

FORESTRY. 



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The New York State College of Forestry 

 has its junior and senior classes this spring 

 at Axton, in the College Forest, which is 

 situated in the Adirondacks near Tupper 

 lake. There, under the guidance of 2 pro- 

 fessors, ihe young men will apply the 

 theoretical knowledge gained in the class 

 room in actual practice. 



Among the lecture courses there are 2 

 entirely novel ones, which will interest the 

 readers of Recreation, namely, one on 

 Fish Culture and one on Game Preserva- 

 tion. These are the first attempts at sys- 

 tematic teaching of these 2 subjects. 



The course on Game Preservation will 

 be given by Dr. GifTord. The course on 

 Fish Culture will be in such competent 

 hands as those of Prof. Barton W. Ever- 

 mann, well known as an authority on 

 fishes, fish culture and as the Ichthyologist 

 of the U. S. Fish Commission. 



The course will consist of a series of 

 daily lectures for 2 weeks with laboratory 

 work, field excursions to the ponds, lakes 

 and rivers, and visits to the State Hatchery 

 at Clear Water, within a few hours of Ax- 

 ton. One or more lectures will be devoted 

 to the following subjects: 



[. Natural reproduction among fishes; 

 manner of fertilization; conditions under 

 which spawning takes place; dangers 

 which beset the eggs, the fry and the 

 young; necessity for artificial propaga- 

 tion; natural and artificial methods con- 

 trasted. 



2. The species of fishes propagated ar- 

 tificially in America; the spawning time, 

 place and habits of each, especially those 

 native to the State of New York. 



3. The Salmonidx, or salmon trout and 

 whitefish; methods of artificial propaga- 

 tion in detail. 



4. The blass bass and other Centrar- 

 chidse; methods of culture. 



5. The shad, wall-eyed pike, etc. 



6. The care of fish fry. 



7. Methods of shipment of eggs, fry, 

 fingerlings and adults; how plants of fish 

 are made. 



8. Pollution of streams and lakes and 

 fish protection. 



9. Fish Culture in America, its history 

 and results. 



Various other phases of fish culture not 

 especially mentioned in the headings given 

 above will not be omitted in the lectures, 

 nor will object lessons in the field be want- 

 ing. 



In order to make this interesting and 

 novel course accessible to others outside 

 the students of this college, such a limited 

 number of visitors as can be accommo- 

 dated either in or near Axton will be wel- 

 comed without extra charge except for 

 board and other accommodations. Those 

 intending to participate are advised to cor- 



respond at an early date with the Director 

 in order to secure quarters in the order of 

 application. 



THE FOREST-TFNT CATERPILLAR. 



Lately, however, the sugar maple trees 

 of the Northeastern part of the United 

 States have been seriously infested by an 

 insect pest called the forest-tent caterpillar. 

 Several fine orchards have been killed by 

 this pest. In many places the trees have 

 been twice completely defoliated. If this 

 pest continues, the whole industry is in 

 jeopardy. Fortunately, this insect has an 

 enemy in the form of another insect 

 called the ichneumon fly. This fly was 

 very abundant last year, and many have 

 hopes that the forest-tent caterpillar will 

 not be able to survive much longer. The 

 ichneumon fly deposits its eggs under the 

 skin of the caterpillar. These hatch out 

 and feed on their host. Thus one thing 

 feeds on another. In fact, nature is 

 practically one set of wheels within an- 

 other. When one thing is interfered with, 

 the whole machine is more or less affected, 

 and it is often some time before an equi- 

 librium is again established. As long as 

 we recklessly destroy the birds and other 

 animals which feed on these pests, the 

 more likely are such calamities to occur. 



SEEDLINGS. 



It has been recently stated in the news- 

 papers that some of the larger Western 

 reservations will be reduced and portions 

 not necessary to forest preservation re- 

 stored to the public domain, while smaller 

 reservations will be created. These will 

 be selected after careful consideration, and 

 will include headwaters of streams, tracts 

 of land where fire has destroyed the forests 

 and a new growth has been started, and 

 picturesque and rare physical formations 

 which may be desired in the future for 

 national parks. Nearly all the Western 

 men have agreed to this arrangement, and 

 the belief is general that it will be adopted. 

 This will settle only one phase of the mat- 

 ter, as there is still a wide difference of 

 opinion as to what regulations shall be 

 made regarding grazing of cattle and sheep 

 on the reservations. The stockmen all 

 over the West demand the right to pasture 

 their herds and flocks in the reservations, 

 while the forestry associations vigorously 

 oppose the proposition. 



"How foolishly men destroy the forest 

 cover without any regard for conse- 

 quences, for thereby they rob themselves 

 of wood and water!" — Humboldt. 



