NOTES AND QUERIES. IO3 



wood, it is clea|ly requisite that they should know how to turn 

 that area, as well as the land under other crops, to the best 

 account." The ordinary, or lower, course in Forestry, as given 

 at the University of Edinburgh, which will include practical 

 instruction in the Forest Nursery and the Forest Garden, when 

 these necessary adjuncts have been provided, now forms part of 

 the curriculum of the College of Agriculture. It is this 

 year attended by 13 students, of whom 5 are from the 

 College. That course, taken together with other relative courses 

 at the University or the College of Agriculture, and with six 

 months spent in a State Demonstration Forest, will meet the 

 case of candidates for Land-Agencies who may be unable to 

 enter a University. And it may safely be predicted that the day 

 is not far distant when the proprietors of even moderate-sized 

 estates will require both their Factors and their newly-appointed 

 Head Foresters to possess at least the above qualification. 

 Orthodox views on the subject of forest management are 

 spreading with remarkable rapidity ; and it may be expected 

 that, even without the prospect of an immediate rise in the 

 salary and position of the Head Forester, a considerable number 

 of candidates for that office will before long come forward to 

 follow the curriculum above indicated. But men who have 

 passed creditably through it will certainly be found worthy of 

 improved positions, and their employers will find it to their own 

 advantage to offer them better prospects than they have at 

 present. 



3. Young Working Foresters and Woodmen. — The training of 

 this class to be provided for in one or other of the following 

 ways : — 



{a) Selected students to receive two years' training at a 

 school to be established within a State Demonstration Forest, 

 where they will receive regular wages and perform manual 

 work, supplemented by theoretical study. Outsiders to be 

 admitted on payment of a small fee. 



(b) Men unable to leave their posts to take the above, or 

 whose prospective salaries do not justify their attendance for 

 any length of time at Universities or Colleges, to be offered 

 short courses, suited to their needs, by the Agricultural Colleges. 

 A short course of evening lectures is now given at the East of 

 Scotland College of Agriculture, and is being followed during 

 the current year by 27 students, among whom are numbered 



