DISTRICT ADVISORY FOREST OFFICERS. 4 1 



than a contribution of los. per day towards the actual traveUing 

 and incidental expenses incurred in connection with field work 

 and the preparation of such plans. 



But before any District Advisory Officer can begin the field 

 work certain preliminary information will be required, and the 

 landowners will be asked to furnish the Board with various 

 details. These details are indicated in the annexed memorandum, 

 and forms for making the returns will be supplied by the Board. 



MEMORANDUM detailing the Preliminary Information needed 

 before the Board of Agriculture for Scotland will be 

 prepared to lend the services of a District Advisory Forest 

 Officer for preparing Working-Plans for woodlands and 

 plantable lands which landowners may wish to work 

 for profit : — 



1. Situation (County and Parish) ; area and general description 

 of the estate: and its legal position (whether held entailed or 

 in fee simple). 



2. Summary of the total area (in acres) of the woodlands and 

 the lands intended to be planted. 



Acres. 

 A — Ornamental Woods, Shelter-belts, Game 

 Coverts, etc., not intended to be worked 

 for profit ....... 



B — Broad-leaved Woods and Plantations, and old 

 Coppices and so-called "natural woods," 

 intended to be worked for profit 



C — Conifer Woods and Plantations intended to ' 

 be worked for profit .... 



D — Land intended to be planted .... 



Total Area 



3. A Complete Register of all the woodlands summarised under 

 A, B and C, and of the plantable land under D, giving full 

 details of all the woods and plantations, etc., to which the working- 

 plan is intended to apply. Each separate compartment of wood, 

 plantation, coppice, or land for planting, should, in each of the 

 classes A, B, C and D, be numbered {seriatim in each class) and 

 named, the kind of crop and the age of the crop given for 

 classes A, B and C, and the area (in acres) stated. 



