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it over to the "hired man" as is now the custom. In fact, I was 

 the hired man. Between 1896 and 1909 I personally put about 

 350,000 acres of land under a system of maps showing topog- 

 raphy and timber. That meant usually having been within 50 

 rods of every spot on the territory, mapping every ridge and 

 valley, and putting an estimate on the quantity of timber. Much 

 of that cruising was done all alone. I suppose I was a fool to 

 do it, but I feel it to be true that the spread of a system valuable 

 to the country was hastened in that way." 



Beginning this year, on June 7, the Department of Forestry 

 of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell Uni- 

 versity will hereafter offer work during the third (summer) 

 term. The first six weeks of the term will be spent in Ithaca; 

 the remainder of the term in camp on a forest iract in the 

 northern part of the Adirondacks. The work offered will form a 

 regular part of the schedule required of professional students in 

 forestry. The courses offered for undergraduate students will 

 constitute the first term's work in the senior year, and include 

 forest utilization, forest mensuration, forest ecology and silvi- 

 culture. They are open to students who have completed their 

 junior year. For graduate students there is offered a course in 

 forest management, with individual problems in advanced work 

 and research. 



Because of the obvious advantages of the season and place 

 of work the courses offered will hereafter be given in the summer 

 term only. 



During the autumn succeeding the summer term, the seniors 

 are expected to obtain the required three months of practical 

 experience in the logging woods, returning to Ithaca to complete 

 their undergraduate work in the second (spring) term. The 

 seniors will then receive their B. S. degree in June. Candi- 

 dates for the degree Master in Forestry will spend a second 

 summer in camp and then one more term at Ithaca, in the autumn, 

 to complete their work leading to the Master's degree. The 

 graduate students will finish their course in February and be 

 ready in the spring to enter on professional work under national, 

 state or private auspices. 



The alternation of class room study and practical work in 

 the field during the latter years spent at the University is 



