214 MODERN FOREST ECONOMY. 



military man has access to the gaities of city life, and the 

 excitement of the military station. 



The depressing infiu'ence of continuous life in the forest 

 is, I have been told, very considerable day after day, 

 month after month trees, trees, trees everywhere trees 

 and shade, trees and shade shade which reminds one of 

 the expression the valley of the shadow of death. In most 

 if not in all of the Schools of Forestry the students are 

 trained in the use of the rifle. At one institute I asked 

 why this was done seeing that the students would be 

 exempt from military service. The answer was ' partly 

 to enable them to shoot game for the maintenance of their 

 household ; but also partly to fit them for finding relaxation 

 in the chase, when they may feel lonely in their forest 

 home' 



In accordance with the salary and social position 

 assigned to forest officials on the Continent is the salary 

 assigned to officials in the forest service of India, and in 

 that of the colony of the. Cape of Good Hope and other 

 British dependencies. 



Amongst Hebrew apothegms which have come down to 

 us, there is one to the effect, There is that scattereth, and yet 

 increaseth ; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, 

 and it tendeth to poverty ; and another to the effect, The 

 liberal heart deviseth liberal thing r s, and by liberal things shall it 

 be established, or stand. Illustrations of large returns having 

 been obtained from liberal expenditure judiciously applied, 

 is supplied by the history of forestal operations in India 

 during the last five-ana-twenty years. Reference has 

 been made [ante p, 39] to distress having been occa- 

 sioned in India through a great destruction of wood in 

 connection with railway operations there, when these were 

 begun. The consideration of this gave a great impulse to 

 a movement which had previously been initiated to secure 

 the conservation and extension of woods in different parts 

 of India. Interesting and valuable information in regard 

 to this, and to the earlier operations, is supplied in a 



