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Fourth Decadk. 

 Planting — as above. 

 Houses — as above. 

 First tliinnings — as above. 

 Second thinnings — as above. 



Spruce. — Felling for wood pulping or other uses. 

 MainifactHre. — Stakes, posts, pulp, etc., from the planted 



crop. 

 Felling — Old natural woods, as before. 



Fifth Decadi:. 

 Probably during, but certainly after, the fifth decade, the 

 clear-cutting of some of the faster-growing short-rotation crops 

 will have begun. The forest will pass into the producing stage, 

 and the employment afforded will rise steadily up to i man for 

 every 60 to 100 acres, depending on the amount of timber 

 manufactured locally. 



Natural Timber Crops, 



Employment would also be given under the heading of 

 Treatment and Realisation of existing timber crops by — 



I. The erection of sawmills and creosoting works, also 

 central wood pulping, acetone works, etc., some of 

 which works would fall within the Fort Augustus 

 Block. 

 "2. The manufacture or treatment of timber at these works. 



3. Heavy thinning outside the planting area, felling, snedd- 



ing, carting. 



4. Light thinning, felling, snedding, carting, and birch 



brooms. 



5. Working the short-rotation birch-broom crop. 



6. The Scots pine (natural) crop— cutting, snedding, carting. 



7. Manufacture of timber from the 150 acres of planted 



ground. (Cost of cutting, etc., is included under 

 Planting.) 



Employment under this head should give, for the first twenty 

 years, at the very lowest estimate, sufficient employment to 

 balance the existing local supply of labour. 



It is important to note that employment on natural timber 

 crops is not constant throughout the rotation. The great 



