NATIONAL AFFORESTATION 



in most of the leading journals and papers of 

 the day, including a special article to the 

 Field and the Gardener's Chronicle, while in 

 my evidence given before the Select Committee 

 on Forestry, and in a paper contributed by 

 special request to the Board of Agriculture, I 

 went fully into the question of afforesting, and 

 pointed out the need for and saving to the 

 country that would be effected by a well-organ- 

 ised scheme of tree-planting. In connection 

 with such I suggested, as before stated, that 

 as a start 1 ,000,000 acres should be planted over 

 a period of twenty-five years, at the rate of 

 40,000 acres per year, which would be an outlay 

 of 300,000 annually a small sum when com- 

 pared with the 45,000,000 expended for many 

 years by this country on supplies from abroad. 



The Forestry Subcommittee of Eeconstruc- 

 tion has now reported that 1,180,000 acres are 

 to be planted in the first forty years, which 

 cannot be considered as an extravagant 

 scheme, and is practically what the writer 

 suggested twenty years ago and at several 

 later dates since. 



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