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matically regulated by ordering that all graduates from forest 

 schools of collegiate grade who intend to enter Government 

 service must pass the same civil service examination. 



Promising students, upon their graduation from Government 

 schools, may be conditionally admitted into the service and em- 

 ployed in the various lines of work for one or two years. Then 

 they are sent abroad for two to three years to study foreign con- 

 ditions. After they return they may be admitted into the service 

 without examination upon their presenting a written report of 

 their experience and work abroad. 



Steps Necessary in Application of This Policy. 



During or before the organization of the service, certain pre- 

 liminary measures are necessary. The following merely indi- 

 cates the types of such measures. 



Education of the People. Every modern movement depends 

 for its ultimate success upon the intelligent support of the 

 people. This is especially true with forestry. The people must 

 be educated to understand the broad significance of the move- 

 ment and thereby to give their unwavering support. Such an 

 education can be brought about in three ways : 



Extension work among the rank and file of the people 

 is necessarily important. Public lectures on principles of con- 

 servation among the educated classes and illustrated talks on 

 farm forestry to the country folk all help along the movement. 

 The opportunity of publicity through the press should be fully 

 utilized. This work should be taken up not only by the service 

 but also by men outside of the Government service interested in 

 forestry and the conservation movement. 



Objective teaching in the form of model forests or experi- 

 mental work is often more effective than lectures. It has the 

 value of showing the people what a forest should look like and 

 how it can be brought about. It is of more educational value 

 to those who can observe things and can think for themselves. 

 In a few provinces model forests have been established. This 

 kind of work should be extended more vigorously. 



The Forestry Association is an institution that cannot be dis- 

 pensed with in pushing forward this movement. It makes use 



