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Grant from the Development Fund in respect of 

 Provision of Technical Advice in Forestry. 



The Board cf Agriculture and Fisheries have been informed 

 that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, on the 

 recommendation of the Development Commissioners, have 

 sanctioned the payment from the Development Fund of a sum 

 of ;^25oo per annum for three years, to be distributed by the 

 Board as grants to certain institutions in England and Wales, to 

 enable them to supply technical advice to landowners and others 

 interested in forestry. 



Owing to inadequate resources, institutions possessing forestry 

 departments have hitherto restricted their attention for the most 

 part to imparting instruction to students. It is now proposed to 

 attach an experienced forest expert to the forestry departments 

 of two universities and three colleges, whose chief duty will be 

 to supply to landowners and others advice as to the general 

 and detailed working of their woods. Each institution will, 

 therefore, become for a given district a centre for information, to 

 which application may be made on all questions relating to the 

 formation, treatment, utilisation and protection of woods. 



It is essential that the staff to be employed in advisory work 

 should command the confidence of landowners. The men selected 

 should, therefore, be well acquainted with the practice and theory 

 of forestry both at home and abroad. They should be prepared to 

 study in detail the local conditions in their districts, and they must 

 endeavour to impress the advantages of systematic management 

 on those owners of woodlands with whom they come in contact. 



In order to provide the data which are necessary for the 

 foundation of efficient forest management the Board propose, 

 with the co-operation of landowners, to establish a number of 

 experimental plots dealing with the thinning, underplanting and 

 regeneration of woods. It will be one of the duties of the forest 

 experts to be appointed by means of the grant to aid the Board's 

 officers in the selection, treatment and supervision of these plots, 

 and in the collection of such statistics as may, from time to time, 

 be required. 



Coftditions of Grant. 



I. A grant of ^500 per annuin for three years from ist 

 October 191 2 will be made to each of five institutions to 

 provide the salary and travelling expenses of an advisory expert. 



