European Study for Foresters. 439 



Conclusion. 

 Notwithstanding the desirabihty of European study how few 

 men are taking the time even for a short trip! Certainly the 

 United States cannot afford to make the technical mistakes which 

 other nations have made during their early development. Eng- 

 land has sent her forest students to France and Germany ; Japan 

 has sent men for periods as long as three years. The Forest Ser- 

 vice is of course the largest employer of foresters in America and 

 can do — a great deal to encourage European study by advocating, 

 at the proper time, salaried furloughs to enable say a three 

 months' "study trip" on full pay. It seems that this would be 

 profitable and would do a great deal of good in the West in pre- 

 venting supervisors (especially those at isolated posts) from 

 becoming stale through long continued routine unbroken by the 

 stimulus of study. American foresters will not be content merely 

 to follow European teachers, and it seems reasonably certain that 

 within one or two decades the x\merican profession will be making 

 a name for itself by its progressiveness. But to do this, our 

 technical leaders at experiment stations and elsewhere must be 

 thoroughly familiar with the latest results in Europe ; and can a 

 man really understand and apply results without having first seen 

 conditions ? 



Conversion Table. 



Festmeter per hectare =:Cords per acre. 



1,000 B. M. per acre =Festmeters per hectare. 



Festmeters per hectare X n, =Raummeters. 



1,000 B .M. per acre X 6, =Festmeters per hectare. 



Cords X 3-62, =Festrneters. 



Cords per acre X 91, =600 Kilograms^ 1.320 Is. 



Cubic feet X -03, =Festmeters. 



Cubic Yards X .76, =Marks per hectare. 



Dollars per acre X 9-9, =Marks per festmeter. 



Dollars per cord X i-i, =Marks per festmeter. 



Dollars per cubic feet X 140, =1 2/3 cubic meters. 



I ton, 



Festmeters per hectare X 0.17, =1,000 B. M. per acre. 



Festmeters per hectare X i4-3, =Cubic feet per acre. 



Festmeters X 35-31, =Cubic feet.. 



Festmeters X 31, =Cubic yards. 



Hectoliters X 2.84, =Bushels. 



Raummeters X 2.47, =:Cubic feet. 



Square kilometers X 24.7, =:Acres. 



Marks per Festmeter X -007, =:Dollars per cubic feet. 



Marks per Festmeter X -9. =Dollars per cord. 



Marks per hectare x .1, =:Dollars per acre. 



Raummeters X .28 (.276), =:Cords. 



Hectares X 2.471 143, =Acres. 



Acres X .40467. = Hectares. 



