68 PRACTICAL FORESTRY 
are fairly, most people would say sufficiently, edu- 
cated; and their healthy life in the open air and con- 
stant exercise preserve a physical development, a 
strength of frame and constitution, that is rare in 
these days of machinery and easy chairs! Judging 
from what I saw at a recent visit to the forests of 
Germany and the big towns of England, I should say 
that England could better afford to pay £20,750,000 
for foreign wood than to lose the broad-shouldered 
and muscular men who once worked in her forests. 
These are the men whom we value as colonists—men 
fitted to go forth and subdue the waste places of the 
earth.” 
