THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



mercial methods of wood preservation, and 

 its relation to the timber supply. 



Lumbering : 



Lumbering tlie Forester should know 

 more than a little about, as how to organize 

 lumber operations, the equipment and 

 management of logging and milling in vari- 

 ous forest regions, the manufacture, season- 

 ing, and grading of the rough and finished 

 lumber, cost keeping in a lumber business, 

 methods of sale, market requirements at 

 home and abroad, prices, the relation of the 

 lumber tariff to forestry, lumber associa- 

 tions, timber bonds, and insurance. The 

 practical construction of logging equipment, 

 such as aerial tramways, log slides, dams, 

 and flumes, is of peculiar importance, and 

 so are the conditions and changes of the 

 lumber market. 



Experience on the land of some operat- 



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