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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almost out of date.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 
