CHAPTEE IX 



AFFORESTATION AND SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY 



WITH the felling of fully a million acres of our 

 woods for war purposes and the pressing 

 necessity for afforestation, the question of 

 establishing schools of forestry naturally 

 conies to the front. Regarding the necessity 

 for such schools opinions are much divided, 

 and amongst the practical members of the 

 woodcraft there is a decided aversion to these 

 being established on anything approaching 

 the lines of such as at present exist. 



Probably there is no trade in the Kingdom 

 to which so little science has been introduced, 

 and there is certainly none other in which 

 science would be more useful. There are 

 many important points to decide in connec- 

 tion with timber, especially with reference to 

 lasting properties and suitability for special 

 purposes, not to speak of the best methods of 



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