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Then there is the equally important advan- 

 tage of finding profitable work for the un- 

 employed, but as a special chapter is devoted 

 to that important subject, it need only be 

 mentioned here. Winter work for farm- 

 labourers and cottagers in connection with 

 coppice wood and its various manufactures 

 must also be considered. 



Excellent results, too, have followed in the 

 wake of planting bog-lands in Ireland, and in 

 1862 my father formed several plantations 

 there, a full account of which will be found 

 in the Transactions of the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society of Scotland for 1873. I 

 examined these woods in 1900, and was agree- 

 ably surprised at the height to which the trees 

 had attained, the cubic contents of timber, 

 and price realised. Incidentally, it might be 

 noticed that the ground previous to planting 

 was a dreary, heath-clad waste, and only of 

 value for snipe-shooting and the production 

 of turf for fuel. But many such cases of the 

 numerous advantages of tree-planting could 

 be cited. 



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