DEPUTATION TO THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND. 6 1 



to full life, or will, at all events, be a payment to account of all 

 that is due." 



Dr Campbell, Chairman of the Governors of the North of 

 Scotland College of Agriculture, said : — " As representing the 

 Aberdeen branch of the Society, I have been asked to make a 

 short statement as to what the North of Scotland College of 

 Agriculture has done in the matter of forestry on the estate of 

 Craibstone. We purchased that estate in 19 14 for about 

 _;^i 9,000. One-half of that sum was contributed by the Develop- 

 ment Commissioners through the Board of Agriculture, one quarter 

 by the Scotch Education Department, and the other quarter was 

 provided by the College from local sources. The estate extends 

 in all to about 763 acres, and of these about 260 acres are wood- 

 lands. The estimated value of timber on the estate at time of 

 purchase was ^1800. Keeping in view our educational proposals 

 in forestry, we, with the approval of the Board of Agriculture, 

 sold a portion of the matured timber to the Home-Grown Timber 

 Committee at a price considerably in excess of what we paid for 

 the whole timber on the estate ; and I may mention that the 

 value of the unsold timber still remaining on the estate exceeds 

 the price paid for the whole woods in 1914. One of the objects 

 we had in view in purchasing the estate was practical training in 

 forestry, and the development of forestry generally. We were of 

 opinion that the district was specially adapted for a centre of a 

 school of forestry. Not only is the larger area of ground already 

 planted, and under wood, within the area covered by the North 

 of Scotland College of Agriculture, but by far the largest area of 

 plantable ground is also in the north. We have a Degree in 

 Forestry in the University of Aberdeen, and we have two lecturers 

 in forestry — one appointed by the College and the other by the 

 University. I may be allowed to mention that our North of 

 Scotland College is closely associated in its work with the 

 University of Aberdeen, and I think this arrangement is beneficial 

 to both institutions. 



" In respect of all these facts, we considered from time to time 

 comprehensive schemes drawn up by our lecturers in forestry 

 for the development of our Forestry Department at Craibstone. 

 In August 1916 these schemes were modified, and a new scheme 

 was prepared and adapted to meet proposals put forward for the 

 employment and training of discharged soldiers and sailors. 

 I have a copy of this scheme now in my hands, but I will not 



