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same time give the wood bailiffs and managers a better education, so 
as to enable them to carry on their operations in a more intelligent 
manner than they do. But I do not think you could have a class 
of foresters in the same way as they do in Germany, where there 
are very large tracts to be managed, and where men make a pro- 
fession of it entirely ; I do not think you would get a very highly 
trained man to make a profession of forestry in England.” 
“Suppose you took the class of young men who would spend 
two or three or four years in a university, and who had acquired 
the principal portion of their scientific education, and you opened 
a forestry school, and put any examination that is thought desir- 
able to mark the stage of education they had arrived at on entrance. 
Supposing them to be in a position to pass that examination in 
mathematics, and so on, what time do you think it would then 
take to put them through a course of forest education, specially ; 
would you say one year or two years?” ‘If they had had a 
thoroughly good education before, one year would be enough ; if 
they were carrying on their other scientific education, which I 
think would be the best way, concurrently, then two years. In 
France a young man attending the Forest School at Nancy has to 
take his degree before he can compete ; either he must be bacheler 
és sctences, or else he must have passed through the Polytechnic 
School ; that at once involves a considerable amount of scientific 
education. Then he has two years in the forestry school. Buta 
man in the school at Nancy continues his applied mathematics ; he 
continues his instruction in surveying, road making, machinery, 
certain elements of chemistry, minerals, and geology. If he is 
carrying on that concurrently, it would take two years, and I think 
that is the best way of teaching, because you could hardly spend 
the whole of your time in teaching a man forestry, else the whole 
of the forestry education could be done in one year. The more 
extended period also gives a better opportunity of taking the pupils 
into the forests at different times of the year; that is to say, 
by spreading it over two years ; so that I think it should go on 
concurrently with his other education.”—“ You would say, taking 
a somewhat superior classman from the university or a public 
school, and submitting him to such examinations as might be 
thought necessary to test the amount of education he had already 
got, that in two years subsequently to that you could fit him with 
a sufficient knowledge of forestry to make him a useful servant of 
the State for carrying out any forestry operations that would be 
