UTILISATION OK EXISl'IXG WOODLAND PRODUCK. 75 



work provided for an increased local population. Without 

 attempting to make forecasts having an appearance of exact- 

 ness, but being possibly misleading, it may be more appropriate 

 here to give a summary of actual results obtained within the last 

 ten years from the sale of larch growing on rough grazing land 

 on a hillside in the West of Scotland, but the exact locality of 

 which I am not at liberty to state. The hillside has a north 

 aspect, and is exceptionally favourably situated close to a 

 sea-loch with easy and very exceptionally cheap transport by 

 ship to the Clyde. The wood was felled at 41 years of age, 

 and gave 3S0 trees per acre, with the following financial 

 result : — 



Income. 



943 cub. ft. sold at 13^ 

 85 ,, for home use at i - 

 7188 lin. ft. 5 in. pitwood at 32 -' 

 763S ., 4 „ 19/6 



1200 ,, 4 ,, 18- 



4188 „ 3 „ 89 



Total, ;^,2i7 16 II 



Experiditiire. 



Felling, Logging and Carting . £.^2 13 6 



Freight and Lighters ; and Railway 



charges on 102 tons. . . 26 14 2 



Total, 59 7 8 



giving a net Income per acre of . 



^158 9 



In this case both the expenditure on carting and also that on 

 transport to the place of consumption happened to be exception- 

 ally low ; but they serve to show how large may be the sums 

 payable to local labour, in respect of the utilisation of woodland 

 produce, and in addition to wages paid for planting, thinning, 

 tending, etc. These figures have been given by the forester who 

 felled and sold the timber, and with the sanction of the estate 

 factor , and I desire here to thank them both for kindly placing 

 such interesting and instructive data at my disposal. 



With regard to the prospects of establishing wood-pulp and 



1 Is. a fool for i;oo(l Uucli limlicf in si In is the usual inarkel price. 



