230 FOREST PLANTING. 



With the introduction of systematic forestry men 

 trained in all branches of forest planting, and in the 

 protection and exploitation of forests will be required 

 in great numbers. Referring to what has been said on 

 this subject in Chapter V., Part I., the following re- 

 marks may serve to give some more useful hints in this 

 regard. 



For the proper management of large forests there are 

 required two classes of officials, besides common labor- 

 ers, viz.: 1. The persons of the forest administration 

 service occupying the higher jplaces in the department, 

 supervising the entire business and giving directions to 

 the local officials in the forest service for the suitable 

 methods of cultivating and exploiting the several 

 wooded tracts entrusted to the care of subordinate offi- 

 cials as foresters and their assistants. 2. These subordi- 

 nate officials, although occupying the inferior places in 

 the service, are with us in the present transitory stage 

 of converting the wild woods into cultivated forests of 

 the highest importance, because the principal work 

 during the first years will, besides the engineers' work 

 of laying out and rendering passable the necessary 

 roads through the woods, consist of cleaning and clear- 

 ing out the thickets, felling off mature and overmature 

 trees, removing them out of the woods and preparing 

 them for the auction sale and the market, putting the 

 denuded woodlands in the proper condition for the recep- 

 tion of seeds or plants, and reforesting them. 



"With the further development of the profession, to 

 be built up by introducing scientific forestry in this 

 State and country, there will undoubtedly appear forest 

 officials of the class No. 1, who have received besides 

 practical instruction in the culture and management of 

 forests, an university education to fit them for the for- 



