262 FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA 
that the department was not deficient in scientific 
attainment or incapable of imparting special know- 
ledge to others. They found no difficulty in doing 
so. Then, too, began the publication of forest 
manuals, wherein was set forth in simple language 
such knowledge of silviculture and its cognate 
sciences as would serve to take Indian students of . 
forestry on the road’to higher attainments in their 
profession; while at the same time series of 
pamphlets, records, and memoirs, were first started 
to form an Indian forest literature that should serve 
both for public information and for the use of succeed- 
ing generations of foresters. The time had, in short, 
fully arrived when the necessity of utilizing the 
knowledge that was available, and of increasing it, 
was amply acknowledged. 
The result of raising the standard of education, in 
answer to the demand for work of a better class 
from the forest establishment, was inevitable. The 
best material, even at its lowest price, must be more 
costly than an inferior article, and therefore it 
followed that, in order to attract a superior class of 
recruit, better terms had to be offered, both as re- 
garded salaries and other labour conditions ; and in 
consequence a reorganization of the establishments 
of each Province, both as regards their strength and 
remuneration, had to be undertaken. Such an inves- 
tigation, affecting the welfare of over 15,000 sub- 
ordinates, was, in spite of the extra labour involved, 
peculiarly congenial to at least one of those engaged 
therein, who was firmly convinced of the disadvan- 
tages under which many of his colleagues laboured. 
It occupied several years to bring this work even 
