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it would require a larger expenditure to get possession of a tract 
of forest in which forestry might be taught.”—“ Assuming that 
were arranged within a distance of 150 miles, that distance is not, 
in your judgment, too far for the purpose of imparting instruction?” 
“No. In France we went to the forests everywhere. We put up 
in the village inns; it was no great expenditure, and I do not 
know why you should not do it elsewhere. Except in the forest of 
Nancy, where the pupils were taken in every day for ordinary 
operations, the other teaching was given round about; sometimes 
we went to St Gobain, Villars Coteret, and into the Jura. We 
travelled third-class, and stopped at the village inns, and there was 
very little expenditure over our excursions. But it is necessary 
also to have a tract of contiguous forest for daily teaching.” 
“ With reference to the reproduction of larches in Scotland, you 
stated in your evidence last year that the best reproduction you had 
ever seen was in the neighbourhood of Milton Castle ; can you tell 
us where that is?” ‘If you are looking from the Spey up to 
Milton Castle, it would be in the woods to your right front.”— 
“Ts Milton Castle the correct name?” ‘‘ No, they are the 
Milton Woods; it was not very far from Grantown, near Lord 
Seafield’s residence.” —‘‘ That was a north slope?” “ Yes.” 
“ Have you given your attention since last year to what you 
would consider the best school for sylviculture in England ; last 
year you had not made up your mind?” “T think the best plan 
would be to get a forest as near as possible to Cooper’s Hill, where 
there is now an educated forest officer, and put the forest under 
his charge with an executive officer under him.”—“Is there a 
sufficient amount of woodland close to Cooper’s Hill?” ‘ Yes, 
there are about 15,000 acres outside Windsor Park, from which I 
think a selection might be made.”—‘‘ Would you afford facilities 
for the visits of pupils to our larger forests for special instruction ?” 
“T think they would get there what was required for daily instruc- 
tion, in fact, for the exemplification of the lectures.”—‘ And 
what would you estimate to be the amount of forest or woodland 
which it would be desirable to attach to a forest school?” ‘TI 
think 3000 or 4000 acres would be sufficient, half in leaf forest 
and half in conifers. At Nancy they have 1600 hectares attached 
to the school; that would be nearly 4000 acres. There are two 
divisions of the forest, about 800 hectares in each. A hectare is 
two and a half acres. That is what they have considered necessary 
for the exemplitication of the lectures,”—“ But in the immediate 
contiguity of the college, from 3000 to 4000 acres would be 
