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est administration sei-vice, and to apply their widened 

 knowledge and experience for the benefit of the State 

 by increasing the revenues of the forests entrusted to 

 their care. But, at present, we need, ])ar excellence, men 

 of class 2, practically instructed in the everyday rou- 

 tine of systematic forest management, after having 

 received the education of the average graduate from a 

 country school. To impart such an education and to 

 accustom the students to a strict moral conduct and a 

 rigid, nearly military discipline, without which no large 

 forest can be managed successfully, the immediate 

 establishment of a. forest school within the Adirondack 

 Park should be insisted upon. There young men be- 

 tween 18 and 22 years old should receive an elementary 

 education and practical instruction under the direction 

 of an approved forester.* This school should be located 

 at a place where the teacher, for purposes of practical 

 instruction, can have at his disposition an extended area 

 consisting of standing wood, denuded woodlands, and a 

 well-equipped nursery. The students should be com- 

 pelled to devote half of the time of their education for 

 performing every manual work that is required to be 

 done in the proper management and exploitation of 

 forests. Referring as for the rest to what has been said 

 in this regard on page 33, sqq., it might not be amiss to 

 remember the experiences we have made with our agri- 

 cultural schoolsf and not to raise in this school the 



* We need not to fear a want of scientifically educated foresters. 

 Tlie reverse might come nearer to the truth. See what is said about 

 this subject on page 142, note. 



tThe last report of the Cornell University goes to show that, out of 

 a total number of 1,300 students, only thirty-one are inscribed in the 

 Agricultural Department. " This meagre showing is," as the Practical 

 Farmer lately said, •' not the result of poor or unqualified professors 



