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of this law, that the reduction in forest fires is 

 largely a matter of education and the development 

 of morals, which must come in time. Moreover,^ 

 when real forestry is begun, when waste lands are 

 not any more abandoned as useless, but planted to 

 valuable timber, when forest properties are really 

 managed for continuity, in short, when forestry is 

 practised, both the necessity and the desire for 

 careful protection of a valuable piece of property 

 will bring about a cessation of incendiarism ; and 

 the practice of forestry will soon come, when edu- 

 cated foresters can be had to practise it* 



For the education of such, provision is being rap- 

 idly made by the establishment of special forestry 

 schools or of courses in forestry in existing institu- 

 tions. Here again the state of New York recog- 

 nized its educational function by establishing, in 

 1898, the State College of Forestry at Cornell 

 University. With the establishment of this first 

 professional forestry school, we may say that the 

 art of forestry was removed from the mere field of 

 discussion, and engrafted on our educational sys- 

 tem, insuring a new era for rational forestry 

 methods. 



In the following year, Yale University estab- 

 lished such a school, and a private school was 

 established about the same time on the Vanderbilt 

 estate at Biltmore, N. C. Before this time and 

 since, the land-grant colleges of several states had 

 introduced at least courses on subjects touching 



