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working-plan for a forest they could adopt in this country was to 

 classify the woods according to special ages, and then they 

 could take stock. As we had private ownership, we could have 

 no continuity, because one man would go in for woods, and the 

 next man would cut them down for game, and so on. 



Mr Pitcaithley said Mr Gillanders referred to the want of 

 enthusiasm in young men for education, but he must distinctly 

 say that was not his experience. The reason for education not 

 being taken up by the young forester was generally due to lack 

 of interest in the head forester. There were very few foresters 

 throughout the country who took any interest in the young men 

 under their charge. They looked on them as mere machines. 

 He agreed with Dr Nisbet in desiring to have the university 

 education in summer. It would suit practical foresters much 

 better, and more would take advantage of the lectures if they 

 were given in the summer season. 



Mr Gillanders said his remarks about young foresters applied 

 to the other side of the Border. There was not enthusiasm 

 amongst young foresters on the other side of the Border. 



Mr Leven, Auchencruive, said what he felt there was a great 

 need of was a proper director to tell them what to study. They 

 might lose a good few years in groping about, as it were, in the 

 dark, trying to learn something that would be of use to them in 

 future life, with practically no one able to guide them. They 

 had heard a great deal about this demonstration area. Among 

 the earliest things he recollected, when he came into that locality, 

 was some murmurings of the time when they were all to have a 

 demonstration area ; they were, however, apparently as far from it 

 as ever. Was there nothing they could do themselves while they 

 were waiting for that promised forest ? In a centre like Perth, 

 could they not establish one of those lectureships which 

 Dr Nisbet had advocated? He thought they had something 

 that would be the nucleus of a lectureship in that very institution 

 where they were that day. He was surprised when he went 

 upstairs to find they had some of the best examples of forest trees 

 laid out there. In the near future they had the prospect of a 

 new Education Act, which was to establish a Board which would 

 undertake the teaching of forestry. In such a county as Perth- 

 shire, which, he maintained, was the home of forestry, there should 

 be something done to encourage young foresters. 



Dr Borthwick, Edinburgh, said he had heard the subject of 



