52 AFFORESTATION IN SCOTLAND. 



majority of the 7000 acres of natural woods will be replaced by 

 plantations by the fortieth year of the forest scheme. It is vital 

 to the scheme that the totality of employment under A., B., and 

 C. (p. 46), should steadily increase in amount from decade^to 

 decade : very careful estimates must therefore be framed to make 

 certain that the yield of employment from the natural woods is 

 not exhausted before the creation of employment by second 

 thinnings from young jilantations is established. 



Wages. 



It is important to show the total expenditure in wages which 

 will be incurred in an average year of the first decade: — 



Planting 450 acres per annum at the rate of ;£3 per 

 acre, less deductions for cost of administration, 

 seeds and tools ..... say ^1150 



Draining work, not including tools, at the rate of 5s. 



per acre ........ 1 10 



Fencing 4 miles of deer fence, at ^65, and 4 miles 

 of sheep fence, at ;^35 = ^4oo, of which one- 

 third is cost of labour . . . . 133 



Men clearing the planting area, 150 acres per annum, 

 on charges based on felling, carting, birch 

 brooms, etc. (z'/V/df Chapter X.) .... 650 



Wages of forest guards at ^/^i, and of trappers at 



22s., per week ...... say 650 



Expenditure on houses: one-tenth of ^{^14,000, 

 allowing 50 [)er cent, of total expenditure to go 

 in wages, ^700 per annum; and allowing a 

 reduction of ;!^2oo for the work crofters them- 

 selves do on their own houses . . . say 500 



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^ N.B. — When conij)arii\i; ihis fif^uic ;!f 3053 with the total annual expendi- 

 ture, page 45, it must be noted that wages for clearing limber off the planting 

 area is included in the one case and not in the other. 



