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has a most unfavourable effect on the whole local 

 market, and depresses the prices which can be obtained 

 by the local timber merchants. The latter naturally 

 cannot, under such circumstances, give the best prices 

 for standing timber. Estate saw-mills should charge 

 prices for sawn material very nearly as high as the 

 prices prevailing for foreign timber, even if in doing so 

 their sales are for the moment slightly restricted. 

 9. Either the Landowners' Co-operative Forestry Society or 

 the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society might, at 

 the next Highland and Agricultural Society's Show, 

 arrange for an exhibit of all the standard sizes of 

 timber required by the building and other trades, 

 exhibiting the home and foreign timber side by side, 

 with relative prices. This might have a most valuable 

 educative effect. 

 10. No summary would be complete that did not include a 

 reminder that the future of the home trade depends in 

 the long run on the careful and intelligent management 

 of woodlands. In this all-important respect there is 

 unfortunately no question that we lag far behind our 

 foreign competitors. 



Reported by : — 



J. H. Milne Home {Conr-ener). Wm. Stewart. 



Graham. J. A. Howison Crawfurd. 



John Stirling-Maxwell. J. Macalpine Downie. 



Augustus C. Baillie. Sydney J. Gammell. 



