NORWAY’S 
FOREST SCHOOL 
The first of the continental forest schools 
visited by the writer was that of Norway. It 
is a department of the Norwegian College of 
Agriculture, an institution situated at Aas, a 
small village some 20 miles south of Kristi- 
ania. The course covers a period of three 
years and is open to all students who can com- 
ply with the entrance requirements. The de- 
partment has the use of certain rooms in the 
general college building and is at the present 
time somewhat handicapped for space. The 
teaching staff in forestry consists of two full 
professors, with instructors and assistants. 
The students take their other work, in the 
fundamental sciences and in allied subjects, 
in the other departments of the college, just 
as do the students in one of our own state 
universities. Prof. Agnar Barth has just be- 
come head of the department, a man well 
systematized as it is for instance in Sweden. 
Also it has been difficult during and since the 
war to obtain as large appropriations for the 
school as are needed. For this reason the 
development has been less rapid than those 
in charge of the school could wish. But with 
the gradual return of better times the Nor- 
wegian Forest School will doubtless come in 
for a larger share of support. 
There is a feeling in some quarters that it 
would have been better had the school been 
located at Kristiania, “as a part of the Uni- 
versity of Norway, rather than at Aas as a 
department of the Norwegian College of Agri- 
culture, but there seems small likelihood now 
of a transfer being effected. 
SWEDEN’S 
FOREST SCHOOL 
Forestry in Sweden, as has been noted in 
an earlier letter, is patterned much on Ger- 
man models. The whoie organization is high- 
THE 
NORWEGIAN 
NATIONAL 
COLLEGE 
OF AGRI- 
CULTURE, AT 
AAS, NEAR 
KRISTIANIA, 
OF WHICH THE 
SCHOOL OF 
FORESTRY IS A 
DEPARTMENT. 
known in Norway from his books on forestry 
and because of the administrative ability that 
he has shown in work under the Norwegian 
Forest Service. A college forest has lately 
been acquired, at Larvik, to which the facul- 
ty and students repair for the field work that 
constitutes a part of the instruction. In ad- 
dition candidates for the forestry course must 
have had a rather extended period of work in 
the forest before they are permitted to enroll. 
The graduates are not given degrees, as 
with us, but are designated ‘“forst kandidat”. 
Those who enter the forest service serve at 
first under the older officers for a probation- 
ary period, later to work up to positions of 
responsibility as opportunity offers for pro- 
motion. 
The relation between the Norwegian For- 
est Service and the forest school is intimate, 
but not as direct as in some of the other 
countries. Like other features of Norwegian 
forestry, education in forestry is not as highly 
ly systematized, the forest school perhaps 
even more so than other branches of the 
service. The course covers a period of three 
years. Upon graduation the students are elig- 
ible for appointment in the forest service. 
The Swedish Forest School is the best 
housed of any of the forest schools on the 
continent. Established in 1828, it became the 
College of Forestry in 1912. In 1917 the 
school moved into a large and admirably 
equipped four story building that stands in 
ample grounds in the suburbs of Stockholm. 
One of the special features about this school 
is the importance that is attached to the ex- 
hibits and collections that illustrate the va- 
rious phases of forestry. Spacious exhibition 
halls, with museum cases filled with objects 
pertaining to a specific subject, are found on 
each floor. Adjoining these halls are the 
lecture and class rooms used for instruction 
in that particular branch. The students are 
thus brought into close and constant contact 
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