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which experience has shown are essential to the preparation 

 of seasoned foresters. When the forestry courses were first 

 established the students went to the forest camp at the close 

 of the junior year. 



There are three reasons for changing the camping period 

 to the close of the sophomore year: 



First, it serves to weed out the faint hearted. The 

 young fellow who thinks forestry was a pink tea is 

 promptly disillusioned and probably eliminated. Second, 

 it enables the student to appreciate better the technical 

 subjects which he will pursue during his junior and senior 

 years. Third, it offers the student during his junior vaca- 

 tion an opportunity to secure employment in his chosen 

 field, thus furnishing money with which to continue his 

 education and valuable practical experience. 



Applying this principal to our own problem, we may 

 send sophomores who would specialize in dairying or animal 

 husbandry to Davis, those who would specialize in agron- 

 omy either to Davis or Fresno, and those who wish to 

 engage in horticultural pursuits or landscape gardening to 

 Fresno or Riverside. When we have a department of For- 

 estry, students can go to the forestry station at Chico or 

 at Santa Monica. Students interested in strictly sub- 

 tropical fruits can be taught at the Imperial Station some 

 of the conditions of management in these rapidly develop- 

 ing and truly fascinating crops. Students who specialize 

 in soils could be taken into the soil survey work and given 

 actual training in soil mapping. If the option is Agri- 

 cultural Chemistry, Plant Pathology or Entomology, the 

 student will find the laboratories at Berkeley open to him, 

 while students of agricultural education will find their 

 training ground in connection with the regular summer 

 school work of the University. 



As we are now organized, students may go to Davis the 

 last half of their senior year, where they can receive in- 

 struction in certain subjects which are developed better 



