Nov. 25, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
767 
WORK OF BRITISH DEVELOPMENT 
COMMISSION. 
The first report of the British Development 
Commission, which was created in 1909, and 
which is permitted to spend £500,000 ($2,433,- 
250) each year until 1915- has just been issued, 
covering the period May 12, 1910, to March 31, 
1911. 
The purpose of this large development fund 
was to provide advances for different branches 
of research work, and especially to promote, 
scientifically, the agricultural interests of the 
United Kingdom. With reference to forestry, 
the following principles have been enunciated 
by the commissioners: 
A. —That the first requirement for such de¬ 
velopment is effective education in forestry at 
suitable centers, regulated by organized re¬ 
search and demonstration. 
B. —That no scheme of State afforestation on 
a large scale can be considered until investiga¬ 
tion has shown where State forests might be 
economically and remuneratively provided (re¬ 
gard being had to the interests of other rural 
industries) and until a trained body of foresters 
has become available. 
C—That, for the present, applications for 
grants for the above purposes should include 
provision for the creation and maintenance of 
such staff as may be necessary to give practical 
advice and assistance to those who desire to 
undertake afforestation or to develop existing 
afforested areas. 
The Commission concludes its report as fol¬ 
lows: 
These appropriations do not take account 
of the considerable sums, of which no definite 
estimate can yet be given, but for which schemes 
are either being prepared or were under ex¬ 
amination at the close of the year, e. g., for¬ 
estry in England and Wales, the purchase of a 
demonstration area in Scotland and the estab¬ 
lishment there of a central school of forestry, 
the development of Irish fisheries and fishery 
harbors, and the encouragement of the organi¬ 
zation of co-operation throughout the United 
Kingdom. Nor do they take account of appli¬ 
cations which had not reached the commission, 
though known as having been made or about 
to be made to the Treasury, as for instance 
schemes for the development and improvement 
of British fisheries and of Scotch harbors;, nor 
again of possible expenditure on such projects 
as the revival of the flax and hemp industries, 
the encouragement of tobacco and beet cultiva¬ 
tion, or the establishment of an institution for 
the study of rural economics. 
SHOT AT ONLY ONCE. 
In view of the carelessness of many of the 
gunners it is surprising that there are not more 
deaths from accidental shooting among those 
who are compelled to pass unprotected along 
New Jersey’s roads after the season opens. 
Many schemes have been tried by men with 
families dependent upon them to lessen the 
danger from this source. 
One of the most successful is that of a promi¬ 
nent resident of Secaucus who has to traverse 
a narrow strip of bushes on his way to the 7:18 
local in the morning. When he has bidden his 
faithful wife and seven helpless children a sad 
farewell after breakfast and cautioned them to 
be sure and shake the furnace down well and 
close the draughts in the evening in case he 
does not return alive, this man, who asks that 
his name be not made public, dons a scarlet 
coat made from an old blanket and walks rapidly 
to the station, whistling. So far he has been 
shot at only once this year, by a Pole, who 
thought the whistling sounded like a quail. But 
the season is young yet.—The Sun. 
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