3508 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY, 
ever, principally a matter of expense ; if you can have two schools 
so much the better.”-—“* We have been told in this room that it 
would be desirable, in addition to there being a forestry school in 
England, that there should be a similar establishment, or possibly 
two similar establishments, in Scotland. Do you consider a 
similar establishment, if it could be arranged, would be as desirable 
in Scotland as it would be at Cooper’s Hill?” ‘To begin with, 
I do not think there would be a sufficient number of men to fill 
two schools.” —“ But the amount of the woodlands in Scotland 
being so large, are we not likely to require the advantages of 
education in forestry quite as much as those who are further 
south?” “No doubt; it is simply a matter of expense; of 
course it would be desirable for the Scottish foresters to have the 
school nearer home.”—‘ We have heard that if it is desirable 
that there should be one school of forestry in Great Britain, it is 
highly desirable that it should be upon the other side of the 
Tweed and not upon this?” ‘There may be a practical reason 
for its being at Cooper’s Hill. Seeing that we have already got 
an establishment at Cooper’s Hill, and that the Government of 
India will probably always select the best men they can find to 
conduct that business, you have already offered you there condi- 
tions which you might not be able to find elsewhere, therefore it 
would be probably easier at starting to make a beginning here 
than in Scotland. But I will go so far as to say this, that if 
Cooper’s Hill was at Perth, and the Government of India had 
made arrangements for training their officers at Perth, it would 
be certainly better there than that it should be at Cooper's Hill. 
The forests round there could be much more easily brought into 
condition for teaching than round about Windsor.”—‘ If the 
thing were first starting, you think that Perth or somewhere in 
the neighbourhood of the large Scottish forests, would be better 
than the establishment of a forest school in the south of England?” 
“ Tf I started with everything blank before me I would have the 
school in Scotland.”—‘‘ With regard to the low price of home- 
grown timber, you mentioned the intermittent character of the 
supplies from our woods, and Sir Herbert Maxwell asked you a 
question with regard to the destruction of the Duke of Buccleuch’s 
woods in 1883. Could you suggest any way in which we could 
avoid these intermittent sales of timber, which, as you say, 
diminish our profits ; or could you tell the Committee of any way 
than by casual operations we can increase our sales?” “J 
