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In general, at least four weeks will be devoted to silviculture, three weeks to 

 forest mensuration, and three weeks to survey, subdividing, laying out of roads, 

 building of bridges, culverts, etc. The senior students will for most of the time be 

 occupied with their theses, which will consist in the complete survey, subdivision, 

 description, stock-taking and making of a working plan for a tract set aside for the 

 purpose. 



For the junior students, as far as weather conditions may permit, the ten weeks 

 of the term will be tentatively divided as follows : 



First week : Visits to logging camps, river drives, maple orchards, sawmills and 

 other kinds of operations exhibiting forest exploitation, and measurement of logs 

 and cordwood. 



Secoi<,d week : Improvement cuttings. Each student will be expected to perform, 

 under competent guidance, the operations required in such cuttings, especially the 

 freeing of conifers and the marking of such trees as should be removed, if material 

 were salable. 



Tliird and Four tli weeks : Marking out trees to be cut for reproduction ; estimat- 

 ing and measuring stock. 



Fifth and Sixth weeks : Planting to forest and nursery work. Each student is 

 expected to perform all the manipulations in planting and sowing, in field and nur- 

 sery, for a sufficient number of days to become thoroughly familiar with the use of 

 tools and the handling of plant material. This work will naturally have to be shifted 

 to such time as the season may dictate. 



During these weeks the course on pisciculture will also occupy lecture hours and 

 field-work. 



Seventh and Eighth zvecks : Surveying and road-building. Line surveying, topo- 

 graphic work, and laying out of roads of various classes and grades, assisting in 

 actual road-building and building of culverts, etc. 



Ninth and Tenth weeks : Improvement cutting in the leaf, and Forest Description. 

 Each student will make a full description of a given area of the College Forest 

 assigned to him as a basis for a working plan. 



The field-work will be in charge of Assistant Professor ROTH, with occasional 

 inspection by the Director. 



The lectures, with field excursions, on forest protection, forest administration and 

 game preservation, will be given by Dr. GlFFORD. 



