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II. Silviculture, management, utilization and exploitation of forests: 

 Definitions, limits of production, climate, forest soil, species in mixture, the 



stands, forests, blanks, openings, cover, shade, cuttings, rotation, yield, trees 

 from seed, sprouts, suckers, management, methods of treatment (simple coppice, 

 coppice under standards, high forest), exploitation and sale of forest products 

 (fuel, logs, bark, turpentine), and forest mensuration. 



III. Conceptions of the law and duty of guards (rangers). 



The organization of the forest service — offices and employees; franchises, 

 responsibility, jurisdiction, disputes, prohibitions, leave, penalties, etc., relative 

 to officers and employees ; appointment of employees and miscellaneous advice ; 

 general law, administrative law and rural legislation; civil judicial courts, re- 

 pressive judicial courts, court of appeal; criminal law suits; trespass and control 

 of trespass; frauds; free use zones; inspection of logging; rights; clearing 

 private and communal woods, encouragement of reforestation; destruction of 

 insects; treatment of diseases of trees; private forest guards and laws relating 

 to hunting and fishing. 



IV. Mathematics: 



Arithmetic through proportion, the metric system and plane geometry. 



V. Topography: 



Simple surveying and mapping. 



VI. Forest betterments : 



Miscellaneous units (day's work, linear, square and cubic meter, job, etc.) ; 

 improvements (by the administration, by contract) ; miscellaneous work (lime, 

 mortar, sand, cement, masonry) ; ranger houses (maintenance and repairs) ; 

 fences, walls, ditches, lanes, pack trails, paths and walks (construction and main- 

 tenance) ; reforestation areas (denuded areas, clearings, landslides, etc.) ; artificial 

 stocking (species, the collection, quality and storage of seed, direct seeding, 

 nurseries, plantations). 



VII. Hunting and breeding. 



VIII. Fishing and fish breeding. 



IX. The French language. 



The excellent school at Bruck, in Stiermark, Austria, that prepares 

 men for subordinate positions in the Austrian Alps, and the forest college at 

 Dehra Diin, India, that trains men for subordinate positions in the Indian Forest 

 Service, as well as for private practice, are excellent examples of schools in 

 which the course extends over a period of three years. In these schools the train- 

 ing is not confined to forestry subjects as such but includes the various founda- 

 tion subjects. The entrance requirements are strict, particularly as relates to 

 moral and physical health. At Dehra Diin the candidate for admission to the 

 school must be between eighteen and twenty-five years of age. He must present 

 an acceptable certificate of health and a certificate signed by at least two re- 

 sponsible persons as to his respectibility and moral character. He must also 

 present a certificate showing that he has passed the high school examinations 

 or other evidence of at least equal intellectual attainments. The subjects of the 

 first two years of the course with their respective weights are as follows: 



