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training-school, where young men are given the rudi- 

 ments of forestry in the shortest possible time, the 

 dean of this institution, Dr. B. E. Fernow, believes 

 that a forester should first of all be a man of lib- 

 eral education. He therefore provides a curricu- 

 lum, the first two years of which are spent in 

 acquiring fundamental and general training and 

 information. While the sciences, as is proper, 

 take the first rank in the student's tasks, languages 

 and literature are not neglected. Not until the 

 third college year do technical forestry studies 

 begin. In the fourth year, the future forester's 

 work becomes intensely practical. The university 

 possesses a large tract of forest land in the Adiron- 

 dacks, the gift of the State. Here the senior 

 students will learn, under the supervision of Pro- 

 fessors Filibert Roth and John Gifford, the various 

 technical operations required in forestry, from seed- 

 ing and planting trees to sawing the logs into lum- 

 ber. It is the intention of the university to make 

 its forest a shining example of how a forest should 

 be managed, and the aim will therefore be, not only 

 to afford instruction to the students, but to make 

 the management a financial success. 



At Biltmore, the North Carolina forest estate 

 which has frequently been mentioned, Doctor 

 Schenck has opened a school where students of 

 sufficient preliminary training may become pro- 

 fessional foresters. The Forestry Division of the 

 United States Agricultural Department also has a 

 limited number of places for student-employees, 



