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prise requiring the resources of the State. 

 The individual works largely for personal 

 profit, the State for posterity. 



Hungary passed an Act hi 1879 which 

 made it compulsory to reafforest de-afforested 

 and now barren land, and it prevented the 

 de-afForesting of land which could not other- 

 wise be profitably cultivated unless an equal 

 portion of land was afforested at the same 

 time. The State of Hungary also buys forest 

 land for pleasure resorts, or to prevent 

 foreigners from acquiring large tracts for 

 sporting purposes. We might, I think, follow 

 the example of Hungary in tiiis respect in 

 certain parts of Scotland when the American 

 comes a-buying large estates there for shoot- 

 ing ; and in England, surely, such open spaces 

 as Exmoor and Ashdovvn Forests might be 

 acquired and planted by the State. 



Then there are areas such as the Cotswolds 

 where there is little water, and planting might 

 be profitably carried out in many parts of 

 England up to an altitude of 1200 feet. 



We might begin in a small and an exceed- 

 ingly useful way with afforesting the catch- 

 ment areas which form the gathering ground 

 for water for large towns. JMany thousands 



