AFFORESTATION OF THE CAMPS CATCHMENT AREA. 



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case of larch, at or before the 20th year, when from /^5 to 

 j£io or more may be reaUsed per acre for thinnings. At a 

 later stage the larch woods may yield 2s. or more per acre, per 

 annum, for grazing. As regards final returns no approxima- 

 tion even can be made, but the following will show that in the 

 West of Scotland certain species yield large returns on a 

 comparatively short rotation. The example is that of a larch 

 plantation on rough grazing land.^ "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 forty-one years of age, and 

 gave 380 trees per acre, with the following financial result" : — 



Income. 



943 cub. ft. sold at is. 3d. 

 85 ,, for home use at is. 

 7188 lin. ft. 5 ins. pitwood at 32s. od. per cent. 

 1638 ,, 4 ., 19s. 6d. ,, 



1200 ,, 4 „ iSs. od. ,, 



4188 „ 3 „ 8s. 9d. 



Total 



£^^'. 



4 II 



Expenditure. 



Felling, logging, and carting .... ;^32 13 

 Freight and lighters : and railway charges 



on 102 tons . . . . . 26 14 



Total 

 Giving a net income per acre of 



• ^59 7 8 

 ;^i63 17 3 



In order to obtain data which will be of great value not only 

 in the future development of this area but in drafting similar 

 schemes for other areas in the West of Scotland, accurate 

 accounts of all details of income and expenditure should be kept 

 and be made available for purposes of research. 



I am engaged at present preparing the working-plan showing 

 in detail the whole proposals. My survey and examination of the 



1 See AjforestalioH in Scotland, by Lord Lovat, and Cajitain Stilling of 

 Keir, 1911, pp. 74, 75. 



