THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



be little or no time to fill the gaps left at 

 school, and the earnest desire of the young 

 Forester will be that he had spent more time 

 in his preparation rather than less. In this 

 matter I speak as one who has gathered a 

 conviction from personal experience, and be- 

 lieves he knows. 



It would be useless to attempt to strike 

 an average of the work prescribed and the 

 courses given at the various forest schools. 

 I shall describe, therefore, not an average 

 system of instruction but one which, in the 

 judgment of men entitled to an opinion, and 

 in my own judgment, is sound, practical, and 

 eiFective. 



Forest schools may roughly be divided 

 between those which do not prepare men 

 for professional work in forestry, and those 

 which do. The latter may be divided again 

 into undergraduate schools and graduate 

 schools. Most of the former offer a four- 



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