ADVANTAGES OF AFFORESTATION 



hitting blasts were of almost constant occur- 

 rence, and the amount of shelter and warmth 

 it now affords to the farm stock and lower- 

 lying lands would hardly be credited. Previous 

 to forming this particular plantation, which 

 was at altitudes varying up to 600 feet, the 

 adjoining lands were quite incapable of cul- 

 tivation, but now crops are gradually creeping 

 up the hill-sides, while the farm stock find the 

 much-needed shelter and warmth that they 

 were formerly denied. So great has been the 

 benefit of this wood both to man and beast 

 that the farmer on whose land it was planted 

 speaks of it as a godsend. Other similar 

 cases in Wales might be mentioned, as on the 

 Gwydyr and Penrhyn Estates, and near 

 Abergele, where the judicious planting up of 

 rocky, almost worthless land has converted 

 dreary and inhospitable districts into the most 

 fashionable and expensive residential pro- 

 perty. But in many parts of Scotland, par- 

 ticularly Perth, Inverness, and Aberdeenshire , 

 equally good results have been obtained by 

 judicious tree-planting. 



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