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salaries as the standard. Where the forester works into a regular 

 lousiness, however, as for example into the lumber business, his 

 remuneration will depend more upon his business capacity and what 

 he can do for the company in a business way than upon his technical 

 attainments. Without any question some consulting foresters wall 

 be able to carry on a very prosperous business, especially when they 

 have established a national reputation which will cause a demand for 

 1 iieir services in the solution of particularly important problems. 



TEACHING AND RESEARCH WORK. 



The vocation of teaching offers many advantages to the technical 

 forester. ^Aliile the field is a rather limited one, there are still many 

 openings for men ^^-ith practical field experience and ability as 

 teachers. The comparatively large number of schools in this country 

 now offering complete courses in forestry has demanded more men 

 \^ath experience than could readily be found, and it is not likely that 

 tliis field \vil[ soon be overcrowded. The teacher of forestry has the 

 advantage of being able to spend much of his time in the field and to 

 carry on original studies in connection with the regular school work. 



Closely associated \\dth educational work is research work. So far 

 this is an almost untouched field. There can be no question, however, 

 that it is an extremely important one, which offers attractive oppor- 

 tunities to a limited number of suitably trained men. Carefully 

 conducted scientific investigations must lay the foundation for all 

 practical woods work, and the men who carry on these investigations 

 are really guidmg the development of forestry. These investigations 

 must be not only along lines which have always been generally recog- 

 nized as belonging to forestry, but also along such lines as forest 

 entomology, pathology, meteorology, and soils. It can hardly be 

 questioned that in investigations of this character a technical and 

 practical training in forestry would be of especial value. 



Research work will be carried on at educational institutions, by 

 tlie Federal Government, to some extent by the individual States, 

 and possibly at privately supported experiment stations. As in 

 other scientific work the compensation wall not usually be so large as 

 for high-grade administrative work, but will undoubtedly be suffi- 

 cient to afford a comfortable living. 



Approved : 



James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. . 

 Washington, D. C, July 1, 1912. 



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