AN AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF AMERICAN FORESTRY. 39 
In considering these figures, it must be remembered that the scheme 
provides not only for the training of cadets, but also for short courses for 
officers already employed; and, not least, the carrying out of investigative, 
experimentative, and planning work in practical administration problems. 
The figures provide for the keep of the students, and an allowance of 10s. 
per week. 
An alternative scheme would be to eliminate the board and residence 
provision, and arrange for such in the adjacent town. 
The cost of the two months’ field work provided for in the curriculum 
is not included in the annual charges, because it is believed that it will be 
more than balanced by the value of the work accomplished. 
It is possible that arrangements could be made to distribute the students 
among the assessors, experimentalists, or general field staff as winter assistants 
for special survey and assessment projects, with the incidental aim of affording 
actual bush experience. 
Ii board be provided, arrangements should be on the cafeteria, or self- 
waiting principle. . 
As regards the forest engineer, I recommend the despatch of an Australian 
graduate in engineering to the United States of America for a special course 
in forest engineering ; alternatively, the employment for a term of five years 
of an American forest engineer. 
An essential part of the scheme of forestry education is the short course 
of instruction for officers already employed. 
In fact, the first work undertaken by the school might be a “short 
course,” so that the ambitious element to be found in every Forest Service 
may be fitted to at once advance the immediate aims of the Forestry Depart- 
ment, and devélop a higher phase of work. 
The training might be given in the summer months, when field work is least 
pressing and inviting. It should consist of three months’ instruction on the 
lines adopted by the Montana and Washington schools, wide the attached 
summary. 
The course should feature forest survey and assessment, scientific manage- 
ment as applied to forest administration, forest mensuration, and forest 
appraisals. 
A second year short course could be furnished later, if found advisable. 
Short Courses—Curricula Comparisons. 
Ranger. 
First YEAR. 
Montana. Washington. 
Silviculture: Tree requirements;  re- 
generation; systems of cutting 
nursery work and planting. 
Scaling and Cruising : Scale rules; de- Forest Measurements : Log rules ; heights 
fects ; cruising. and diameters; volume tables ; 
scaling and cruising. 
Surveying and Mapping : Instruments ; Forest Surveying : Engineering drawing ; 
levelling ; map-making. topography, and map drawing; 
chain, compass, level, clinometer 
transit, 
