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rental value of 50 or under are included, or may be 

 included, as small holdings. In some parts of the 

 country i ,000 acres or more of rough ground could 

 be obtained for this sum. Such an area can scarcely 

 be termed a small holding, although it could well 

 be attached as summer grazing-ground to a collection 

 of small holders settled on the arable land. 



A further difficulty in the creation of the small 

 holdings is connected with the erection of the 

 buildings. The increase in the cost of building 

 and materials is most serious. In connection with 

 the afforestation schemes it may be suggested that 

 temporary buildings might be put up on the 

 areas selected for small holdings, to be replaced, as 

 materials and prices become easier, by permanent 

 ones. This would save the wasteful expenditure on 

 jerry-built cottages, run up in a hurry, with the 

 inevitable dissatisfaction they would give rise to. 

 It would probably work out cheaper in the end, 

 and would result in the afforestation schemes being 

 carried out at a quicker rate, thus affording more 

 labour for demobilised men and women. 



The foregoing remarks are intended to bring out 

 the intimate connection which exists between agri- 

 culture and forestry. On the country-side the two 

 are so inextricably woven together in all countries 

 where commercial forestry forms a part of the 

 economic life of the nation, as to render this recog- 

 nition one of the important factors in any afforesta- 

 tion schemes which are to be undertaken in this 

 country, for the success of such schemes is de- 

 pendent on their being put into force with the 



