SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY 



preserving, as well as measuring and valuing, 

 levelling, surveying, road-making, and the 

 formation and management of tree nurseries. 

 The home classes would include entomology 

 as far, at least, as the life-history of insects 

 injurious to trees is concerned diseases of 

 trees and timber, utilisation of forest by- 

 products, bird and animal life, chemistry, 

 geology, book-keeping, plan drawing, and 

 forest botany. During their stay in the State 

 woods each pupil should receive a weekly wage, 

 with use of rooms and free attendance at 

 evening and other classes. For purely tech- 

 nical purposes these woods will not have 

 arrived at their greatest value till after, say, 

 twenty years, but previous to that the pupils 

 may receive benefit by an occasional visit to 

 some of the old Crown or private woods, where 

 the felling and converting of heavy timber is 

 in operation. From twenty-five years on- 

 wards the Crown woods will afford every 

 facility necessary for the education of the 

 young student. By such a system of pro- 

 cedure our foresters will be enabled to gain a 



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