112 FORESTRY OF JAPAN. 



Agricultural Colleges and the Practical Forest courses attached 

 to the Universities have sent out 665 graduates. Of the 41 

 schools of the Industrial School grade, 19 are those which give 

 the higher course of forest education and which have it as 

 their object to train experts desiring to offer their services to 

 private forest enterprises. They are established by the local 

 governments and are under the direct charge of the local 

 governors, the Educational Department only supervising them 

 indirectly from the necessity of unifying the industrial educa- 

 tion of the country. They receive an annual State subsidy and 

 the pupils enjoy the same privileges as the students of Middle 

 School, namely, the exemption from conscription duty during 

 the undergraduate days and the qualification to become State 

 official of the lower order after graduation. Their courses arc 

 finished in from 3 to 4 years and the aggregate number of 

 their graduates amounts to 457. 



The forest schools of the lower industrial school grade 

 number 22 in all. They are not accorded the privilege of the 

 temporary exemption from conscription duty, though they 

 receive a State subsidy. They are called " B Class Industrial 

 School." The under-graduates of primary schools are admit- 

 ted into these schools and are instructed in the elementary 

 course of forestry which takes 3 years to graduate. 



Besides those above mentioned, there exists a still lower 

 order of industrial schools named "The Industrial Auxiliary 

 School." They chose various subjects according to the re- 

 quirements of the localities in which they are situated and give 

 simple lessons to the pupils. Not a few schools are found 

 among them which deal with the forest industry. There arc 



