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blishment might be utilised for the instruction of men who did 

 not intend to carry the matter so far?" "That is my view." — 

 " Among some of those who have come here to give evidence, par- 

 ticularly those representing land agents, and the landed profession 

 generally, there is an opinion that it would not be so absolutely 

 necessary for woodreeves and bailiffs to go to a school of forestry if 

 there was a school where the land agents could be instructed, be- 

 cause the land agents would then be able to communicate the infor- 

 mation they had received to the woodreeves and bailiffs under 

 them ; would you agree with that opinion 1" "I should doubt 

 whether they could communicate it sufficiently scientifically. It 

 wonld be a great advantage, no doubt, that they should have the 

 knowledge, but still I think it is the training in scientific methods 

 that the men get in a college or a school that would be specially 

 important to them." — " Landowners in these days would hardly be 

 likely to pay the exj)ense of a man going away from the land for 

 three months, or six months, or twelve months, as the case might 

 be?" "No, it is a money question throughout, no doubt." — 

 " Whereas a land agent would willingly go for instruction to a 

 school which would probably enable him to get a higher position ? " 

 " Yes, and also for the certificate which he might thus obtain." — 

 " Probably a man who has had a three months' course would have 

 a better chance of getting a place than one who has not had that 

 advantage?" " Yes, it would give an opportunity to a man who 

 had not intended to go into the higher branches of proceeding 

 onward to these. He might show ability at the lectures which he 

 would be obliged to attend, and that might lead to his being en- 

 couraged and helped to go on to the higher branches." — " You 

 consider that although a land agent himself might give a certain 

 amount of instruction to the woodreeves under him in scientific 

 subjects, which would be better than nothing, that would not be 

 nearly so good as the instruction which the men would get from 

 three or six months' residence at a college ? " " It would not com- 

 pare with it." 



Upon the general question also, Dr John Croumbie Brown, 

 LL.D., Haddington, gave farther evidence, as follows : — - 



" You have had considerable experience in schools of forestry on 

 the Continent ? " " Yes ; I have visited most of the schools of 

 forestry, and have had correspondence with* the managers of all 

 those which I have not visited personally." — "Which of the foreign 



