620 Forestry Quarterly. 



1910, and in the fall of that year the effort was made to secure 

 Professor Roth to organize the professional course, that is be- 

 fore the Syracuse bill was enacted, although actual instruction 

 did not materialize until 1912. 



We give these statements for facts as they were given to us 

 or are found in reports, and abstain from further comment ex- 

 cept to reiterate our original reflection as to the propriety of 

 spending State money at two institutions for forestry education, 

 both institutions trying more or less to cover the whole field. 

 Even in Germany, the only State having two professional forest 

 schools is Prussia, which is three times as large as New York, 

 with a highly developed forestry system, the reason for the dupli- 

 cation being the great difference in forest conditions of the dif- 

 ferent sections of the Kingdom. 



Not in America alone has the cry for more logging instruc- 

 tion at forest schools been heard. As an echo to the discussion 

 at the Yale Forest School Alumni Reunion, December, 191 1, 

 (Report, pp. 56-78), comes the proposal from Germany in the 

 April number of the "Zeitschrift fiir Forst-und Jagdwesen" to 

 include six months experience at a sawmill in the practical train- 

 ing of the candidate of Forst Assessor. (See "Forestry Quar- 

 terly," Vol. XI, pp. 46-47.) "Agrarier" commenting on this 

 thinks that, with all this specialization in the business end of 

 forestry, silviculture is apt to suffer. 



This stricture reminds us of Captain J. B. White's excellent 

 dictum that the growing of timber and the logging, manufac- 

 turing and marketing of timber are entirely separate professions. 

 The former is forestr}-; the latter lumbering, and it is scarcely 

 just to expect either the forester to be proficient in lumbering or 

 the lumberman in the growing of timber. 



