. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 692 AMERICAN FORESTRY Here are found many types of trees, from the pine lands and upland hardwoods to the swampy conditions of the Mississippi bottomlands. To the north lie the prairies and to the west the great plains each with its particular forest problem. Located in the College of Agriculture, the forest school will have the advantages that forest schools in similar land grant colleges possess, of having the fundamental sciences taught in long established departments of the university, and of calling on the other colleges for instruction in such s
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 692 AMERICAN FORESTRY Here are found many types of trees, from the pine lands and upland hardwoods to the swampy conditions of the Mississippi bottomlands. To the north lie the prairies and to the west the great plains each with its particular forest problem. Located in the College of Agriculture, the forest school will have the advantages that forest schools in similar land grant colleges possess, of having the fundamental sciences taught in long established departments of the university, and of calling on the other colleges for instruction in such subjects as surveying, engineering, entomology, economics, etc. Twelve weeks of the course will be spent in practical forest work in the Ozark Mountains on the university forest. Here the work will consist in estimating tim- ber, investigating lumber operations, mak- ing topographic and logging maps, and in marking timber for cutting. It is planned to acquire a portable sawmill so that the students can make studies of the different processes of a small sawmill operation and become proficient in the handling of such mills and in the manufacture of lumber. At Columbia a twenty-acre tract of young timber has been devoted to the use of the department of forestry as an experimental and demonstration tract, and several acres laid out for a forestry nursery. The uni- versity owns many planted groves of forest trees such as catalpa, black and honey lo- cust, hackberry, ash, pecan, etc. One of the latest of the forest schools to be established, the University of Mis- souri Forest School already has a woods equipment unsurpassed by any other. The course will be developed along practical lines, fitting students for professional for- est work. Harvard Forest School In the September number of this maga- zine, in a list of institutions giving instruc- tion in forestry, the forest school of Har- vard University was listed with the under- graduate schools, its course being described :!s a four
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