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fessions. In general, the requirements should correspond to those for 

 the study of professional forestry. The requirements for the latter are 

 discussed in detail in a paper entitled "Standardization of Instruction 

 in Forestry,"^ and hence only those courses which bear more or less 

 directly on the practice of range management need be mentioned here. 

 The following auxiliary subjects, including a statement to signify their 

 application to the management of pasture lands, should be embraced in 

 the curriculum : 



Subject Application 



Botany General management of all forage resources. 



Taxonomy Recognition of important, objectionable, and mi- 



important range plants. 

 Morphology (internal and Structure pertinent to the forage value of plants 



external) and to revegetation. 



Physiology Response of growth and functions of plants to an- 

 nual cropping. 



Ecology Relation of invasions and successions to range 



management. 



Plant Pathology Control of parasitic diseases inimical to forage 



production. 

 ZoologA^ General conception of animal life, animal rela- 

 tionship, and zoo-dynamics fundamentally es- 

 sential to the study of entomology, veterinary 

 science, etc. 



Bacteriology The application of soil flora to soil fertility and 



crop production. 

 Entomology Classification and life history of insects, espe- 

 cially as related to the genera and species de- 

 structive to forage plants. 



Chemistry Constituent of plants and animals; comparative 



nutritive qualities of forage plants and concen- 

 trates ; soil fertility requirements. 

 Geology (including soils) Relation of soils to intensity of grazing, revegeta- 

 tion, erosion, etc. 



Animal husbandry Comparative value of feeds, computing rations, 



and suitability of the different breeds of live 

 stock to the various conditions. 



Genetics Improvement in animals and plants through the 



application and control of the laws of heredity. 



Veterinary Science Control of diseases of domestic (range) stock; 



surgery in connection with live-stock production. 

 Civil Engineering Fundamentals of surveying, map-making, and typ- 

 ing as related to range use and management. 

 Meteorology Climatic phenomena in relation to crop produc- 

 tion ; climatic forecasts and climatic cycles. 



Botany probably has the widest possibilities of application. This 

 subject should include a study of the five subdivisions indicated, each 

 of which should be preceded by at least one year's study of general 

 (college) botany. A knowledge of botany is sure to have a telling 

 efifect ultimately on forage production and hence upon the live-stock 



^ Report of the Committee of the Conference of Forest Schools in the Forest 

 Quarterly, 1912, Vol. X, No. 3, pp. 343-347. 



