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26. Afforestation of Waste Lands in Denmark, Holland, 

 France, Belgium, and Germany. ^ 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have been supplied 

 through the Foreign Office with some information, of which a 

 summary is given below, respecting the afforestation of waste 

 lands in Denmark, Holland, France, Belgium, and Germany. 

 This information was originally obtained at the request of the 

 Irish Department of Agriculture on behalf of the Irish Forestry 

 Committee. 



Denmark. 



Mr Vice-Consul Funch states that no fixed grant is made by 

 the State in Denmark for the acquisition of waste lands, but 

 between 1867 and 1892 about 42,000 acres on the Jutland 

 moors and 1450 acres in Seeland were purchased at a cost of 

 ^42,780. The expenses incurred in planting the above- 

 mentioned areas in Jutland, and those which in previous years 

 had been acquired in the same province, have in recent years 

 amounted to ^3300 annually, in addition to about ^600 per 

 annum for fencing, roads, etc. Tree planting on the dunes 

 along the coast of Jutland, for the purpose of protection from 

 drifting sand, is, however, continually going on, and the 

 expenses during the last twenty years have averaged about 

 ;^330o for purchase, and ^11,100 for planting. 



Grants are made annually to the Danish Heath Society, 

 the special object of which is to encourage tree-planting in 

 Jutland. The amount allowed, as a rule, for each separate 

 plantation is one-third of the outlay for cultivation, fences, 

 roads, etc. The revenue of the State Forest Department in 

 1906-7 was ^82,900, and the expenditure ^^60,280, leaving 

 a profit of ^22,620. During the last ten years the average 

 profit has been ;!^i 9,000. 



Holland. 



Sir Henry Howard, H.M. Minister at The Hague, has 

 forwarded a memorandum drawn up by the Netherland 

 Ministry of Agriculture, from which it appears that varying 

 amounts of from ^1000 to ^2000 have been annually included 



^ From the Journal of the Board of Agriailture, Feb. and March 1909. 

 Summarised by the permission of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. 



