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Forestry in Finland. 



[march, 



proposal for the establishment of Scholarships in Forestry at 

 Bangor and Newcastle to be offered to Students, Associates or 

 Fellows of the Surveyors' Institution. It is also proposed to 

 offer a Scholarship at Cambridge. The details of the scheme 

 are now under consideration. 



The steps taken by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests 

 with regard to the small school of forestry for woodmen in the 

 Forest of Dean, were referred to in the previous note on this 

 subject. This school was started in January, 1904, with nine 

 student workmen, of whom seven were already in the employ- 

 ment of the Crown in the forest and two came from Windsor. 

 These young men are paid for their work, receive practical 

 instruction in the woods, and attend lectures in a class-room 

 provided in the Crown Office at Coleford. 



With a view to making the Alice Holt forest available as a 

 demonstration area for the practical study of forestry, the Com- 

 missioners have obtained from Dr. Schlich, CLE., an exhaustive 

 report on the condition of each of the woods comprised in this 

 forest. In this report, Dr. Schlich expresses his general 

 approval of the operations recently carried out, and develops in 

 detail a working plan for their continuance in the future. This 

 scheme will be followed as far as possible, but the difficulty in 

 getting the required amount of labour just at the right time of 

 year for wood cutting in this district may for some time to come 

 restrict the extent of the operations as laid down in the scheme, 

 and the fall in the price of bark, and the increase in the cost of 

 labour and of rates may, it is stated, considerably interfere with 

 the estimated net receipts. 



The forests in Finland, although still numerous, are in several 



districts, particularly in the southern parts, almost entirely cut 



down, owing to the good prices offered for 



Forestry in timber of small dimensions, particularlv 

 Finland. 



props and so-called paper-wood. This 

 tempted many owners to do away with the last of their forests, 

 and now they have scarcely sufficient left for their own use or 

 for building purposes. The buying up of large estates by the 

 saw mill owners has also caused the land thus acquired to be 



