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practical instruction in the forest gardens and Demonstration 

 Forest, will give a fairly complete education ; but the graduate 

 will require more experience and study on his own account 

 before he is fit to perform the responsible duties of a forest- 

 officer. 



We therefore propose that a small number of post-graduate 

 scholarships, perhaps six, should be attached to the Demonstra- 

 tion Forest, lasting one to three years, and each worth ^50 to 

 ^150 a year. No one should be eligible for one of these 

 scholarships who has not completed a full course of higher study 

 in forestry and taken a degree at the end of it. The post- 

 graduate students, while at the Demonstration Forest, would be 

 of great assistance to the director in the work of research and 

 teaching. Some part of their time would presumably be spent 

 abroad to complete their education, at any rate until the forest 

 has reached its full development. 



Since these men are intended primarily for the service of the 

 State, and since they will be actually contributing to the work of 

 the Demonstration Forest during their stay there, the cost of 

 some of the scholarships would logically fall to be borne by the 

 State as part of the ordinary expenses of the institution ; and 

 provision has been made accordingly in our estimate of initial 

 annual expenditure (see 8). Any private trust should, however, 

 have the opportunity of assisting students who do not succeed in 

 obtaining State scholarships to reside at the Demonstration 

 Forest and take up research under such conditions as the trust 

 may see fit to lay down. 



The scholarships would not only be of advantage to the 

 students themselves, but they would enable the State to keep 

 under observation some of the more brilliant young men without 

 being obliged to take them into the permanent forest service 

 until their worth was thoroughly proved. 



17. Trai/iiiig of IVorki/ii:; Foresters — School of Apprentices. — 

 We have shown above (see 11) the peculiarly responsible 

 position which this grade of forester occupies in existing 

 woodlands in Scotland belonging to private owners who cannot 

 be expected, except in rare cases, to keep a forest-officer perma- 

 nently in their employment. It remains to be added that the 

 average working forester of to-day fully realises his need of 

 education and has eagerly grasped such opportunities as have 

 been open to him. The lecturers have done their level best to 



