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tain a good forest establishment, with machinery, bothies, books, 

 collections, or experimental areas. 



Throughout the forester's training, whether it be scientific or 

 empirical, it should always be kept in view that when he becomes 

 a head man he must be fit to give instruction in every detail of 

 his work — for he will have to teach his men how to keep their 

 saws, their working tools, and machinery; he will have to train 

 his nurserymen, pruners, drainers, hedgers, and fencers ; whilst, 

 for the general management of his woodlands, he must be able to 

 draft a rough scheme for their systematic working, if he is to 

 use his own powers effectively, and to make the best of his 

 plantations. 



It is all the more necessary to discuss the forester's training, 

 because we have no regular scientific teaching open to him. 

 Some day, perhaps, a little book of homely precepts may be 

 written and amplified from these suggestions, and, meanwhile, 

 the subject might be further ventilated in future numbers of our 

 Transactions. 



