St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-03-09
VERMONT NEWS.
CatalOg Shows Improvement and Growth
at Midd1ebury College.

Catal0g Shows Improvement and Growth
at Midd1ebury College.
The new catalogue shows that many
substantial improvements have been
made the past year. The faculty now
numbers 10 active instructors, a gain of
seven in the last two years. New courses
of a practical nature indicate that
Middlebury is alive to the demands of
the times. The student may now have
two years of continuous advanced work
in forestry, including the principles and
and practical methods of establishing
and treating woodlands, the life and
habits OF trees in forests. and the i'm
prOvement OF the character and compost
ton of the forest. A course of much i'm
pOrtance to the welfare of Vermont is the
economic geology of the state, a study of
the marble, granite, and slate industries,
and of the composition of soils and their
influence upon agricultural pursuits. The
course in surveying and plotting extends
over a year and is more thorough than
that given In some schools of engineer
ing. There is full year also in mechan-
ical drawing and descriptive geometry.
The new department of pedagogy is al
ready we'll organized and offers a special
course for teaching training extending
over four years. A special feature of the
department is a course in supervision,
designed to prepare men for positions as
superintendent. Two hundred and
hfty-six students are now in attendance
at Middlebury. gain of 55 in the last
two years Sixty per cent of the students
come from Vermont, and IL states are
represented. A summer session is plan
ned, to extend from July to August 10.
The new 100000 Pearsons Dormitory
will be begun in the spring.
Many Deer Near POwnal.
In the low range of mountains crossing
the southern half of Pownal and extend
ing into the state of Massachusetts, is
is believed to be the largest herd of
wild deer in New England outside of the
big wilderness in northern Maine. An
accurate estimate of the number of the
animals passing the winter in the To-
cality is, of course, impossible, but
County Game Warden Harry Chase of
Bennington who has been instructed by
Fish and Game Commissioner H. G..
Thomas to keep watch over the herd
while the snow remains on the ground,
is positive that there are more than a
hundred. The bucks have shed their
horns, and there is no way in which the
two sexes may be distinguished. A little
daughter of William Estes, who lives
near the Broad brook reservoir which
supplies the city of North Adams with
water, has amused herself by tramping
through the woods and collecting the
antlers which the bucks have rubbed off
from their heads against the trunks of
trees. She has secured a good sized coll
ection, and in one instance a complete
pair found at the foot of the same tree.
This is a rare occurrence, for in nearly
every instance the antlers are shed one
at a time and the second may be left
miles from the spot where the first was
found. When the state fish and game
commissioner at the close of the open
season last October announced that
nearly 5000 deer had been killed in Yer
mont during single week many people
expressed the opinion that the animals
had been nearly, if not quite, exterrninat-
ed. Conditions that prevail in southern
Vermont and in the northern section OF
Berkshire county in. Massachusetts, do
not, however, confirm 1T.
National Guard Inspection.
The annual United States inspection oil
the First infantry and band. Vermont
National Guard will he made by Can.