24 DIRECT UTILITV OF FORESTS. 



crops. Hence the importance of putting a certain proportion 

 of the land, not required for field crops, under forest. 



It is perhaps not expecting too much that aftbrestation 

 will yet help to meet the difficulty of providing work for the 

 unemployed during winter. At any rate, afforestation would 

 require a considerable quantity of labour and thus materially 

 help to reduce the number of the unemployed. 



