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advice of the Lecturer and a duly constituted committee of control, 
would have to draw up a working plan of the area, giving full 
details of the objects aimed at, and the manner in which they will 
be utilised. This area could at once be utilised for the practical 
illustration of the theories set forth in the lecture-room, and it 
would also atford opportunity for the training of working foresters.” 
The model forests would presumably be under the Board of 
Agriculture ; and it would be necessary to place the lecturer, or 
head of the forest school, at Edinburgh, in such relationship with 
the manager as would ensure the forests being made to answer his 
instructional requirements in the fullest manner. 
BoarD OF VISITORS. 
A board of visitors should be appointed, who would report direct 
to the Board of Agriculture any suggestions that they might, from 
time to time, desire to make regarding matters affecting the 
management and use of the model forests. 
PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT. 
Subject to the limitations above indicated, the manager would 
have control of the model forests. He would reside in or near 
them, and would be assisted by a suitable staff of assistants 
and workmen. Houses for the accommodation of the manager, 
foresters, and woodmen, if not found in the area acquired, 
might, no doubt, be purchased or hired in convenient situations. 
The manager’s residence should include his office, and the 
forester’s house should contain a room set apart for the use of the 
manager and other officials during their visits. All that would 
be needed—at least in the first instance—in the way of accom- 
modation for the students would be a large room in the forest 
nearest to Edinburgh, in which they could take shelter, and be 
addressed by their instructor should bad weather come on during 
their visits. 
Witt tHE Mopet Forests BE a FINANCIAL SuccEss? 
Dr Schlich has calculated that land capable of producing, on 
an average, 14 tons of coniferous timber annually, can be profitably 
afforested with Scots pine if it does not yield an annual soil 
rental of more than 7s. 6d, per acre. Of course this estimate is 
based on the assumption that the forest grown on it will be 
