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consisting of more or less mismanaged woods, under the 
administration, not forest management of the Com- 
missioners of Woods and Forests, with Deputy Sur- 
veyors in charge of the ranges. Although there are a 
few notable exceptions in the management, it is to be 
noted that the same stupid ignorance, which introduced 
the clause into the Constitution of the State of New 
York, was enacted into law in 1877 by the English 
Parliament, forbidding in the New Forest all cutting 
and planting. In 1900, there existed just one planting 
plan, made by a professional forester, namely, for a 
portion of the forest of Dean, while now only two 
other State properties and two or three private estates 
are managed under working plans. 
In 1887, a Committee appointed to inquire into the 
administration of this property, expressed itself most 
dissatisfied, but a Committee of Parliament in 1890 
whitewashed the administration and reported that 
the management was satisfactory. 
These committees were also to recommend measures 
for the advancement of forestry. They laid in their 
recommendations the main stress upon education, 
but no action followed, and it can be said that the 
government has never done anything for the advance- 
ment of forestry in the home country, whatever it 
may have done for the dependencies. A Departmental 
Committee again reported in 1902 with all sorts of 
recommendations, which have remained unheeded. 
The interests of forestry as far as the government is 
concerned are at present committed to the Board of 
Agriculture, an unwieldy body created in 1889, from 
which this Departmental Committee was appointed, 
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