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FORESTRY EDUCATION 



The educational side of the forestry question comes 

 in the forefront of the whole business, since without 

 the trained and qualified men you cannot embark 

 with safety on any scheme, be it large or small, as 

 the past state of British forestry has well demon- 

 strated. 



We have aU learnt from the war that Germany's 

 great source of strength lay in the manner in which 

 she made full use of experts, in their several special 

 lines of work, in furthering the economic develop- 

 ment and interests of her Empire and peoples. In 

 the future we may hope to see the expert occupjing 

 his rightful position in the economic work of this 

 nation. In the existing absence of knowledge on 

 the subject of what scientific forestry aims at in 

 this country, it is perfectly certain that it will be 

 merely throwing money away to place this afforesta- 

 tion matter in the hands of any but experts. It 

 becomes the duty, therefore, of all the forestry educa- 

 tional establishments in the coimtry to set about 

 turning out fully trained and qualified men for the 

 various grades of a future forest service at as early 

 a date as possible, for it will be those men who will 



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