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forestry as their future occupation. During the next few years 

 excellent facilities will be afforded these men on the estate for 

 acquiring a practical knowledge of forestry. Part of their period 

 of training will be spent in the felling and conversion of the 

 timber purchased by the Home-Grown Timber Committee, and 

 in the extensive nurseries now being formed, while at other 

 times they will be employed in planting or in the preliminary 

 operations of fencing, roadmaking or draining. Experienced 

 foremen will be in charge of the different operations, and the 

 men working under their direction will be grouped in small 

 squads so that as much attention as possible may be devoted to 

 the training of each individual. Alongside with this practical 

 training the men will also have facilities, by means of lectures and 

 demonstrations, for acquiring a knowledge of the principles under- 

 lying the practice of forestry, sufficiently extensive to make them 

 useful woodmen. In order that they may derive the full benefit 

 of this teaching, every effort will be made by the governors and 

 staff of the College to ensure that the courses of instruction, 

 while being made as comprehensive as possible, will be easily 

 followed and of a kind specially adapted to their ability and 

 requirements. 



14. Particulars of the Farm of Borgie. Presented to 

 the State by the Duke of Sutherland.^ 



Description of the Farm. — The farm of Borgie is situated 

 partly in the parish of Tongue and partly in the parish of Farr 

 in the northern part of Sutherland. The area of the farm is 

 approximately 12,200 acres. It is a grazing farm and carries 

 from 2000 to 2200 cheviot sheep of good quality, also some 

 cattle and horses. It has been farmed for many years by the 

 Duke of Sutherland, who employs three shepherds and two 

 ploughmen, and these, with the gamekeeper and a small tenant, 

 are the only householders on the place. The hill-grazing is 

 fairly typical of Sutherland generally. The land under cultiva- 

 tion yields a good crop of oats, potatoes and turnips, and areas 

 of land at different points are capable of reclamation. In the 



' Excerpted from a Memorandum presented to both Houses of Parliament, 

 lotli November 1916. 



