628 SCHOOLS OF FOKESTRY. 



SECOND YEAR. 



Winter term, (as in first year). 



Honn. 



Forest EconoDiy: Amenagement; estimation, 75 lessons orally, of IJ hours each, 



112.5 hours; study, 112.5 225 



Natural History: Mineralogy ; study of minerals and rocks ; geology and geolog- 

 ical description of France, 75 lessons orally, 112. 5 hours ; study, 112. 5 hours. 225 



Law : Study of the law of property completed; legal relations of real estate, 

 between personal estate and persons, and between persons; administration 

 of forests subjected to the rules of forestry; 50 lessons orally, 75 hours; 

 studies, 75 hours 150 



Mathematics: Topography, part 3; Triangnlation, 15 lessons orally; sawmills, 



35 lessons orally. 75 hours ; studies, 75 hours; drawing, 162. 5 hours 312.5 



German Language : 50 lessons, 75 hours; studies, 37. 5 hours 112.5 



Military Instruction : 25 lessons orally, each 2 hours, 50 hours ; studies, 100 hours ; 



exercise, 100 hours 250 



Horsemanship 75 



Free study hoars in morning.... 150 



Total 1,500 



Summer term, (as in first year). 



Dayi. 

 (A.) Out-door labors : Exercises of amengement in the forests of Menrthe, and 



Moselle, and Aisne 23 



yriangulations 6 



Surveys . ... 2 



Study of saw-mills in the Vosges 10 



Military reconnoissances ; shooting 8 



(B.) In-door labors : 



Writing a memoir upon the study of amenagement, and reduction of an 



official plan for the same 14 



Designing, calculations, and report 11 



Examinations and preparation 28 



Free days 18 



Total days in summer term 120 



Third year, (Theoretical instruction.) 

 Winter term, 5 months, (November 1 to March 31.) 



Hours. 

 Forest Economy : Forest statistics ; political economy, 40 lessons orally of 1^ les- 

 sons each 60 



Natural History: General, forestal, and agricultural zoology, 40 lessons orally 60 



Laiv : Law of the chase; fixing of dunes; reboisement and sodding of mount- 

 ains, 20 lessons orally 30 



principles of administration and management of a cantonnement, 40 lessons 



orally, each 3 nours 120 



Agriculture: Laws of vegetable and animal production; agriculture proper, 40 



lessons orally 60 



German Language: 40 lessons orally - 60 



Total 390 



Gardes-generaux of the first stage are allowed to work freely, without being required 

 to assist in the studies. 



(Practical iustmetion.) 



O^ce-tvorJc : Two days are devoted in each week to the office of inspection, and to the 

 various administrative duties relative to the current service. 



Forest-work : Two days in each week are given to various reconnaissances, the super- 

 vision of workings, surveys, study of domainal and commercial series, etc. 



Summer term, 5 months, (April 1 to August 31.) 



April : Participation in all the operations of marking and of cutting in the domainal 

 and communal forests under the care of the school, preparation of reports of mark- 

 ing, estimation and cutting. 



May, June, and July : Forestal journey into the high-foresta of oak in Central France; 



