The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-07-26
BECOMING LISTERS
omeial Information for Young Men
Who Would Follow the Career.
~ W09k OF Assistants IN The DE-
DaRtinen4 Calls for Drawn - -
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OO1VeO Oy the bureau OF forestry III
Warrington for information as to the
way to get q training in forestry, and
also for information an to the en-
ployment by the bureau Of young men
ambitious in this direction that the
bureau has issued circular on the
subject. reports the New York Sun.
For those who have had no train
ing in forestry or those whose train
ing is incomplete the burean has only
one kind of work. 1t IL that of stu
dent assistant.
This is practically the place Of help
OF in field work, and it lasts from three
to six months. The wages paid are SIS
q month and expenses. The men pay
their own way to and from the field.
If they are ordered to Warrington at
the close OF the outdoor season to I'm
isA up the routine work, the bureau
pays the expense.
To become student assistant one
must write to the United States for
ester, department of Agriculture, for
blank form of application. Appoint
ments depend upon the answers.
The applicant must make plain that
he has already studied forestry or Is
desirous Of doing so for permanent
calling. So many applications have
come to the bureau from college stu
dents already studying forestry that
men entirely without preliminary
training must be fitted exceptionally
for work in the woods to get appoint
ments.
The work Of these student assistants
Is severe. They live in camps and keep
the hours of lumbermen. Their chief
labor 10 in valuation surveys, that il,
In measuring standing timber or the
contents and rate of growth of felled
trees.
It requires strong young men for
this labor and all the instruction that
such q student receives il what he ab-
serbs In his work. The circular says
OF these student assistants:
They are not attending a>summer
school, but are taking a salaried po-
sition. the duties of which they will
pc rigidly required to perform. The
head of the party is at all times will
ing. in SO far as it does not interfere
with his own duties, to ex&ain mat
tors to tho men under his charge.
HE has, however, no time to de-
liver lectures nor to give formal in
struction of any kind. The student
assistant has in his daily work abun-
dant opportunity to learn; whether
he makes the most of it rests with
him."
The bureaus circular says a trimmed
forester should be skilled in geology.
physical geography, mineralogy, chem
istry. botany, mathematics and The
practical principles of surveying. It
also says that the expert forester
should know something of phvsics.
meteorology and political economy.
There are three schools of forestrv
In the country, one at Cornell, one at
Yale and one at Biltmors, N. C. The
Cornell school requires four years.
study, the Yale school requires two.
The Biltmore school gives instruction
~ one yesE "1tnOut degree. Further
details may be secured from those
schools.
AS to the future employment of for
ssters the bureau says it lis at present
unable to ind q sufficient number Of
suitably prepared foresters to supply
it, needs. Preparation Of working
plans for private, state and federal for
est lands, forest Investigations and
tree planting in many states demand
more mo- men than can be supplied At pros
Holders of timber lands also realize
that conservative numbering pays and
this enlarges the field Of the foresters.
The bureau says the profession offers
q fair living for well-prepared man,
but also says that the salaries will
never be large" It adds that trained