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way I think you might try to suit it to all; but I think it must be 
made cheap enough, and the means made accessible to the lower 
class of wood manager, as well as to the higher, if you want a 
practical result.” —‘‘ But we were talking of the possibility of such 
a school paying, and the class of students that would go there; you 
were only asked with regard to agents who would want such a study 
as a part of their agency business, and also with regard to the lower 
class of foresters who would not be able to afford to pay the higher 
fees; but do not you think there would be a class of men who 
would take up forestry as a profession altogether, as advisers to go 
about and examine woods? There would be many a man who has 
a good deal of wood, but who still does not keep a forester of his 
own, to whom such professional assistance would be valuable?” 
“T would make the education complete: but for that purpose you 
mention I think the men ought to go through the complete course ; 
they ought to go to the Continent. I would not give them a first- 
class certificate without.” 
“In answer to an honourable Member, you said that the school 
might be applied to two or three classes of pupils, some of them 
gentlemen’s sons and farmers’ sons, with a view to their combining 
a knowledge of forestry with land agency, and then there would be 
labourers who would do the felling and the planting and the labour- 
ing work of the school?” ‘I would hardly include the labourers ; 
I do not think those would want instruction—they generally do 
their work very well in most places. The three classes would be, 
first, wood managers or bailiffs, who would get from £60 to £70 a 
year ; then there would be the land agent who directs them, and 
who it is most desirable should have a little knowledge, as he would 
be able to direct and advise what planting should be done, and 
what timber should be felled, and all that branch of work, which is 
often very much mismanaged. Then, finally, I would carry on the 
instruction so that you could have a higher class of men who could 
either act as agents in the Colonies or as advisers at home.”—“ We 
have had evidence to show that woodlands are very much mis- 
managed generally, and that they are intrusted to the class of wood- 
men?” ‘Yes, I have heard of that.”—‘“ Could not you make the 
schools available for the instruction of our woodmen, because there 
is no doubt that the management upon large estates must depend 
upon the managers, the wood-men, more or less?” “I would make 
the elementary instruction such that anybody who had a decent 
education could benefit by it ; but, of course, such a man cannot be 
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