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tion, it has the great advantage of being located on 

 Biltmore estate, where Mr. Pinchot introduced scien- 

 tific forest management into the United States in 1891, 

 which good work has been kept going by the able 

 founder and director of the school, Doctor Schenck. 



The two years of graduate forest work afforded 

 by the University of Michigan began in 1903, and the 

 department has grown in every way. 



Harvard, Maine, Minnesota, and Nebraska univer- 

 sities, and Iowa State College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanical Arts have departments of forestry. Most 

 of the agricultural colleges offer some instruction in 

 forestry in connection with the courses in botany, 

 horticulture, or the like. 



In several cases high schools are following the lead 

 of the universities, and more would doubtless do so if 

 the teachers were properly equipped. The Secretary 

 of Agriculture declares that the rapid increase of inter- 

 est in forestry throughout the country is nowhere more 

 noticeable than in educational circles. 



Such is the attitude of many of our educational 

 institutions toward forestry, and yet only a short time 

 ago I heard it argued that instruction in forestry 

 should be given in isolated, independent schools; that 

 it should constitute no part of a university course. 

 Continental Europe settled that question more than 

 a quarter of a century ago, when, says Mr. B. G. 

 Northrup, "a congress of foresters, which was at Frei- 

 burg and attended by nearly four hundred members, 

 representing all parts of Germany, Switzerland, Aus- 

 tria, and Russia, after a long and spirited discussion 

 by prominent professors from both classes of forest 

 schools, decided by an almost unanimous vote (only 

 sixteen dissenting) in favor of combining instruction 

 in forestry with other departments in the university; 



