The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-06-08
PRACTICAL WORK INFORESTRl
The M. A. C. Offers a Valuable Sum-
mer Course of Study in Camp.

East Lansing June 10Th the
Michigan Agricultural College opens
its Forestry Summer School at Day
huff Laks, II miles northwest of Cad
tiful lake, under giant hardwood
trees the tents of the school are pitch
ed on the very edge of the virgin for
est. No more beautiful spot could be
found for a camp site and no place
could be better located for the work.
The camp is almost ideally arranged.
The students tents form a great cres-
cent around the camp fire. Within
few rods is the assembly hal, a wood
en- building containing class room and
Office On the immediate edge OF the
lake, a short distance down the slope
is the large cook house and mess hall,
and the meals served are excellent.
The drainage is perfect and there Is
every facility for work and play.
There are always some canoes taken
up by the students and an open field
nearby furnishes a baseball ground
and series of games is arranged
each year with nearby towns. The
postoffice is at Meauwataka, about
one mile distant.
The work given is all practical and
consists of three principal courses:
Forest mensuration, including timber
estimating and growth studies, work
which is Of particular value to any
one interested in timber or forestry;
logging. including a time study of
logging operations and the compare
tive cost Of taking out logs of different
sizes, and also milling operations; and
logging engineering and surveying, in
GLIDING land surveying and topogra.
phic mapping. The opportunities for
carrying on these studies are unsur-
passed. The heavy hardwood timber
an excellent field for timber
estimating and bodies of second
growth nearby afford field for
growth studies. The logging opera
tions which are being carried on with
in a few miles of the camp furnish a
field for the work in numbering and
the large saw mills at Cadillac give
an opportunity for study of milling
The country is rough enough to af-
ford an excellent field for instruction
in topographic mapping and the
course in surveying is of very practi
cal nature. A full equipment of instru-
ments is on hand for all the work.
Tents and cots are furnished by the
College. The students bring their own
bedding.
The fees for instruction are very
moderate and the cost OF board is di-
vided equally among students and in
structors and comes to about $3.50
per week. Work starts early in the
and stops about four-thirty
when the boys seek the swimming
hole or ball field Perhaps the best
hour of the day is in the evening
when the campfire is lighted and stu
dents and instructors gather around it
for song and story.
The course should appeal TO those |
who are interested in numbering and |
forestry and the student may enroll |
for all or any part of the course. 1t |
furnishes an opportunity for a pleas
ant and instructive outing under ideal
The railroad station for the camp |
S Boon on the Ann Arbor railroad |
This is about FIVE miles from camp
over a good highway.
The number of students is limited |
by the equipment used in giving in
All inquiries and applica,
ions for enrolment should be made
70 A. X. Chittenden, Professor of
Forestry, East Lansing. Michigan.
The College would like to have all
young men interested in this work
in it just as far as the
equipment will permit It is under
stood that a number of men can still
be admitted if application is made
promptly and any men interested are
urged to take the matter up at once.