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pared to frame and carr}' out schemes, the department states that about 

 10,000 acres have been cleared during the last four years on private 

 estates and on the department's forest lands, and that 750,000 seedlings 

 (a bagatelle!) are in hand, in addition to the product of the sowings in 

 the season 1918. In case there should be a deficiency when planting 

 operations on a large scale will become operative, attention is being 

 given to the provision of nursery stock. It is estimated that 40,000,000 

 seedlings were produced by the close of 1917, and about one-third of 

 the total growing stock is available for the afiforestation of some 5,000 

 or 6,000 acres. Application has been made for a grant to aid in cost 

 and maintenance of a proposed school of forestry in central Scotland. 

 The commissioners, though sympathetic with the proposal, were not 

 prepared to recommend the advance under existing circumstances. 

 The commissioners were informed that the Secretary for Scotland, 

 looking in particular to the felling of Scottish forests during the war, 

 was satisfied that Scotland was ripe for definite afiforestation schemes. 



