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course it was found that there was an 

 almost immediate demand by young 

 lumbermen and by woodland owners 

 for a similar class of instruction, and a 

 modified short course to meet this de- 

 mand was given for the first time in 

 3910. Both of these courses are work- 

 ing out most admirably, so much so, 

 that it was found necessary to extend 

 the Ranger Course over two years of 

 twelve weeks each. 



Another field which the Washington 

 College of Forestry had in mind from 

 the first, that of logging engineering 

 is now opening up. While compara- 

 tively few lumbermen are ready to take 

 on men strictly as foresters, they are 

 ready to employ men who combine with 

 their forestry training a sufficient 

 knowledge of civil and mechanical en- 

 gineering to enable them to lay out 

 logging roads and after a term of ap- 

 prenticeship to take charge of logging 

 operations. The school is now prepared 



to offer a lumberman's group designed 

 especially to meet the needs of young 

 men preparing to take charge of log- 

 ging and milling operations, or wishing 

 to enter upon a business career in some 

 phase of the lumber industry. 



Still another field for which the 

 school will need to provide in order to 

 meet the local demands, that of en- 

 gineer in forest products, is just be- 

 ginning to assert itself. Wood preser- 

 vation and the manufacture of by- 

 products are rapidly becoming neces- 

 sary adjuncts to tlu- saw mill. Much 

 of the present enormou- waste will 

 lend itself to remanufacture or to the 

 manufacture of by-products. The in- 

 creasing cost of raw material is making 

 this necessary. It is now possible to 

 utilize at a substantial profit much of 

 the waste which it was formerly neces- 

 sary to get rid of at considerable ex- 

 pense. 



