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Those who specialize in grazing and are preparing to enter the U. S. 

 Forest Service should not fail to avail themselves of the opportunity 

 of taking certain forestry courses. Probably the most pertinent of 

 these subjects are : Silvics, silviculture, forest utilization, and forest 

 protection. Certainly silviculture is a subject with which nearly every 

 range man in the Forest Service is concerned. It enters into the graz- 

 ing problems on cut-over lands, on burns, on plantations, and, in fact, 

 wherever both forestry and grazing are practiced. 



THF TYPE OF MAN 



Little less important than the high standard of training proposed for 

 the technical grazing man is the class of men those who undertake to 

 teach the subject will encourage to pursue this study. The student who 

 has had practical experience in diversified farming or ranching and 

 who has had the good fortune of handling the different classes of stock, 

 even on a very small scale, has so distinct an advantage over the city- 

 reared chap, with no farm or ranch experience, as to make it quite 

 difficult for the latter to compete successfully with the former until he 

 has himself had considerable work in this field. In other words, it costs 

 infinitely more to develop to a high point of usefulness the average 

 city-bred man, whose sole asset is his college training in grazing, than 

 it does the average man with a few years of farm experience who is 

 similarly trained. What success the writer may have had in the devel- 

 opment of principles applicable to range administration on National 

 Forests, for example, is probably as much due to his experience in 

 diversified farming as to his training in the sciences. 



To have practical application, any research problem in grazing must 

 be based not only upon the fundamental laws of botany and other sci- 

 ences, but upon a practical knowledge of the broad field of the live- 

 stock industry as well. That the man who has had practical experience 

 in live-stock production and who is trained in the sciences, as outlined 

 in this paper, should succeed in shaping his investigations and grazing 

 policies to meet the present and future requirements infinitely better 

 than either the purely "college-made" range technician or the practical 

 range man, requires no argument. The teacher of grazing, therefore, 

 should use fully as much discretion in encouraging students to specialize 

 in this group as those who teach medicine, law, or technical forestry. 

 Obviously, this discussion presupposes that men of much dynamic force, 

 strong personality, keenness of mind, and numerous other qualifica- 

 tions are of inestimable importance. 



