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DO WE NEED A FORESTRY COLLEGE? 
By THoMAS SoUTHWORTH, Eso. 
Read 13th April, 1907] 
COLLEGE training seems to me to be of two kinds: that which tends 
to broaden and develop the mental powers of the student, and that which 
imparts the special knowledge necessary to a profession by which he ex- 
pects to earn his living. 
The successful college must impart either culture or ‘“‘bread-earning”’ 
knowledge, and where eminently successful, both. 
Although the student of forestry in a thorough study of his profession 
must to some extent receive the training that broadens and develops, 
must follow studies that tend to culture of the mind, forestry is primarily 
a ‘‘bread and butter” profession, and if a College of Forestry is to be a 
success, its graduates must be able to secure lucrative employment as 
foresters. Some men may, of course, undertake a course in forestry 
for the mental training afforded, or because of their interest in the problem 
of forest perpetuation, and without intention of adopting forestry as a 
profession. Such men will be rare however, and speaking generally, 
men will undertake a college course in Scientific Forestry as a means of 
earning a living. FE 
Upon the question of any considerable number of foresters securing 
such employment in Canada depends the success and the need of a College 
to train men for the profession. 
Do we need trained foresters, is a question easily answered. We do. 
That the men or the interests that would be profitably served by them 
are all prepared to agree with me in this is by no means certain, however, 
and unless the men controlling the forested lands of Canada can be brought 
to this point of view, I cannot see that we have any particular need of a 
College of Forestry. There are several excellent Schools of Forestry in 
the United States. The training there is such as to fit men to cope 
with forest problems much the same as exist on this side of the inter- 
national boundary, and if but few openings for foresters offer in this coun- 
try, we have no need to expend the money and the effort to train the few 
men required to fill them. 
