Estates Management. 



In bringing this subject under your readers' notice it is not in the 

 meantime with the intention of taking up and dealing in an exhaus- 

 tive manner with any particuLar branch or department of so wide 

 and comprehensive a subject. It is more the writer's aim simply to 

 call attention to Estates Management as distinguished from the 

 forestal department thereof. 



I have read with much interest and pleasure the pages of the 

 Journal since its commencement, and have marked with pleasure, and 

 indeed some degree of surprise, the amount of practical and literary 

 culture displayed in some of those vigorous and interesting articles 

 from the pens of foresters, land stewards, &c. ; at the same time I am 

 confident I only express the feelings of the majority of your readers 

 when I say that the success of the Journal has hitherto been, and iu 

 future will (to a great extent) continue to be, dependent on those 

 men of science, literary culture, and large experience of subjects 

 connected with, forestry, the management of landed property, &c., 

 whose valuable contributions have already, and may in future, 

 adorn its pages. It is also to be hoped that all who are in any way 

 interested in the above subjects will make every effort to promote 

 the usefulness and extend the circulation of the Journal, which, lilce 

 many other publications of a kindred nature which have risen to 

 eminence, and secured a firm and established footing in the literary 

 world, will require in its infancy a certain amount of fostering care, 

 to enable it to take its place among other representative journals of 

 the day with credit to its enterprising publishers, and that large and 

 influential class wdiom it more or less represents. 



To return to my subject, after this somewhat lengthy digression, 

 allow me to say, that in perusing the pages of the Journal I observe 

 that few of those branches of estate management which more imme- 

 diately fall to the care and superintendence of the agent or land 

 steward have been noticed or discussed. I may be told, on tlK 

 other hand, that little time has yet been lost, that the Journal has not 

 been so long in existerice, and that some of the subjects already brought 

 forward have not been thoroughly ventilated or discussed. Admitting 

 all that to be the case, it seems to me that were some of your able 



