FORESTRY EDUCATION. 101 
Moravia in Austria, who established the following forest 
schools :— 
(1) Weissmasser, in 1855, by the Bohemian Forestry 
Society, and taken over in 1862 by an Association 
of Landed Proprietors. 
Graf Waldstein, Wartenberg, attached an area of 3000 
acres of forest to the School for the practical instruc- 
tion of the students. 
(2) Eulenburg, in 1852, by the Moravian-Silesian Forestry 
Society. 
(3) Lemberg, a similar institution, existing since 1874. 
All three train forest managers for private woodlands. 
(1) and (2) are entirely self-supporting; (3) has an annual 
grant from the State. 
The above facts indicate that, as far as this country is con- 
cerned, we can expect only limited assistance from the State. 
Considering the large imports of timber, and a certain amount 
of uncertainty regarding future supplies, the State’s action might 
reasonably be expected in the following four directions :— 
(1) Assistance in the equipment of forest schools and 
training grounds, 
(2) Management of, at any rate, a number of Crown forests 
on systematic economic principles. 
(3) Advances at moderate interest (24 per cent.) to landed 
proprietors who are desirous of planting. 
(4) In some cases—for instance, where additional work is 
wanted in congested districts—surplus areas might 
be acquired and put under forest. 
At the same time, we cannot close our eyes to the fact that, as 
the proprietors of forests are the people most interested in the 
systematic management of their woodlands, it rests, in the first 
place, with them to afford the means for a proper education of 
their agents, if they really want it, though, of course, the State 
will do well to help. 
Assuming this to be the case, why should we not be able to 
do as much as has been done, for instance, in Bohemia and 
Moravia? I do not expect any landed proprietor in this country 
to make a present of a large tract of forest land, nor is this 
necessary ; but would it be too much to expect that the proprietors 
