The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-13
FORESTRY AT YALE.

First Summer Session was a Success. The only thing to be regretted in considering the first season of the Yale Summer School of Forestry at Milford Pa., is the close of the season which
 came at the close of August. The eight
 profitable and delightful weeks have
 passed. Every aid was given in labo-
 ratory, forest and library work. The
 course was made as comprehensive and and the students will be able to contin-
 ue their study from the many authori-
 ties to which they have been directed.
 The school has a great advantage in its
 location. In the mixed forest which
 surrounds it, or Is within easy walking
 reach may be found nearly hundred
 and fifty varieties of trees and shrubs.
 The generosity and wisdom of the
 founders is sincerely appreciated by the
 students. The result of the work has
 been to raise to a real enthusiasm the
 interest In forestry with which the
 work was begun. but the wisdom of
 the masters has guided that enthusi-
 asm into conservative channels. It is
 a comfort to know that the prevailing methods in the smaller holdings of for est are not altogether bad. Professor
 Graves said In one of his lectures:
 Forestry is management of lands with view to continuous production of wood and timber. If that is done, you are practising forestry"
 Professor Tourney says: Farmers are careful in cutting, to perpetuate. Large holders, the reverse" As of the six hundred and twenty-three million acres in farm in 1890, two hundred mill lion acres were woodland, it may be supposed that the two hundred million acres are comparatively safe"
 In making plantations of trees from seed his concise advice is to consider the soil and location and plant CD a tree that will Trow, CD tree that Is worth something after it is grown.
 Again he says: "We can safely say that forestry begins as soon as the owner cuts his forest with an eye to fu- ture crops. Thus he begins to plant his new forest. If man leaves few seed trees, fells trees without injury to young growth and protects from fire, he does a great deal. lr this country the most highly developed sys- tems are not obtainable. We may modify the method of cutting without revolutionizing It."
 In describing the duties and outlook of the forester he says: 'rhe forester I-a +o ,s4l Tp bnt tp handle them is as important as his knowledge of trees and of land--his knowledge of silviculture and forest measurements. The difference be- tween a woodsman and a forester is the difference between the foreman and the in a manufacturing cs- tabishment. The forester must be not only to manage woodland, but to turn 1t into cash at the best ttnie and at the highest price. If forestry is not a business-as agriculture Is, itfls not1- ing. The system is wrong if it is not. In the matter of compensation for ser vice, even trained men can never com- mand very high salaries. but thera is always a living, and the broadness of the work is one of its attra ctions, and it is rugged and healthful. Trained men will always find employment md the opportunities for original work gre great" There are at present four for astry schools in the United States at Yale, at Cornell, at Baltimore and at Washington. The last, however, is only field work. From their teaching and practice and the interest which ev- cry day increases, the country may hope for q great deal in the protection and advancement of her great timber | interests