open to college graduates, with a two-years course leading to the degree 

 of Master of Science in Forestry; and the Biltmore Forest School, in 

 which the course covers one year. Full information as to the course of 

 training at these schools, the requirements for entrance, and the cost of 

 attendance, may be obtained upon application to Prof. Henry S. Graves, 

 Director, Yale Forest School, New Haven, Conn.; Prof. Filibert Roth, 

 Professor of Forestry, Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Dr. C. A. Schenck, 

 Biltmore, N. C. 



Undergraduate courses in forestry are given at Harvard University, at 

 the University of Maine, at the University of Nebraska, and elsewhere. 



Vacations, so far as possible, should be spent in the woods. The 

 student should take advantage of every opportunity to study forest 

 conditions and to acquaint himself with technical forest methods in 

 field work. He should also see all he can of lumbering, which, on its 

 executive side, is closer to forestry than to any other calling. A good 

 knowledge of the lumberman's methods is an essential part of a forester's 

 education. 



Whenever possible the forest student should supplement his system- 

 atic studies in this country by six months to a year spent in studying 

 the effects of forestry upon the forest in Europe. Although European 

 forest methods can seldom be adopted without modification in this 

 country, they have been rich in suggestion in the application of prac- 

 tical forestry to American forests. The American forest student who 

 puts aside a chance to see forestry in Europe makes the same mistake 

 that a medical student would be guilty of who ignored an opportunity 

 to practice in the best hospitals abroad. 



College or university training, followed by a full course at a forest 

 school and supplemented by work in the woods in this country and in 

 Europe, may not be possible for every student of forestry. A thorough 

 preparation for forestry as a profession should, however, include these 

 lines of work. How many of them the student may omit and still 

 retain a fair chance of success in his profession can not be laid down 

 altogether within hard and fast lines, although study at a forest school 

 has become essential. A great deal must depend upon a man's zeal 

 and industry, and upon his natural fitness for forest # work. On the 

 other hand, the man who is considering forestry as a profession will do 

 well to remember that the only sound basis for success in forestry, as 

 in any other scientific profession, is a thorough and systematic prep- 

 aration ; that no matter how high his natural abilities may be, the 

 insufficiently trained forester can not hope to compete with those who 

 have enjoyed full advantages in their preparation; and that in this 

 country, perhaps more than in any other, forest problems present diffi- 

 culties which require, above all, a thorough understanding of his work 

 in the man who undertakes to deal with them. 



