models 
is presented. It is hardly possible for any two schools 
to follow the same series of models. Local conditions 
necessarily affect the choice of a course, while new and 
better designs are being brought out continuously. 
The order in which the tools are described in the fol- 
lowing pages is the one that has seemed most natural. 
They may be taken up, however, in any convenient and 
logical order. 
It is with the earnest hope that nature study and 
manual work may be closely correlated, that Part II is 
added. No better period can be selected in which to 
study trees, their leaves, bark, wood, etc., than when 
the student is working with wood, learning by experi- 
ence its grain, hardness, color, and value in the arts. 
Occasional talks on the broader topics of forestry, its 
economic aspects, climatic effects, fluence on rainfall, 
the flow of rivers, floods, droughts, etc., will be found 
interesting as well as instructive, and such interest 
should be instilled into every American boy and girl. 
The writer is indebted to the Fish, Forest, and Game 
Commission of New York state for the series of Adiron- 
dack lumbering scenes, and to the United States Bureau 
of Forestry for the views of California Big Trees. 
EDWIN W. FOSTER. 
