330 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



rabbits caught in this manner have cost me 

 a shiHing a head. In spite of ferreting and 

 shooting, I once lost seventy apple-trees 

 one winter's night of severe frost. They 

 were completely ringed round by rabbits and 

 hares. There is no compensation to meet 

 cases like this. 



A case could be made out for the in- 

 telligent management of woods concurrently 

 with preserving game, but, unfortunately, 

 wherever this is attempted it is the gamekeeper 

 who is invariably given the precedence over 

 the forester. 



At the time of writing this book the only 

 grants made in England for the encourage- 

 ment of forestry is the small sum of £250 a 

 year to the University College of North Wales, 

 and the same sum to the Armstrong College, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. There is the Forestry 

 Department in the University of Oxford for 

 the training of our Indian civil servants. The 

 most distinguished, however, of our Indian 

 foresters have been those who have learnt 

 their trade in the well -managed woods of 

 Saxony. To the making of good foresters, as 

 well as good farmers, it requires something 

 more than the lecture and the laboratory, and 



