138 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 
that it is undesirable to send the Indian pupils abroad, because 
that renders it more difficult to establish a forest school in this 
country: I think you have indicated elsewhere that those, to your 
mind, were objections to sending pupils to Nancy?” “I think 
those are the principal reasons. I think, at the same time, that the 
school is an admirable one, and has done great service.”—“ Of 
course, it would be practically impossible to send those who are to 
take the management of English woods, and particularly those of 
the lower grade, to a foreign school?” ‘‘ It is much too expensive. 
The remuneration which an English forester gets is so low that he 
could not possibly afford that education in France. It is rather an 
expensive school and rather an exclusive school, and that is one 
reason why it has been so much attacked in France; it was not 
intended for the class of men who chiefly want that education in 
Great Britain.” 
“With regard to the proposed arrangement at Cooper’s Hill, do 
you consider that would meet the requirements of English landed 
proprietors in the way of supplying them with trained forest 
officials?” ‘No, I do not think it would be suited to the require- 
ments of the country ; it would answer very well for the Indian 
Government, but the education at Cooper’s Hill is much too expen- 
sive even for the requirements of a land agent’s education.” —“ You 
think the arrangement may be very well suited for the requirements 
of the Indian Forest Service, but would not assist much in the 
preparation of English forest officials?” ‘‘Quite so. I do not 
think it would affect the question of English foresters at all.”— 
“You would consider that a certain amount of technical training 
would be very valuable, not only for the head officials, but also for 
the persons of a lower grade, such as woodreeves, and bailiffs, and 
managers of small woodlands?” “I think that, if possible, any 
education that was given in England ought to be made sufiiciently 
economical to enable the class of wood managers and wood bailiffs 
to, at all events, participate in a portion of the lectures, which they 
might do. It would not be necessary for them to follow the higher 
course of study which one would wish a land agent to follow, but I 
should try to make the education such that there might be a portion 
of the course that would be suitable to every one without any undue 
expense ; that, I think, we ought very carefully to keep in view.”— 
“Supposing the case of a man who has the management of 500 or 
1000 acres of land : it would hardly pay to give him a large salary, 
but still he would benefit by eighteen months’ or two years’ training 
