respectable workmen, many of them heads of families, 

 that will need to be employed a part of the time in 

 afforestation, must have many little farms on which 

 they will raise subsistence for their families. Quite 

 often a "section" (640 acres) of our land, the most of 

 which could be classified as suitable for afforestation, 

 contains at least forty acres fairly arable, and it is 

 such tracts that would become permanently utilized in 

 agriculture in carrying out a scheme of afforestation. 

 Up to the beginning of the present war, in the state 

 forests of Germany, one workman, on an average, was 

 steadily employed for every one hundred acres. In 

 planting a forest, many more would, of course, be em- 

 ployed. 



"We have estimated," say the committee, "that five 

 pounds, ten shillings will be expended per acre planted, 

 exclusive of local supervision and equipment, and of 

 that sum about five pounds per acre will represent la- 

 bor employed in raising plants, fencing, preparation of 

 the ground for planting and planting itself. For every 

 one hundred acres planted, therefore, five hundred 

 pounds will be spent in wages, representing a full 

 year's wages for rather less than eight men. The 

 scheme of state afforestation which we recommend be- 

 gins with the planting of 3,300 acres in the second year 

 and works up to 30,000 in the tenth year. Assuming 

 that on the average 10 men will be required for plant- 

 ing each 100-acre tract per annum, the number of men 

 permanently settled on the land will be 330 in the 

 second year and 3,000 in the tenth year.- 



" Timber," the committee say, "large enough for 

 sawing should begin to be produced about the 50th year 



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