Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-22
f0REsrY As A PROFESSION.
Where an Education Tor Such Work May Be
Obtained.

What arr You ftt.n. Tor" Is -
question often asked the young coll 'se
! student by older men and in many
cases ii is found To bt. a poser II II
serious aud wsll-cunsidcred answer ~
/" bc given. Some young men early
determine I" follow this or that pre-
tessional calling because II is here di-
tary. ;" 10 speak. in the family. Others
! far" strong inclinations toward som"
particular work, some science. prf-
haps. for which Il taste Wae formed
through casual holiday reading "r
rambling. Tut there are hosts ~
Young men who begin their COLLEGE
work without Il definite purpose. rms
is not L" their discredit. ON" Of ih"i"
reasons FOR going I" c"llrf" Is that II
may help them 10 discover their par
tirular bent ana capacity Profession
IA callinGs are plentiful n"wadaN% and
80 are the aspirants for h"n"iS tn r. ~.
Young men hear u great deal about
su"h pursuits IN their lives ANA very
naturally consider them most when
thinking ~ their own futures. M'dI-
cine, surgery. architecture. art. ht"iH-
'urr engineering ia is many hrar' ~
.'s law. music. pedagogy. 'll this A
already w.ll-SuII,ii"d cHliinES ind
confident new followers year after
wear. II has been said thai th"S-
professions m" w-ll--urp'i-d. '"Vrr-
crowded. j. ~" word most often
used. and Yet IL H. certainly ira" that
tn.!" u always room for :, hard worker
~ lenius ia amy of the" fields
There T. another professional field.
/ h"w"v-r which - now opening :" tho
young men ~ this country. ana - II b.
rev and as Vet little pra"tts"d our
boys hear of il seldom "r never. aUd
consequently II is not weighed in The
balance with other possibilities. II g.
hoped that this article may serve -
can attention /" this nrw opportunity
for vigorous young Americans First.
II, w"vcr. let the man who is looking
Tor a nap he warned that her is ne
place Tor him.
The new opening j. In forestry. or
forest engineering a. II ~ coming Ia
ie called. and in q country with such
vast forest tracts as ours tracts ttted
for nothing but forest growth and adj
mirably adapted to that. with vast
"a pital and labor .l.pc ndnE .n ~"
i
evident that there is q field ior the
forest engineer. tho man vino knows
how To- kee. NJ the annual supply for
cln-- Forestry ~ N profession Is nut
r-v /" "a" World. for it has been prac-
ti~tl With profit BY generations ~ tn"
rGp'- thrifty European races T. j.
NV 4" Thu country because the tim"
/, oHly just In,e for it, employment
III MS become essential u th~ con-
tiuu"d prosperity IS our lumber in
du.'ry IL .t~ producing ANA mauufat-
turing branches With IN iu.rrasint:
population .n -rn.,ai prosperity lccIl
'or,.umpliou ~ tinl". has multiplied
larulN. TING irmauI from abroad IL
alSo continuous ana growing. II meet
!, we raN" rcry certain ana fixed
Stock al grow ing timber. and much NJ
III" best timbt. lama Is abandoned tu
absolute desert was t. aft - b. ing clean
tut. @~ thu. phrase is. Forestry The
applied scIenc.. Of growing trees for
croft. would u"y"t -"rctinn Sucn
shift. -. sh,:t-Sightcti. yea. suicidal
methods II would k-,r in growing
timber. ara that If the kinds h.et
suited I" thu particular soil ami mar
't't. every acre II land which was not
rn"l" valuable for agriculture BALD
ing ar som" other form Of business en-
trrpri~e.
IL brief. ii may he said that the
wealth produced from our American
forests each year exec ds in Valu" the !
total product Of All the gold silver |
'"rl''i. iron. lead and coal mines. ana |
ih' value Of this crop surpasSes that ~ |
tn" wheat and cotton fields combined. +.
ia" statistics nf our national trade I,
bear out th.s" statements In similar
~ abbreviated form IL can hr sa'd that /
inns country Is now AMI has been for |
several years past u~in. fully rifty |
'"'r cent. more wood per anlum Toy an |
purposes then the forests car produce. |
un'Iel natural conditions. What thoS,. |
forests can 10 when skilfuily assisted |
ny future generations Of forest en- ,
cli"rrS is fnr those men to prove. /
surely there will not be the Nantoa |
vast" which goes on today tand that
i"litISr stopped can properly IL.
that@"d VI to the credit IF incvcas "a /
Modu"ti"n>. ana the trees w!ll grow
faster for being given the proper con-
"lti"nS without the necessity of their
irhiin: fer them single handed
All this has been realized by III.
icI"ral government. and some thirty
million acres have already been st
sid" l,y presidential proclamation as
permanent timber reservations. These
"rchl forest tracts. mostly in the
n"untairs of the far Wts. ar. To II.
inana@rh according; to scientific meth
'iS. ana this means that the United
states government will become :. large,
'hp"N"' "f forest engineers Of various
p:a't'. Tar state ~ New York has
e>t;Ii''it h''d :: timber reservation Of
hi''tr nan a million acres in the
\"l:"hua"E region: Pennsylvania has
feGiili T." ;c'iuire forest lands within
h"r territory: other states will surely
Follow before long. and Ill these will
Dee One employers If skilled forc.t,-s
y i'w Of the large timber np rat,rs.
concerns which own their forests ana
q" not simply buy IL" S..:npag-. have
retained forcstrfs to pian |
" ir cut $" as I" provide for the per- {
petuation of their capital The lead