50 AFFORESTATION IN SCOTLAND. 



5. Thinning and manufacture of old Scots pine woods. 



6. Manufacture of timber cleared from the planting area. 



{A^.B. — The cost of clearing and carting of these 

 woods is included under Planting). 



Table of Work. 



The following " Table of Work" has been prepared to show 

 how the labour required in the woods would increase from decade 

 to decade : — 



First Decade. 



Plantitig. — Nursery work ; 450 acres of planting, including 

 clearing plants ; bracken switching (on 900 acres), and 

 after the first year "beating up" at the rate of 3 to 5 

 per cent. ; draining ; fencing ; clearing the planted area 

 of birch and other natural crops. 



Houses. — Foresters' houses, sixty crofters' houses and stead- 

 ings, sawmills, etc. 



Land. — Preparation and division of agricultural land ; 

 reclamation and trenching of land where arable land 

 is not available. 



Felling. — Thinning, clear cutting and manufacture of birch, 

 oak, fir and other natural woods. 



Second Decade. 

 Flaniing, for five years — as above. 

 Planting, from the fifteenth to the twentieth years, at 300 



acres per annum. 

 Houses. — At the rate of 20 per decade. 

 Land. — Reclamation of land for new crofts. 

 Thinnings. — After fifteen years, stake-making, etc., from 



larch thinnings. First thinning of Scots pine, etc. 

 L'elli/ig. — Old woods, as before. 



Third Decade. 

 Planling — as above, 300 acres per annum. 

 LLouses — as above. 

 LavuI — as above. 



/'irsf thinnings. — At the rate of 450 acres per annum. 

 Second thitiniugs. — At the rate of 450 acres per annum. 

 Spruce crop. — Preparation offences and roads. 

 Felling. — Old natural woods, as before. 

 Manufacture. — Posts, etc., from second thinnings. 



