used for deer, sheep or common grazing, it is found that the 

 land varies from that suitable for the faster growing conifers 

 on the lower slopes to land on the upper slopes which will 

 produce 40 cubic feet per acre per annum. Taking a return 

 of only 60 cubic feet per annum as an average return on the 

 whole area and allowing 30 cubic feet of grown timber to the 

 ton, it is figured that about two tons per acre per annum will 

 result. Taking the gross value of timber at from six pence 

 to ten pence per cubic foot, the gross annual return works 

 out at something between 1.10s. and 2. 10s. per acre. 



The figure generally accepted by the Commission for 

 employment in forest land is one man to every 100 acres 

 during the planting stage, one man to every 50 acres in the 

 productive stage, and one man to every 25 acres when forest 

 industries have been established round the forests. 



Where necessary the Commission provides housing for 

 its foresters and forest labourers. 



In respect to private and corporately owned woodlands, 

 which the Commission under the Act is also bound to assist, 

 the policy adopted and in effect is that of offering assistance 

 to landowners and corporate bodies, during the initial ten- 

 year period in reafforesting at least 50,000 acres of old wood- 

 land as well as in planting 60,000 acres of new lands, at an 

 estimated cost to the Forestry Fund of 327,000, of which 

 137,000 is allotted to proceeds-sharing schemes between 

 private individuals or corporate bodies and the State, and the 

 remainder to the bestowal of grants and loans. The grants 

 contemplate paying 2 per acre as an inducement to private 

 owners to replant felled areas and to extend the area of their 

 operations. 



For educational work, the Commission contemplates an 

 initial expenditure of 20,000 a year, it being expected that 

 educational institutions participating in the grant will provide 

 a similar amount on the pound for pound principle. 



A personal visit paid to the Dean and Highmeadow 

 forests and to the Tintern Woods, situated in Gloucestershire 

 and Monmouthshire, and to other State forests, found them in 

 the hands of competent forest engineers who are making 

 splendid progress in their efforts to bring these woodlands 

 back into the highest degree of efficiency and economic return. 



