A (lOOD SUGGESTION. 



Sir, — I have perused with much interest the two niimbei's of your 

 excellent journal which have appeared, and it has occurred to me, if you 

 will allow me to make a suggestion, that your laudable endeavours to raise 

 the status of forestry, and to promote the welfare of the numerous and 

 deserving body of foresters, would be immensely assisted were the land- 

 owners of the country to take some interest in your journal and to furnish 

 one or more copies for the use of the young foresters on their estates in 

 their bothies or cottages. The price of the journal, considering the amount 

 of letterpress and valuable matter it contains, is not by any means extrava- 

 gant — indeed, it appears to me very moderately charged, — but still 12s. 

 a year is a consideration to a young forester, and may deter many a one 

 from having access to the pleasure and profit Avhich the perusal of the 

 journal would give him. In the interests, therefore, of the assistant foresters 

 I make this suggestion, and trust that the landlords of the country will 

 in this way aid you in furthering the welfare of tlieir workmen, while they 

 will at the same time be conferring an advantage on themselves by 

 affording their labourers the means of elevating themselves and their work 

 from mere routine duties to an intelligent and popularly scientific treat- 

 ment of the work committed to their charge. 



Ho]3ing that many of my fellow-landowners will avail themselves of this 

 suggestion, upon which I have myself acted with advantage, I am sir, 



A Scotch Laird. 



THE MODES OF MEASURING TIMBER. 



Sir, — In reference to Mr. Barry's article in the last number of the 

 Journal of Forestry, on measuring round timber by the quarter girth 

 method not being mathematically accurate, I cannot help thinking the 

 objections to the method are not (piite valid ; mathematical accuracy is not 

 aimed at, but simply a commercial approximate value is sought for, by the 

 readiest methods which shall be fair to buyer and seller, allowing for 

 contingencies of defects, waste, &c. The system of tare and tret is carried 

 out in all wholesale trade measurements and reckoaiugs, whe ther in bark 



