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"According to the best sources of information to which we 

 have had access, a single chair of Forestry in the University 

 would effect little. One professor could give theoretical in- 

 struction, but he could not produce foresters capable of practising 

 their profession. For this field-work is essential. This requires 

 a staff, not of necessity a large one, but adequate to the scope 

 of the work to be done. The Cornell School of Forestry, dis- 

 continued owing to a dispute with the State of New York, was a 

 complete University faculty. The Yale School is also a faculty 

 with three full professorships, those of Botany, Civil Engineering 

 and Lumbering, with many instructors who lecture on different 

 kinds of work in the woods. The laboratory equipment cost 

 about $20,000. At Yale the students must be graduates in Arts. 

 We realize that a beginning may be made without incurring 

 at first all the expenditures of a complete faculty. The Univer- 

 sity courses in Botany, Chemistry and Engineering could be 

 utilized for the instruction required in these branches and this 

 could be supplemented by a forestry staff of three possessing the 

 special knowledge demianded to carry on both inside and field 

 work. The possession by the Crow^n of timber lands where 

 practical instruction and experiments could be carried on 

 simplifies the situation, and we recommend that the closest 

 co-operation compatible with the end sought should exist be- 

 tween the University authorities and the Department of Lands. 

 It should likewise be kept in view that the private owners of 

 timber lands have a direct interest in the supply of trained men 

 produced by such a school, and in the results of the experiments 

 made. In the United States the National Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion is subscribing a fund of $150,000 to endow courses of instruc- 

 tion at Yale. Similar action in Canada should be encouraged. 

 We are strongly of the view that the people of Ontario will 

 endorse the action of the Government in creating a School of 

 Forestry, by means of which the scientific treatment of our 

 forests can be effectivelv carried out." 



