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years leading to the degree of Forest Engineer; the Yale Forest 
School, with a two-years’ course, open to college graduates, leading 
to the degree of Master of Forestry; and the Biltmore Forest School, 
in which the course covers one year and does not lead to a degree. 
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 Dr. B. E. Fernow, Director, New York 
State College of Forestry, Ithaca, New York; Prof: Henry S. 
Graves, Director, Yale Forest School, New Haven, Connecticut; 
and Dr. C. A. Schenck, Biltmore, North Carolina. 
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 
systematic studies in this country by six months to a year spent in 
studying the effects of forestry upon the forest in Kurope. Although 
European forest methods can seldom be adopted without modifica- 
tion in this country, they have been rich in suggestion in the appli- 
cation of practical 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 Kurope, 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 preparation; that no matter how high his | 
natural abilities may be, the insufficiently trained forester cannot 
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 difficulties which require above | 
all a thorough understanding of his work in the man who undertakes | 
to deal with them. | 
