$4 AFFORESTA'llON IN SCOTT. ANMl 



On the whole, the writers are of opinion that tlie cases in 

 which State purchase can be recommended will be those in 

 which the greater part of the subject, whether sheep farm 

 or deer forest, is capable of afforestation. 



II. — Long lease by the State, with administration by the Forest 

 Authority, as in A'o. I. This method has the advantages 

 that : 



(a) With the exception of rent and compensation 

 to tenants, all the money provided by the State 

 would go into afforestation ; 

 (/') A continuous scheme of management would be 



secured : and 

 [c) The forest managers would deal with woods only, 

 and not with whole estates. 



The terms of the lease, though difficult, should not be 

 impossible to arrange, and a rough draft of " Heads of 

 Agreement" (Appendix C) is submitted for consideration. 

 This method seems specially applicable to the Glen Mor 

 district. (For reasons, given in full, vide Chapter lY.) 



III. — Co-operation i>y partnersliip lu'tweeti tlie proprietor and the 

 State. . The landlord would put up the value of his land, and the 

 State would provide the money, parallel and separate profit and 

 loss accounts being kept for the proprietor and for the State, 

 the net profits being di\ided between them pro rata on the 

 expenditure. 



This method, although it has many of the advantages of 

 Xo. II., is complicated, and has many of the disadvantages 

 of dual ownership. It might be found advantageous in many 

 cases where the landlord could afford to be out of his revenue 

 for an extended i)eriod, and did not wish to wholly resign his 

 interest in the woods. It has one great advantage which no 

 other method gives quite in its entirety, viz. : scope for the two 

 classes of experts each to handle their own concerns — viz., 

 the Forest Authority, the silvicultural intei-ests ; the landowner, 

 the sporting and farming interests ; while, at the same time, both 

 combine for one purpose — to obtain a full yield of forest products 

 from the soil. 



IV, — The encouragement of individual effort ly Stale loans for a 

 fixed period at a low rate of interest. The money to be expended 



