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on a large scale, the necessary land being available at a 

 moderate cost per acre. 



Cost of Forming Plantations. This will vary greatly 

 with the manner in which the work is carried out, the parti- 

 cular district of the country, nature of soil and rate of wages 

 paid, as also whether fencing and draining have to be 

 engaged in. The difference in cost between " notch " and 

 " pit " planting is very considerable, and the fact that the 

 former method is almost exclusively adopted on the rough 

 grounds throughout Scotland accounts mainly for the 

 smaller first outlay on Scottish plantations. Thus at Gran- 

 town, Strathspey, the Countess of Seafield's estate, Mr. 

 Thomson, the very capable wood manager, has planted 

 during the past forty-seven years upwards of 20,000 acres 

 of woodlands, at a cost, including fencing, of rather under 

 2 per acre. In England, however, where, for various 

 reasons, pit planting is adopted, and larger plants are used, 

 the cost varies from 5 to 6 per acre. For all practical 

 purposes, however, the cost of forming plantations may be 

 put down at, say, 5 per acre, as an average taken from the 

 following figures will show : 



ENGLAND AND WALES. 



Yorkshire, at 600 ft. altitude, cost of planting 



and fencing. .... per acre 4 18 

 Kent, fencing and planting 

 Lincolnshire ., 

 Gloucestershire ,, ,, 



Carnarvonshire ,, ,, 



SCOTLAND. 



Inverness-shire, Glengloy Estate, 800 ft. altitude, 



cost of fencing and planting . per acre 3 10 



Ross-shire, up to 1,200 ft. altitude, cost of 



fencing and planting . . . per acre 2 10 

 Perthshire (planting only) . . ,, 2 10 



Blair Athol, 3,665 a-cres, fencing and 



planting . 2 10 



Grantown, Strathspey, fencing and 



planting 200 



