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CHAPTER II. 



MEASURES TO BE TAKEN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 



1. Land available for Afforestation. 



THE land in the United Kingdom, excluding water, is at 

 present used as follows : 



UTILISATION OF THE LAND IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 



It will be observed that 63 per cent, are used for crops and 

 grass, 4 per cent, are woodlands, 20 per cent, mountain and 

 heath land, and 13 per cent, other lands. The latter include, 

 in the case of Ireland, 1,124,111 acres of turf bog and 428,662 

 acres of marsh. 



The area of woodlands, 4 per cent, of the total area, is 

 smaller than that of any other European country except 

 Portugal. Again, only some 67,000 acres, equal to 2-J per cent, 

 of the British woodlands, belong to the State, or rather the 

 Crown, a percentage which is smaller than in the case of any 

 other European State. In France the percentage is 12, in 



