SCIENCE TEACHING
! TO THE EDITOtt. Sir,—Your open letter in yesterd'-'s issue might have added this little bill of costs:—Our Indian Empire has some ' 250 million acres' of permanent forest reserves, which is 31. per cent, of the total area of the country All but a small fraction of this forest is inferior, acre per acre, to the ordinary milling forest of New Zealand. "Hardly anywhere is there forest eqnal in value to a, -well-stocked kauri forest. Yet after half a century of scientific forestry, India is spending only £18,000 a year on artificial plantation. (H. R. MacMillan, in Forestry Quarterly. Washington, December, 1916.) f New Zealand, has no peunanent forest reserves; no Forest Deportment; no chair of Scientific Forestry at. the University. New Zealand is spending yearly on artificial' plantation more than double what India spends—£39,ooo; £18,000; and, up to date, New Zealand has sunk some £2,000,000 in risky plantations of exotic trees! "Ergo,. spend a few thousand pounds in teaching scientific forestry, and save millions.—l am, etc., i - ' ■ ANGLO-INDIAN. [ gist. December,, 1918.,
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 152, 24 December 1918, Page 7
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