The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-02-22
SCHOOL OF
FORESTRY
And Hs Missi0n-S0me Interest
ing Statistics.
PRESIDENT J. A. KEMP
States Some Interesting Facts Con-
cerning this School in the Bis
malck Tribune.

maECk Tribune.
Among the new state institu-
tons of which comparatively
little is known in this part of
the state, is the school of For
estry at Bottineau. It is the
youngest institution of learning g
in the state, having only been
opened January last, at which
time it had an enrolment of
thirty pupils.
The courses of study involves
the following subjects with
their subdivisions:
forestry and horticulture
,Silviculture, soil physics, forest
photography, en- tomo 1ogy,
plant pathology. and field work
in horticulture, nursery work
and forest planting.
Elementary Agriculture-As
recommended by Preside n t
Worst of the state agricultural
college.
Supplementary Studies
above work is supplemented by
courses in other sciences of the
university as zoology, botany,
physics, che m i s try, physio-
:graphy and meteorology, math-
ematics, languages, history and
scivics. One years work in the
common branches will be given
in the preparatory department.
Shorthand and typewriting-
The school will also have per-
mission for a commercial de-
partment and expect to soon
have an instructor and be pre-
pared to teach bookkeeping,
Ssh o r thand, etc. in all it's
branches.
The course has been arranged
with the cooperation of Presi-
dent Merrifield of the univer-
ssity, and President Worst of
the agricultural college,, and
students finishing the work
Offered in the forestry school
will receive due credit at the
university or the agricultural
college.
Being so far removed from
the other educational institu-
tions of the state, as we'll as
situated in a section of the state
so different as to soil, rainfall,
temperature and prevailin g
winds, this school will not only
not draw students from any
other institution, but will ac-
tually be a feeder for the higher
institutions, particularly for the
agricultural college with which
it must necessarily be closely
allied. It will bring into school
many young people who have
quit because of lack of oppor-
tunity near at hand or lack of
funds to go to the institutions
in eastern the end of the state.
Some of these can be relied on
to sufficiently contract the
school habit to want the more
advanced courses offered in the
older institutions. For the rea-
sons mentioned the greater per
cent of the young people of the
western part of the state are
leaving school by the time they
have had one or two years of
very elementary high school
work, for poorly equipped high
schools, or indeed, before they
have completed the common
branches.
The counties tributary to the
school of forestry Ward, Nc
Henry. Rollette and Bottineau
have an aggregate population
of 7O,515; an area of 10, 351
square miles; an assessed valu-
alton of 1926, 639, 469; a vote of
1O,476, which is rapidly increas-
ing. Bottineau county alone
has 119 elevators, with capa-
city Of about $500, 900 bushels
of grain (all full now; thirty
four banks of over $500, 600 cap
ital, and twelve newspapers.
The development of this part
of the state has been carried
forward at a rate scarcely real
lied by the most of us. The
state owes it to herself to fur
nfsh these citizen with ample
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