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on with ordinary unskilled labor, where labor was 

 required. The time will speedily come when we can 

 pay liberal salaries to properly educated foresters, to 

 produce and to work out a comprehensive plan for our 

 operations. It is not here yet. To tide over the 

 difficulty we have opened a forest academy in the 

 South Mountain Reservation, and we have now twenty 

 young men receiving elementary forestry instruction 

 there. It is hoped to greatly extend the curriculum 

 in the near future. One feature of our method of 

 instruction is that our pupils divide their time about 

 equally between manual labor in forestry and their 

 studies. Thus far the combination has given fairly 

 satisfactory results, and for the present we are in- 

 clined to continue it. 



Pennsylvania has, we believe judiciously, started to 

 utilize her forest reservations as sanatoria for cure 

 of cases of incipient tuberculosis. Of course, the 

 patients are not allowed to run at random over the 

 ground and locate anywhere, but a place is set apart 

 for them. The State has provided cottages and cabins 

 and we now have, in the South Mountain, a colony 

 of about thirty such invalids who are taking the fresh 

 air cure. The results obtained have, in many in- 

 stances, been remarkable. The probabilities are that 

 this work will be greatly enlarged during the next 

 few years. 



On the whole, the outlook for forestry in Pennsyl- 

 vania is hopeful. Some of our laws may be improved, 

 but we have no legal or constitutional restrictions upon 

 us which interfere with development of conservative 

 forestry ideas or plans. 



