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NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF FORESTRY. 263
5. Timber Physics and Wood Technology. Technical proper
ties of wood and its uses. The course is arranged to meet also the
needs of students in Civil Engineering, Architecture, and others inter
ested in the properties and uses of wood. Lectures, recitations and
work. Four hours. Fall. Assistant Professor Roth.
laboratory
6. Exploitation. Methods and means employed in the harvest of
forest products, logging, transportation, milling, and preparation of
wood for market. Lectures and recitations. Three hours. Winter
term. Excursions to actual operations and points of manufacture.
Assistant Professor Roth.
7. Forest Mensuration. Methods of ascertaining volume of felled
and standing trees, of whole forest growths, timber estimating, deter
mining accretion of trees and stands. Lectures, laboratory and field
work. Three hours. Winter. Assistant Professor Roth.
8. Forest Regulation. Principles and methods underlying the
preparation of plans of management for continuous wood and revenue
production. Lectures and recitations. Four hours. Fall term.
Field work in spring. Professor Fernow.
9. Forest Valuation. Principles and methods of ascertaining the
money value of forest growths at different ages for purposes of sales,
exchanges, damage suits, etc.
Assistant Professor Gifford.
Lectures. Two hours. Winter term.
10. Forestry Statics and Finance. Application of the princi
ples of finance to forest management ; methods of finding the most
profitable form of management, determining rotation and expendi
tures with reference to revenue. Lectures and recitations. Three
hours. Winter term. Professor Fernow.
11. Forestry History
and Politics. Historical development of
the economic and technical features of modern forestry ; forestry
conditions at home and abroad ; forests and as forestry factors in the
household of the community and nation ; basis and principles under
lying forest policies of the State. The course will prove of value and
interest to students of political economy. Lectures only. Two
hours. Winter. Assistant Professor Gifford.
12. Seminary in Reading of German Forestry Literature.
Two hours. Fall and winter. Professor Fernow and Assistant Pro
fessor Gifford.
[ Thefollowing courses are given during the Spring term
in the College Forest}.
13. Practicum in Silviculture. Nursery practice, planting in
forest, improvement cuttings, marking for seed cutting, etc Five
hours. Assistant Professor Roth.