NATIONAL AFFORESTATION 



have proved that up to sixty or seventy 

 years there is an annual return of 15s. per 

 acre per year for thinnings. The cost of 

 felling and converting the timber on each 

 120,000 acre section would approximate 50 

 per acre, or a total of 6,000,000, to which 

 should be added another 2,000,000 for 

 haulage and railway carriage, this work giving 

 constant employment to about 70,000 men. 

 Taking the cost of planting each year, this 

 would represent work for fully 4,000 men. 



From carefully compiled figures, based on 

 the experience of the past thirty years, the 

 afforesting of waste land which at present 

 brings in an annual rental of under 3s. per 

 acre would yield, after paying cost of land and 

 planting, 42s. for larch and 20s. for Scotch 

 pine and spruce. 



