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lines, and fire towers ; the estimate of timber and the calcula- 

 tion of its growth, value, and financial returns, the directing of 

 labor ; the keeping of records and accounts ; and some knowl- 

 edge of business and forest law. This requires an underlying 

 training in mathematics, botany, zoology, chemistry and geo- 

 logy, as well as history, language, and economics. 



The practical application of this training is the large feature 

 of the school, for the entire course may be said to be given in 

 the 25,000 acres of State forest in which the school is located. 

 All the activities of the forester are followed in the woods from 

 the growing of trees from seed in the nursery attached, to the 

 grinding of the forest student's own axe, the cutting of unde- 

 sirable trees into cordwood, and the mature trees into saw-logs, 

 as well as their manufacture into lumber, lath, and shingles on 

 the school mill ; from the day and night fighting of forest fires 

 and the pick and shovel building of roads to the construction of 

 a thorough plan of forest management for a large tract of forest 

 land. 



The students return to the State in the form of this labor in 

 the forest a considerable part of the expense incurred in their 

 training. In greater efficiency and enthusiasm in their forest 

 work afterward the State becomes their debtor. 



ADMINISTRATION. 



The State places on the Commissioner of Forestry, advised 

 by the Forestry Reservation Commission, the responsibility for 

 the carrying on of the school. The immediate charge is placed 

 in the hands of a director and four other instructors, all of whom 

 have enjoyed special training in their respective fields of in- 

 struction. 



