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great difference between German and British conditions, in 
Germany “above all, there exists the absorptive market, prepared 
to utilise everything, including even small thinnings in large 
quantities—and shat we have not got. A very good example 
of this—and of how misleading such data may sometimes be— 
is given in paragraph 8 of the recent Report,” the case in 
question being Anthonsthal. 
Now, at Anthonsthal the two great and deciding factors of 
demand and supply have long been working in almost ideal 
harmony; and the highly profitable results are mainly due to 
this favourable combination—although, of course, by careful 
management the growing-stock (and consequently also the 
annual fall) has been increased considerably during the last 
sixty-six years. But the exceptionally favourable balance of 
demand and supply is by far the chief influence in determining 
the good net income at Anthonsthal and similarly situated parts 
of Saxony, with the effect that this net income there obtainable 
per acre zs more than the double of the average for the whole of 
Saxony, although the “good management” and the “accurate 
book-keeping ” have been equally applied to all the forests in the 
country, and not merely to Anthonsthal and others which show 
exceptionally large returns owing to their exceptionally favour- 
able economic conditions locally. This being so, I think that 
Mr Munro Ferguson is very far from correct in stating that my 
“contention reduces itself to this—that the example in question, 
being so favourable, it should have been rejected by the 
Committee”; but I do contend, as stated in the Preface to 
The Forester, that it appeared as if “incorrect conclusions had 
apparently been drawn . . . from evidence that was incomplete 
and therefore misleading,” and I have there thrown further light 
on the point at issue. These remarks can be considered by the 
reader at his leisure. 
As I have been thus attacked, I must now go further and 
assert that if the true facts of the case, as I have shown them 
to be in the Preface, were known to Mr Munro Ferguson and 
all the other members of the Committee—that Dr Schlich knew 
them is pretty certain—then that would have amounted to a 
suppressio vert and a deliberate attempt to mislead: but I feel 
convinced that this was not so, because, if he had had a full 
knowledge of all the facts and circumstances, it would have then 
been a case of the Chairman of the Committee, a pronounced 
