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their character might become a model for all others to 

 imitate. And, besides, it would be desirable for the 

 manager and his professors to visit, from time to time, the 

 woods on other properties, and take with them their 

 pupils to see them, when they would have an opportunity 

 of comparing the management of other woods with that of 

 those on their home district ; and in this way the pupils 

 would get much useful information and experience, within 

 the shortest possible time, under the guidance of their 

 teachers, and thus render them more intelligent and 

 experienced than they would be were their observations 

 confined to the woods on the home field alone. . . . 



1 In dealing with the pupils, the amount of fees they 

 would pay would, of course, depend upon whether they 

 were lodged in the institution or not, and had bed and 

 board provided for them. I should say that they should 

 be resident in the institution, and all receive like treat- 

 ment as to education, board, and lodging. If they were 

 not resident lodgers, irregularity would be certain to 

 ensue, and want of proper rule. Then, if lodged, 50 a 

 year might be a fair charge for each pupil. At all events, 

 it should not exceed this sum. In accounting with the 

 pupils they ought to have put to their credit, and 

 deducted from their fees at the end of each term, when 

 settlement is made, the value of the work they perform in 

 the woods, at a fixed rate per hour or per clay, as may be 

 arranged. This would make them more industrious than 

 they otherwise would be, and make them take good 

 interest in the works they were engaged in. This value 

 of work would, of course, be refunded to the association 

 by their account against the proprietor of the woods for 

 the work performed in them by their pupils, 



' In order that the pupils might be properly instructed 

 in all the branches bearing on arboriculture, and to secure 

 the professors and all concerned doing their duties, an 

 examination of the progress made by the pupils should be 

 made by the president and directors at the end of every 

 six months, and afterwards put to the credit of the most 



proficient and deserving 



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