NATIONAL AFFORESTATION 



rooms, and storage-places for tools and other 

 commodities. The assistants should remain 

 at the school of forestry for a period of not 

 less than three years, after which they may 

 be allowed to fill vacancies as head-foresters 

 when such crop up. By this means not only 

 will the assistants receive a good insight into 

 forest work generally, at a fair remuneration, 

 but the State would greatly benefit by the 

 employing of such men in the laying out, 

 planting, and management of the woodlands. 

 During that period of the year when thinning 

 cannot be engaged in there will be plenty of 

 work in the way of fence repairs, drainage, 

 removal of rough-growing grasses from newly 

 planted sections, and other needful operations; 

 while, when the conversion of the timber 

 comes about, greatly increased facilities in 

 the matter of sawmills and other buildings will 

 be required, and work will be general the 

 whole year through. 



The practical part of the education might 

 include draining, fencing, planting, pruning, 

 thinning, timber conversion, seasoning, and 



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