imported, is not less than three and probably more than 

 five million acres. Two million acres could be devoted 

 to timber production without decreasing the home pro- 

 duction of meat by more than 0.7 per cent, and if so 

 used would ultimately afford employment to at least 

 ten times the number of men now engaged on that 

 area." "In order," say the committee, "to render 

 the United Kingdom independent of imported timber 

 for three years in an emergency, it is necessary, while 

 making due allowance for an improved yield from ex- 

 isting woods, to afforest 1,770,000 acres. Taking 80 

 years as the average rotation we advise that two-thirds 

 of the whole should be planted in the first 40 years. 

 We consider that the quota to be planted in the first 

 10 years should, in view of the initial difficulties, be 

 limited to 200,000 acres, of which we advise 150,000 

 acres should be planted by the state and 50,000 acres 

 by public bodies and private individuals assisted by 

 grants, or by co-operation between them and the state. ' ' 

 "It is not proposed," the committee say, "to plant 

 arable land, but a limited area of arable land should be 

 acquired with the forest sites, wherever possible, in 

 order to provide small holdings for forest workers. 

 Our proposals carry with them the important contin- 

 gent advantage that they will cause large areas of the 

 United Kingdom, now almost waste, to be put to their 

 best economic use." 



Here is an important fact in forestry that does not 

 seem thus far to have made its proper impression in 

 Minnesota ; namely, that the development of our forest 

 resources will at the same time secure the development 

 of much, now idle, agricultural land. The thousands of 



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