NATIONAL AFFORESTATION 



thorough practical knowledge of woodland 

 work generally at no appreciable cost, while 

 the State will receive at the same time valuable 

 aid from the students at a small outlay per 

 annum. 



Kegarding the most desirable places to 

 establish these schools of forestry and com- 

 mence planting operations, I would suggest 

 those counties where not only the greatest 

 area of waste lands exist, but where other 

 advantages are oSered, especially in the 

 matter of cheap land purchase and easy 

 removal of the produce. 



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