i9o5.] South African School of Forestry. 373 



The indoor resting places of the adults, such as closets beside 

 cisterns, rooms near tanks, &c., should be fumigated by burning 

 fresh dry pyrethrum powder in them. The rooms before treat- 

 ment must be rendered airtight and kept closed for an hour. 



A great step forward in the progress of forestry in South 



Africa was taken last March when a School of Forestry was 



opened by the Government of Cape Colony 



South African for the scientific training of forest officers 



School ^ 

 of Forestry. ^^^^ research in South African forestry. 



Cape Colony has long been known as 



the most progressive colony in the Empire as far as forestry is 



concerned, and it has spent many hundreds of thousands of 



pounds on afforestation during the past twenty-five years. 



Up to the present not half a dozen of the large Cape Forest 

 Staff have received any but practical training in forestry, and 

 those in charge have thus had to carry out much of the work 

 that should have been done by their subordinates. As the 

 forest estate of the Cape has increased so largely of late years 

 and more scientific methods are being adopted in managing it, 

 the necessity of a trained staff has become more and more 

 pressing. The trained men at present in the service have been 

 educated at Cooper's Hill and, latterly, at Yale, but only the 

 favoured few could go to these places on the score of expense. 

 Besides, the instruction given at these places had no particular 

 bearing on South African conditions. 



As the Governments of Natal, Transvaal, Rhodesia, and the 

 Orange River Colony have also embarked on forestry on a more 

 or less extensive scale, the Cape Government is relying on 

 receiving a few students from them and possibly even from 

 Australia, in view of the fact that the Cape School would be 

 the only extra-tropical School of Forestry in the English- 

 speaking world. For these reasons the Cape Government 

 decided to open a Forest School in connection with the 

 Science ^Departments of the South African College. There 

 are at present thirteen students undergoing training, of whom 

 one is from the Transvaal and one from the Orange River 

 Colony. The staff of the school and the subjects they teach 

 are as follows: — • , . : 



