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by the West of Scotland Agricultural College, and owing to the 

 kindness of certain proprietors, and the efforts of the Lorn 

 District Committee of the County Council of Argyll, a most 

 promising start has already been made. 



The Lorn District Committee has promised to pay the class 

 fees of six Forestry students, who are in the first instance to be 

 apprenticed for eighteen months on certain estates, and are 

 subsequently to attend a winter session at the Agricultural 

 College in Glasgow. 



The scheme includes the further advantage, that the methods 

 of Forestry practised upon the properties where the students are 

 engaged are made available to the College for the purposes of 

 experiment and research. 



Lord Strathcona, Mr Macalpine Downie, Mr Nelson and 

 Mr Macdonald have all consented to a working arrangement of 

 this kind with the College. 



The conditions under which the students are appointed may 

 be summarised as follows : — 



The course is for working men and youths only. It will 

 extend over a period of two years, during which time the 

 students will be required to spend six months in Glasgow, taking 

 classes of forestry, botany, chemistry, soils and manures, 

 zoology, book-keeping, and surveying at the West of Scotland 

 Agricultural College. The Forestry Experimental Station of 

 the College at Kilmarnock will also be visited. Students will 

 further be required to spend eighteen months on an estate where 

 they will (i) perform the duties of a working forester; (2) keep 

 a journal recording full details and costs of the work done each 

 day (these journals will be taken into account in all examina- 

 tions) ; and (3) attend such lectures and examinations as the 

 College may decide to hold. The intention is to give weekly 

 lectures at the local centres for a certain period of the year. 

 For the present, the number of students to be admitted in any 

 one year is limited to ten. Wages will be paid to the students 

 during their work on the estates, their College fees will also be 

 paid during their work in Glasgow, and assistance given towards 

 their other expenses in Glasgow. It is also hoped that special 

 bursaries may be established. Periodical examinations will be 

 held in Oban and other centres, and at the end of the course 

 certificates will be given to those who succeed in satisfying 

 the examiners. Applications for admission should be sent to 



