Curriculum for pupils of twelve to fifteen years : (advanced division).

Date:
1931
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Credit: Curriculum for pupils of twelve to fifteen years : (advanced division). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    essential. In most of the forestry counties it should be possible for the Education Committees to arrange for such facilities from the Forestry Commission, or, through the good offices of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, from local landowners. In some districts the County Councils might even acquire small areas of waste land near schools, to be used partly as a forest nursery and partly for planting work and the growing of class material. These nurseries might even be used for the production of trees to be planted as roadside trees in counties where the County Councils choose to exercise their powers in that connection. If County Councils should in future come to administer odd small areas of woodland in their districts with the intention of preserv- ing the amenity of such districts, blocks of a few acres in extent might easily be set aside for educational purposes. In this way pupils would be able to study silviculture during the plantation and final stages, in which it differs so greatly from other industries, such as agriculture and horticulture. In such reserved areas the essential prin- ciples of silviculture could be taught in a way which is quite impossible in the school garden or nursery. FORESTRY First Year.—Forest Physiography. Soil : (2) Origin of Soil ; (4) Formation of Indigenous Soil. Composition of Soil : (a) Mineral‘ Constituents of Soil; (4) Organic Matter or Humus ; (c) Water ; (d) Gases. Classification of Soils.