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{b) Experiments in the treatment of growing crops are 

 urgently needed, and these should be carefully planned, carried 

 out and fully recorded ; but neither time, space nor money 

 should be wasted in unconsidered experiments. 



(c) The Demonstration Forest, besides providing in itself a 

 field for fresh study and research, should be a centre where 

 data from other parts of Scotland can be collected and 

 compared, and from which such information and statistics 

 may be published as will assist the application of scientific 

 silviculture to Scots' conditions. For the purpose of collecting 

 information, local correspondents should be ajipointed in every 

 county. 



{d) The forest, with its maps, working-plans, records and 

 accounts, should be made accessible to students and teachers 

 from the teaching centres and to other students (see 15, 16, 18, 

 19). In the accounts, the cost of education and research 

 should be kept strictly separate from the expenses properly 

 chargeable against the forest crop. 



{e) There should be attached to the forest a school of working 

 apprentices (see 17). 



3. Control. — If a Board of Agriculture for Scotland is created 

 in accordance with the provisions of the Bill now before 

 Parliament, and includes the promised Department of Forestry,^ 

 that Department should be responsible for the control of the 

 Demonstration Forest. The recommendation is made on the 

 assumption that the Department in question will be truly 

 representative of silvicultural interests and silvicultural effort 

 in Scotland. Failing that, the forest should be under the control 

 of a small board of supervision, hereafter referred to as the 

 Demonstration Forest Board ; unpaid, with a paid secretary ; 

 appointed fjy the Secretary for .Scotland, who should also 

 nominate the chairman. 



4. Staff. — We recommend the following staff: — 



Director, a forest-officer thoroughly acquainted with Scotland, 

 who should be solely responsible, subject to a working-plan 

 approved by the Department of Forestry or Demonstration 

 Forest Board. He should have under his supervision the school 

 of ajjprentices (see below and 17) and all forms of instruction 



^ [See the Secretary for Scotland's letter to the Royal Scottisli Arboricullural 

 Society, dated 8th November 191 1, cf. the present volume, p. i. — Hon. Ei>.] 



