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twenty-one were enrolled, this being the present 

 size of the class. For the directorship of the 

 course the Department obtain'^d the services of 

 E. J. Hanzlik, Esq., Forest Examiner, United 

 States Forest Service. He is also handling the 

 tuition in the forestry subiects. Mathematics 

 and forest surveying are being given by A. 

 LighthalK Esq., a British Columbia civil en- 

 gineer, who has both teaching and practical ex- 

 perience, while the forest botany is given by Dr. 

 A. H. Hutchinson, of the University faculty, and 

 J. Davidson, Esq.. L.L.S., F.B.S.E., Provincial 

 Botanist for British Columbia. 



Field Wcrk Emphasized. 



In presenting the various subjects their prac- 

 tical application to the forest ranger's work is 

 constantly in mind, in addition to which fre- 

 quent field work is a regular part of the pro- 

 gramme. Visits to mills, log-booms for scaling 

 practice, the near-by woods for forest mensura- 

 tion and botanical work are regularly under- 

 taken in order to acquaint the men with as near 

 actual conditions as possible. Before the com- 

 pletion of the course of study it is planned to 

 spend about two weeks upon some tract of 

 timber where all phases of the work may be 

 had, such as forest surveying, log scaling, timber 

 cruising, mapping, identification of species, etc. 



Special Lectures. 



In addition to the prescribed work given by 

 the regular corps of instructors the services of 

 men in the British Columbia and Dominion 

 Forest Branches and others either in the forest 

 or lumbering businesses, are being utilized when- 

 ever possible. Before the Christmas holidays, 

 T. P. MacKenzie, Esq., Grazing Commissioner 

 for British Columbia, favored the class with a 

 comprehensive talk on the plans for utilizing to 

 their fullest capacity the grazing lands of British 

 Columbia, and gave an insight to the great im- 

 portance of the interior forests of the province 

 toward helping to solve the problem of utilizing 

 the grazing ranges to their greatest capacity and 

 for their best development. L. L. Brown, Esq., 

 in charge of the Dominion Timber Testing Lab- 

 oratory, at Vancouver, gave an instructive talk 

 on the strength, stiffness and other qualities of 

 British Columbia species, which was followed 

 by a practical demonstration in testing specimens 

 by means of the Olsen testing machine. On 

 Feb. 13th the class had as a special lecturer 

 the services of Ronald D. Craig, Esq., member 

 of the Commission of Conservation, who dis- 

 coursed on the Forests of British Columbia. Be- 



fore the close of the course the officials of the 

 Dominion Forestry Branch from Alberta and 

 British Columbia, and from the British Columbia 

 Provincial Forest Branch will give talks on such 

 practical forest administration as pertain directly 

 to the work in these branches. 



There are enrolled for this course th" follow- 

 ing named men: J. Brackley, A. I. Braithwaite, 

 Wm. Bvers, M. Damgaard, M. S. Dick. W. Gid- 

 dings, Robt. Gritten, F. Hamilton, A. J. Home, 

 A. Jackson, P. C. Malmo, T. Paterson, G. T. 

 Schupe, E. 1. Thomas, J. W. Weyman and G. 

 W. Wood, all from British Columbia; and R. 

 Everett, G. H. Fosberry, D. J. Margach, J. H. 

 Rennie, H. M. Taylor, from Alberta. 



Instruction will continue through the month 

 of March and possibly the first two weeks in 

 April, the last two weeks of the course being 

 carried on in actual work in the woods. 



THIS BALANCE REQUIRES ADJUSTING! 



Canada spends on experimental work to aid 

 agricultural production over $700,000 a year. 



Canada spends on experimental work in the 

 cultivation of forests about $30,000 a year. 



This deadening anomaly is a survival of the 

 antiquated notion that forests are a way-station 

 to agriculture, whereas enormous areas of 

 cleared (and barren) lands are merely way- 

 stations to forestry. 



There are more acres of cleared land that 

 must be put under forest than there are acres 

 of forest that can ever properly be turned into 

 farms. 



Says D. E. Hutchins, the noted forester: 



"Forestry is the business of the State, agri- 

 culture of the private individual. This is recog- 

 nized in the schools of political economy the 

 world through. 



"Ordinarily all that the State can do for 

 agriculture is to help the farmer with advice; 

 sometimes with a State farm, and sometimes 

 with seed and fertilizers, when the ordinary 

 trade channels are not satisfactory. Too often 

 experimental farms fail, as does also the Gov- 

 ernment teaching! But it may be fairly as- 

 sumed that in a new country the Government 

 should aid, as far as may be, the farmer and 

 his work. 



"But in forestry it is another story; the Gov- 

 ernment, for better or for worse, has to do the 

 bulk of the work itself, hence a necessary heavy 

 expenditure, such as 7,000,000 pounds sterling 

 a year on forestry in Germany." 



