FORESTRY SUBCOMMITTEE 



in twenty-five to thirty years, and is there- 

 fore to be recommended for short rotation or 

 where the planter wishes to receive proceeds of 

 outlay during his own lifetime. 



From a purely national point of view our 

 future supplies of pit- wood will require serious 

 attention when afforestation is taken in hand 

 by the Government and private landowners. 

 Experience has pointed out that all the pit- 

 wood necessary for our own wants can be 

 grown at home, and from a forestry point of 

 view the cultivation of such will be attended 

 with a considerable margin of profit; while it 

 has this advantage over the growth of heavy 

 timber, in that the planter will reap the 

 rewards of his labour during his own lifetime 

 a serious drawback in the past to the 

 formation of plantations the produce of which 

 does not arrive at maturity for a century at 

 least. With the average class of prop- wood 

 from twenty to twenty-five years suffices to 

 produce that of just the sizes required, so that 

 the planter has every prospect of reaping the 

 benefits from planting that he may engage in 



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