SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. 23 



ing area. The question will arise as to whether the cost 

 of fencing them into their own preserves can be justified 

 through the increased revenue to be derived from sporting 

 rents.* Where they are not likely to be of some financial 

 value, they must be ruthlessly dealt with in the neighbour- 

 hood of the afforestation area. Circumstances may also 

 arise where a contemplated afforestation scheme may abut 

 on a property on which deer are numerous. In such cir- 

 cumstances the only workable plan will be to require the 

 owner of the deer to keep them on his own land, the cost 

 of fencing to be borne jointly, or to have them treated in 

 such a manner as will render them harmless to the adjoin- 

 ing plantations. 



Finally, it will be necessary, in reference to all classes of 

 game that are or may be injurious to young plantations, 

 or that do, or may, hinder the successful prosecution of 

 forestry, to establish forest laws to operate in the neigh- 

 bourhood of forest areas, forbidding the keeping of an 

 undue stock of certain species of game, the forest 

 authority being empowered to give notice to the re- 

 sponsible party to reduce any particular class of game 

 to requirements within a specified time. Such a law would 

 have to be enforced by the entailment of severe penalties 

 on those who failed to comply with its provisions. 



CHAPTER VI 



SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. 



IT is proposed in this chapter to consider briefly various 

 problems which are bound to arise in connection with the 

 inauguration of any scheme of afforestation questions as 

 to where planting operations should commence, of altitude, 

 shelter, and aspect, and soil quality. The suggestions 



* See note on previous page. 



