shortest time possible. But as the forester, like the lumberman, harvests 

 his crop, considerable engineering knowledge must be added to business 

 knowledge to carry on the business of forestry. While, then, forestry is to 

 the statesman a policy of national interest, to the student a science, to the 

 forest producer an art, it is in the end a business, to make revenue from the 

 use of the soil through timber production. In Europe forestry has long 

 been practiced, forest laws existing as early as the sixteenth century, but 

 our modern forestry has been practiced in Germany over 150 years. In 

 America forestry is a new word and a new art, which has come to the front 

 as the shortage of the natural timber resource made it apparent as a neces- 

 sity. In the United States the government has recognized this necessity 

 for forestry, has instituted a Bureau of Forestry with annual appropriations 

 reaching now the sum of $185,000 merely for investigation, and has set 

 aside 60 million acres of forest reservations. Several of the States have 

 adopted the same policy, notably the State of New York, which has re- 

 served over one million acres under a forest commission and has also insti- 

 tuted the N. Y. State College of Forestry at Cornell University. Several 

 other forestry schools have followed. 



While in the United States large tracts of the timber land are held bv 

 private individuals and corporations, in Canada the Provincial Governments 

 have displayed great foresight in retaining control of these lands, and the 

 conditions are excellent for the organization of a system of forestry. 



