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standard of professional education higher than is nec- 

 essary for the executive staff of the forest department. 

 However, should there be found talented scholars with 

 higher aspirations, occasion should be given to them 

 after completing the full course in this school to enter 

 a college for obtaining a higher standard of education 

 to fit them for the higher walks of the profession. 



III. The State Park should also afford an opportunity 

 for creating an experiment station for forest trees. 



Our knowledge of where, what, and how to plant trees 

 is, as the late Dr. John Warder said, very imperfect. 

 There are only two ways to complete this knowledge, 

 viz., either by experience or by experiment. In Europe 

 it took more than a century to organize a system of 

 scientific forestry, and since that time the experiment 

 stations are fully engaged in disclosing the many dark 

 points which remain in this science still doubtful, in 

 spite of the excellent management of the European 

 forests by erudite and capable men. Now, if we intro- 



and instructors, for they are the best that can be found. The trouble 

 lies in the system. There is a natural antagonism between agricul- 

 tural and classical students, and they will never in any manner coal- 

 esce; the former being in the minority, the latter will drive them by 

 sneers and taunts either into a strictly literary course, or send them 

 home in disgust." What should be done and can be done to avoid such 

 undesirable condition may be seen in the little " Storrs Agricultural 

 School " of Connecticut. This is a purely agricultural school, costing 

 but a few thousand dollars every year, and has many more students 

 than the Cornell University has in its agricultural department. The 

 graduates of this school go all back to the plow and realize practically 

 the benefits of their education, while most of the few graduates from 

 the Cornell agricultural department enter city and business life. Let 

 us have a little forest school in the Adiroudacks for educating the men 

 required to perform the practical operations in the management of 

 the State forests. Cornell University may rise to educate the higher 

 officials who, later on, will be in demand for the administration of 

 our State forests, and who should possess an university education. 





