AFFORESTING AND THE UNEMPLOYED 



Carnarvonshire, North Wales, by unemployed 

 labour may be valuable to others who have 

 the arranging and carrying out of extensive 

 schemes of tree-planting, as proposed by the 

 State. 



During the strike of workmen at the Pen- 

 rhyn Slate Quarries the idea occurred to the 

 late Lord Penrhyn to afford suitable employ- 

 ment to a number of the men by planting up 

 a considerable area of ground on an exposed 

 spur of the Snowdon range of hills. One 

 wood in particular that was formed under the 

 supervision of the writer by unemployed 

 labour is now an object-lesson, not only in 

 what can be done in the planting of compara- 

 tively waste mountain land, but also by unini- 

 tiated workmen when placed under proper 

 supervision. The plantation referred to ex- 

 tended for a considerable distance along the 

 hill-side, ranged in altitudes from 500 to up- 

 wards of 600 feet, and was fully exposed to 

 the long and hard-hitting winds blowing in 

 from the Irish Sea. Previous to planting, 

 this ground, with hundreds of acres of the 

 adjoining hill-sides, were rented by the ad- 



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