CHAPTER II. 



THE EDUCATION OF FORESTERS. 



When giving evidence before the Select Committee on 

 Forestry last year, I was asked by the Board of Agri- 

 culture to submit a scheme which I had prepared some 

 time before on the Education of our Foresters. 



Briefly this scheme was that the State should acquire 

 certain areas of waste land in England, Scotland, Wales 

 and Ireland, and in connection with the planting and 

 after-management of these, the establishment of four schools 

 of Forestry and the education of young foresters could 

 go hand in hand. Each school should be under the charge 

 of a competent Britisli forester, whose duty it would be 

 to superintend generally the laying out, fencing and 

 planting of the ground intended for afforesting, and at 

 the same time to impart to the assistant foresters, at 

 classes held in the evening or at other convenient times, 

 such knowledge regarding the various subjects connected 

 with his work as could not be well taught in the open. 

 Preparatory to entering the State forests each assistant 

 should have served at least three years on an estate 

 where the formation and management of woodlands was 

 intelligently carried out, it of course being assumed that 

 lie had previously received a fair education. 



The assistants would act as foremen, and see that the 

 work sketched out by the head forester was properly 

 carried out, and give such assistance and advice as might 

 be necessary in levelling, fencing, draining and planting. 



Five students could be kept at each of the four Schools 



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