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but these have not borne the fruit they might 

 have done, and the proposals then made are now 

 almost out of date. Although * more skilful 

 management ' was recommended, nothing ade- 

 quate has yet been done to supply the instruction 

 which may develop the skill ; for a knowledge 

 of Forestry no more comes by intuition than does 

 skill in Medicine. One can easily, as with drugs, 

 find out what has bad effects, but the correct 

 and beneficial treatment can only be arrived at 

 by sound theoretical instruction, careful, intelli- 

 gent study, and practical experience and observa- 

 tion of results under different local conditions. 

 If any young landowner, or prospective land- 

 owner, or any student of land agency wish to 

 obtain a thorough training in Forestry and the 

 cognate sciences, there is as yet no institution 

 in the British Isles at which he can obtain the 

 same except at an expenditure in time and money 

 far beyond the means of most of those who 

 might be desirous of thus studying Forestry as 

 it is studied in almost every other country in 

 Europe. And the practical result of want of 

 opportunities of this sort is that the woodlands 

 we have, even when managed mainly on what 



