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;il This s his plan, and as we iearn anything by 

 it se to': ;er h y ' pr^ct^al one-the best adaption to 

 his conditions. 



We have made this brief reference to the way in which the problem of 

 training men Tor practical lumbering has been worked out in a graduate 



"oUfforestry such as Harvard, because it is rich in suggestion to us. We 

 S^^SS* * course in forestry in a country where lumbering 

 ?s the leading industry, and one from which not only the private individual 

 and corporation, but the Province also, derives a very large revenue. Couple 

 with thTs a suggestion, and the only one offered at the conference, m regard 

 To this plan-L/ it might be better if the students took pan in an actual 

 lumbering operation-^ some conception or the possibilities presented 

 to the teacher of forestry here will strike you as forcibly as it did me. 1 o 

 show you how it could be worked out is the purpose of this paper, and the 

 plan will unfold itself as I proceed. 



First, some information as to the undergraduate course of four years 

 in Forestry offered in the University of New Brunswick may be in order. 

 We believe the affiliation of such a course with a school of Engineering 

 possesses certain advantages. First, because Forestry is a branch of Engi- 

 neering, and, secondly, the Engineering student has a peculiar aptitude for 

 it through his training of eye and hand, which it may talTe the Arts man 

 some time to acquire. 



In the first two years the Engineering student lays the foundation in 

 surveying, drafting, etc., and receives in addition some elementary training 

 in Botany and Forest Botany, with perhaps some of the first principles of 

 Forestry. This Botany work is done in the Forestry Department, Because, 

 as was brought out at this conference by Professor Green, of the University 

 of Minnesota, Botany and also Entomology should be taught from the 

 forester's standpoint. In the Junior year come the usual Forestry subjects, 

 Silviculture, Dendrology, Forest Mensuration, etc., and those methods of 

 topographic surveying adapted to woods work. A course in seeding and 

 planting is given in the spring to illustrate the methods, but as planting in 

 New Brunswick is not a commercial proposition, this subject can receive 

 less attention than in prairie regions. 



With lumbering the leading industry, as we have said, we believe a 

 good deal of stress should be laid upon this subject in the Senior year, and 

 upon utilization, or the uses of wood products. In this subject, as in all 

 others, much work must be done in the forest as some one has well 

 termed it, "the Forester's .laboratory" and our opportunities in this re- 

 spect are almost unexcelled. Just back of the University we have a woods 

 of 3,000 acres, badly culled it is true, but reached in a few minutes for 

 estimatmg, running lines, making forest descriptions, and studying the 

 Our position in this respect is somewhat like that 

 mger school of the west, where the instructor can give a lesson in 

 ulture. and m fifteen minutes be in the woods with his students illus- 

 trating it. 



