454 Japan. 



Education in forestry has lately run riot in Japan as 

 it has in the United States. Since the first school, or- 

 ganized in 1882, not less than 62 institutions had 

 seen the need of offering the opportunity to become 

 acquainted with that subject. By 1910, these had 

 been reduced to 47. Here, however, different grades 

 are frankly acknowledged. There are three collegiate 

 institutions whose diploma admits to the higher ser- 

 vice, four are of secondary grade, nineteen give special 

 courses, and the rest treat the subject merely as a 

 subsidiary of a practical education including agri- 

 culture, stock-farming and fishery. A ranger school, 

 which was instituted under Matsuno's guidance, 

 controlled by the forestry bureau, came to an end 

 during the Russian war for lack of funds, but has 

 probably been revived again. 



A forestry association now with 4000 members 

 carries on propaganda and publishes a magazine, and 

 co-operative associations among small owners to 

 facilitate better management are being formed under 

 the law of 1907. 



In conclusion, we may say that Japan has done 

 wonders in reorganizing its forestry system in a short 

 time, but, according to one competent observer, 

 while all the Japanese care for detail and love for 

 orderliness is apparent in the office, not all that is 

 found on paper is to be found as yet in the woods, 

 and that, for similar reasons as have been indicated 

 for Russia; many things happen in the woods that are 

 not known in the office. 



