Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass.—An elective major course is offered in the department of forestry during junior and senior years, which takes up such studies as dendrology, silviculture, forest mensuration, and allied subjects. During the winter several lectures are given by the State forester on “State Forest Policy.” The course is intended to give the students the same kind of education regarding true forest land that they receive concerning tillable land, and also to prepare students for the graduate schools of forestry. A lecture course dealing especially with wood lot management is offered to students of the short winter and summer schools.
University of Minnesota, Northwest School and Station, Crookston, Minn.—An elementary course in forestry is offered dealing with the planting of windbreaks and wood lots, the characteristics and adaptability of the more common trees, and the methods of propagation and conservation of planted and natural forests.
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Agricultural College, Miss.—Courses in farm forestry and dendrology of one term each are offered for students in agriculture.
University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.—A summer school of forestry for lumbermen, timberland owners, and rangers is given on the university forest of 50,000 acres in the Ozark Mountains, in connection with the summer course for regular forestry students.
University of Montana, Missoula, Mont.—Special courses in surveying, scaling and cruising, lumbering, forest appraisal, and logging engineering are offered in connection with the short course for rangers.
Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Mass.—An elementary course in the care of lawns, shrubbery, and forests is given during one term.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr.—A course in farm forestry covering one semester is elective for all students of the university and is designed primarily for agricultural students. It is an elementary course designed to familiarize students with the best trees that will grow in the State of Nebraska, as well as the methods of handling the farm wood lot.
New Hampshire College, Durham, N. H.—Courses in forestry are required of all four-year and two-year agricultural students, and are elective for all students of the college. Beginning with junior year, four-year students in agriculture may elect forestry as a principal subject and are then given advanced forestry work together with other agricultural and associated subjects. Every encouragement and assistance is given a student desiring to make forestry his profession, with the understanding that he will complete his training at some school offering a complete course in forestry.
North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, West Raleigh, N. C.—A course in forestry is offered as one of the senior horticultural electives.
North Dakota Agricultural College, Agricultural College, N. Dak.—An elementary course in forestry covering six weeks is offered in the third term of junior year in the four-year agricultural course.