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must be a keen, active, business-like man, thoroughly competent 

 to give instructions as to how the timber is to be sawn in order to 

 obtain the greatest quantity of marketable goods, and to cause 

 the least waste. He must disabuse his mind of the idea that the 

 estate exists simply for the purpose of giving employment to a 

 certain number of men ; and also of the idea that workmen are 

 not supposed to exert themselves so fully in the service of a pro- 

 prietor as in that of a merchant or a mill-owner. The work of 

 superintending the manufacture of from 50,000 to 100,000 cubic 

 feet of wood in an economical and profitable way will geneially be 

 found to be quite enough for one man's capacity, apart altogether 

 from the supervision and management of planting and growing 

 timber. Where such a quantity of timber is annually manu- 

 factured by owners, they will find that the work is far more 

 profitably conducted by a man set apart exclusively for these 

 operations. 



The benefit of managing timber-works economically and profit- 

 ably, will be a mutual one for both employer and employees. 

 The workpeople will have a healthy, agreeable industry, -w hich 

 will do a great deal more than many of the present-day schemes 

 to keep them in the country and on the land ; and the owner will 

 have the satisfaction of being able to derive from the soil, in 

 remote places, a rent which it has become extremely difficult to 

 obtain from grazing and agriculture. 



