REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FOUESTllY. 1:^7 



tingnish between forestry that is necessary for England, Scotland, 

 Wales, and Ireland ; I mean, would a forester taught in Devonshire 

 be a good forester for Strathspey 1" "I think not ; the two are dis- 

 tinct." — "It was argued that there were certain general principles that 

 were equally applicable to all parts of the United Kingdom, but 

 that the pi'actice must be learned in the individual place 1 " 

 " Almost in the locality." — " Have you any experience of training 

 young men as foresters to go out to India?" "Several of them 

 have been with me for some time before going out, after coming 

 home from France." — "They went abroad first?" "They went 

 abroad to France first and came to me afterwards." 



" Have you ever made a calculation of the cost of planting, from 

 the beginning to the end, of any special plantation ? " " The one 

 that I have just quoted is from the time the ground was inclosed, 

 which included inclosing, planting, plants, and draining. It cost 

 somewhere about 30s. per acre." — " Have you followed that up by 

 also keeping au account of the cost of cutting and the thinning and 

 any other processes, and on the other side, the money that you 

 received for the sales of the particular plantation ? " " None of the 

 plantations that I have made have, I may say, yielded any return 

 yet." — " Then you are unable to give the Committee any information 

 as to any profit which may arise or has arisen on any of your 

 woods ? " " From calculations that I made on other plantations I 

 think they should yield about 10s. a year; from 7s. 6d. to 10s. a 

 year per acre."—" You think it would be worth planting any land 

 which did not bring in a rental of 10s. a year?" " Yes, if you 

 have a sufficient extent of it, but if it is only a little bit, the cost 

 of inclosing a little bit is very much extra. It comes to be very 

 expensive if you fence a small bit." — "Do you think there would 

 be a sufficient number of foresters who would take advantage of any 

 school that were established so as to make it worth while setting 

 up a school ? " "I think a good number would take advantage of 

 it." 



" Do you think the system of apprenticing boys and young men 

 is a good one for teaching them practical forestry ? " "I think 

 so." — " Is that a system which is largely adopted in Scotland ? " 

 " I always have several young men with myself ; I cannot speak 

 as to others." — " I presume they go out to be head foresters to 

 smaller places?" "To smaller places, and sometimes to pretty 

 large places." — " Do you know what the present acreage of forests 

 in Scotland is?" "I think there is somewhere about 730,000 



