(on account of the moister climate coniferous forest 

 grows more rapidly in the United Kingdom than in the 

 United States), and by the 80th year the forest should 

 be in full working order. It will then require about 

 one man per hundred acres for felling, replanting, re- 

 pairs to roads and miscellaneous work not including 

 the conversion of the timber. The last named operation 

 should give employment to about the same number of 

 men as the forest work itself." 



The committee estimate "the yield for conifers at 70 

 cubic feet (of which 40 cubic feet is large timber and 

 30 cubic feet pit wood and pulp wood) per annum per 

 acre of afforested land." 



"As our scheme provides for the ultimate afforesta- 

 tion of 1,770,000 acres it follows that the total amount 

 of labor required for running the forests will be about 

 17,700 men. Allowing for the displacement from sheep- 

 farming of 2,000 men at the outside, the net gain would 

 be 15,700 men. If account be taken of the conversion 

 and manufacture of the timber produced the net gain 

 is upwards of 33,000 men. If account be taken fur- 

 ther of the labor which will be required to supply the 

 wants of these forest workers we think it is not unrea- 

 sonable to assume that the scheme would result ulti- 

 mately in the settlement on the soil of not less than 

 25,000 families, or, on the basis of five persons per 

 family, of 125,000 persons in all. "We are of the opinion 

 that the increase of population under such healthy con- 

 ditions and with continuity of steady employment 

 would be a national asset of no mean value." 



To manage and carry into effect their plan of affor- 

 estation, the committee recommend the appointment of 



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