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There are two other facts resulting from the for- 

 eign policy of India which are of special significance 

 to us as citizens of a country where any interfer- 

 ence by the government with private rights would 

 be so vigorously resented, and where private enter- 

 prise must consequently play so conspicuous a part. 

 First, a body of efficient and experienced officers of 

 all grades has gradually been formed in the State 

 forests whose services are available for the manage- 

 ment of private forests, and of communal forests 

 when the time shall come to form them. Secondly, 

 the example set by the well managed State forests 

 and the steadily increasing revenue which they yield, 

 has induced native and other forest proprietors to 

 imitate the State. 



The trained foresters, without whom so laudable a 

 purpose must fail, are at hand, and the whole situa- 

 tion argues most favorably for the future prosperity 

 of the country. 



SOUTH AFRICA. 



The organization of the Forest Service at the Cape 

 of Good Hope is of comparatively recent date. It 

 consists of one superintendent, three conservators, 

 four assistant conservators, and the necessary staff 

 of forest guards. Practically nothing had been done 

 in the eastern half of the colony when Mr. Hutchins, 

 the present conservator in charge of the Eastern con- 

 servancy, was called from India to the Cape. The 

 method which he followed and its results are of 

 interest both from the principles which they em- 

 body and from the success of his wise and energetic 

 effort for the protection of the forest in the face of 



