18 Courses in Forestiy 



schools in our country, has been encouraging. Not a single one of 

 the entire number, who was properly equipped to take a forester's 

 position at all, is without a position, and no one is serving at a salary 

 of less than $1,000 per year, surely a most remarkable showing for 

 young men fresh from school. 



As to the prospective forester himself, he should be a man of good 

 physique, good disposition, frugal habits, absolute honesty, and 

 thorough training. Half prepared men are of little use in forestry, es- 

 pecially in this beginning stage of the profession in our country. The 

 forestry graduate in Germany goes into service under an experienced, 

 well trained master, just as our graduate does in railway service. 

 The forestry graduate in our country must plan for himself and may 

 often have to persuade his employer of the need of any plan at all. 



It is strong, well prepared men, therefore, who are wanted in 

 forestry, but to these the profession not only assures a good living, 

 but a life of highest usefulness and interest. 



