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-■5 ^o 35 years' purchase of the annual rental. Nor is it possible 

 to make an accurate estimate of the capital required for buildings 

 and equipment until it is known what buildings are already 

 available on the estate purchased, and, further, whether any 

 part of the accommodation required can be conveniently found 

 in a village near the Demonstration Area (see 6). The follow- 

 ing estimate is based on the assumption that the whole of the 

 accommodation must be provided in new buildings. Buildings, 

 as above, ;2{^i2,95o; furnishings and equipment, ^2550; total, 



Note. — The estimate includes the installation of hot-water 

 heating in the school, the students' hostel and the apprentices' 

 quarters. 



(2) Annual Expe)iditu7-e. — In estimating the initial annual 

 outlay of the school and Demonstration Forest, we do not include 

 the wages of labourers and apprentices and the general expenses 

 of forest management, the amount of which will depend upon 

 the extent and state of the property, the available crops of 

 timber for disposal in the immediate future, and other circum- 

 stances. The salaries given above, with an estimate of ^360 

 for heating and lighting of the school block, books, stationery, 

 plans, postal accounts and incidental outlays, give a total 



of ;^2400. 



9. Ou/Iyi/ii^- Areas. — The soil and climate of Scotland vary so 

 much that a single central forest cannot be typical of the whole 

 country. It would be possible — and this is an arrangement 

 which has often been suggested — to supplement the central 

 forest by outlying areas under the same superintendence. But 

 outlying woods a hundred, or even fifty, miles from the main 

 block could not be included in the same working-plan as the 

 central forest, unless they were large enough to justify the 

 appointment of separate officers. 



The areas most' needed to sui)i)lement a central inland 

 Demonstration Forest would appear to be — 



(1) A lowland area, suitable for hardwoods. 



(2) A west coast area, with heavy rainfall and relatively 



high winter temperature. 



(3) An east coast area, with a small rainfall and a cold 



bright winter. 

 The present teaching centres happen to lie in districts which 

 exhibit precisely these conditions. 



