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The farmer, who is occupied most of the year in other employment, can very 

 well afford, incidentally, to pay attention to his wood-lot, to put in for improve- 

 ment of this part of his property an occasional day, and make a paying adjunct to 

 his business. 



The owner of a game preserve or a park property may, from time to time, inter- 

 mittently or continuously, in addition to his pleasure, secure such portions of his 

 forest crop as becomes salable, and apply the silvicultural art, incidentally carrying 

 on the business of wood-cropping. 



In the end, however, the large market which, in the United States, calls for a 

 round 40,000,000,000 feet of lumber of various description annually, of which three- 

 quarters is of coniferous wood, that cannot be grown in less than seventy-five to one 

 hundred years or more from seeding, must be supplied mainly by the large operators 

 before mentioned. 



Forestry a Cosmopolitan Art. 



From the statement that the difference of business conditions in Germany and 

 the United States do not permit a direct transfer of German forestry methods to 

 American conditions, it must not be argued that we cannot learn much from Ger- 

 many. Quite the contrary is true, and those who have asserted that " American " 

 forestry must differ radically from " German " forestry overlook the fact that, 

 while .business methods may vary, the fundamental principles which underlie the 

 technique as well as the business methods remain the same in all parts of the 

 world. 



A College or University is, supposedly, a place where sciences and arts are 

 studied and taught, not according to limited patriotic lines and limitations, but in 

 their broadest, world-wide bearing, so that the student may become fit to build out 

 or apply the same under whatever circumstances he may be placed. 



That the sciences of mathematics, of chemistry, of physics, of botany, zoology, 

 and geology do not owe any allegiance to a particular country has long been recog- 

 nized ; but the arts, because they exhibit varying forms in various countries, have 

 appeared, more or less, to lack cosmopolitan character to those who are unable to 

 recognize the laws of science, of which the arts are, ultimately, the formal expres- 

 sion by man — varying, to be sure, with the conditions under which they are 

 applied. 



It is true that we have not recognized and formulated all the laws of nature, and 

 hence, for instance, the medical art has relied and often still relies upon empiricism 

 in lieu of science. 



The economic arts have suffered especially for lack of scientific basis, largely, we 



