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VII. FORESTRY OF SWEDEN’.
The Institute of Forestry, in Stockholm.
lower course as many pupils are admitted as there is room for. The right to
enter the lower course belongs to any youth who shall have obtained his remove
to the Lower Sixth class of a State College (i. e. four years previous to
nni-versity entrance), and shall have since then been employed, for at least two years,
in practical work of a nature to come under the heading of Forest Economy.
The teaching staff at the Institute of Forestry consists of a Director, two
Lectors with permanent appointments, and four other teachers. One or two
Assistants are also engaged to take part in the practical instruction.
The number of Forestry Schools belonging to the State is eight.
Two of them are exclusively occupied with imparting preliminary
instruction to the candidates for subsequent entrance to the Institute of
Forestry. The chief stress is here laid upon the acquirement of
practical experience. The remaining six forestry schools are concerned with
the training of competent rangers.
Instruction is given in Forest Economy, Botany, Zoology, Mathematics,
Mapping, Writing, Arithmetic, the Arts of Hunting and Shooting, and Laws
that concern the duties of a ranger. Practical subjects treated include: the
Surveying of Woods and Fields, Sylviculture, Thinning and other forms of working
up Woods, etc. The course lasts one year. At each school 10 pupils annually
receive not only their lodging free, but also scholarships which approximately cover
the cost of their board. The majority of the pupils who go through these schools
enter the service of private owners of forests, and in many cases they have by
degrees attained, thanks to their business talent and general capacity, to positions ol
trust and eminence among the representatives of the saw-mill industry in Sweden,
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