SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY 



out, and impart such advice as might be neces- 

 sary in connection with the everyday duties of 

 the assistants. About five students could be 

 kept at each of the four schools in England, 

 Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and, as my 

 initial proposal is to plant 1,000,000 acres, 

 this would give 250,000 acres for each of the 

 four countries, which, spread over a period of 

 twenty-five years, works out at 10,000 acres 

 to be dealt with annually at each of the 

 stations. I have purposely spread the plant- 

 ing over a period of twenty-five years in order 

 to reduce the annual expenditure, and so as 

 to ensure that by the time the last portion was 

 dealt with the first formed would be annually 

 producing a fair and increasing quantity of 

 timber. Other portions would be coming on 

 gradually in rotation, so that by the end of 

 the twenty-fifth year almost every phase in 

 connection with the management of woodlands 

 would be in hand. It will be necessary to 

 erect a substantial building at each of the 

 four stations for the accommodation of the 

 head-forester, his staff of assistants, lecture- 



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