24 AFFORESTATION IN SCOTLAND. 



Annual cost to Forest Authority in rent, 



— one-third of ;;^5 500. . . . say ^1770 



Sheep Farms and Grazings^ including diflerence 

 between ewe stock and flying stock, sport- 

 ing rents, and allowance for grouse taken 

 over, on 



Parts of — Aberchalder, 

 ,, Ardochy, 



„ Auchteraw, 



,, Borlum. 



Annual rent chargeable to Forest Authority, . say £, 600 



Total ^2370 



Less Deductions for arable land and common 



grazings on which will be settled forest 



workers who will pay rent for the said 



land, on 



Auchteraw, 



Borlum, 

 Aberchalder, 

 Glenmoriston, 

 And certain improvable land on sheep 

 farms and deer forests. 



Total value deducted, say, . ^,' 300 



Net rent chargeable to forestry proper ^2070 



That is to say, roughly, 18,000 acres (of which 15,000 acres 

 fall within the Fort Augustus Block) will be obtained at a rental 

 of ^2070 a year; or, in other words, for 2s. 3^d. per acre, the 

 Forest Authority will obtain a long lease over some of the best 

 larch ground in Scotland — ground which the late Professor Mayr 

 of Munich, and other authorities, have declared to be the best 

 planting ground in luirope. 



The German authorities have purchased land uptOp^i5 an 

 acre to round off a forest block. Up to 1 15s. an acre for waste 

 land has recently been paid by them for land inferior to that 

 in Glen Mor; while they have given an average of 66s. per 

 acre for heath land which would compare unfavourably with 

 the second grade land in the surveyed area. 



In addition to the annual rent paid for loss of purely grazing 



