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the case of large areas maintained by the State, and that would 

 probably create permanent work and industries in the woods, 

 as in Continental forests which have a population of their own. 

 Good roads and forest paths, and proximity to railways are 

 of course an immense advantage in all cases, and any facilities 

 that reduce the cost of haulage increase the value of the crop 

 to the owner. We have often known these conditions to 

 affect the price of timber at a sale to the extent of from five 

 to twenty per cent, one way or the other ; and they must 

 always affect the prospects of planting on private estates. 

 Much has been said about planting waste lands in the High- 

 lands of Scotland ; but instances are on record there in which 

 the very best timber has been worthless to the owner because 

 it could not be delivered to the consumer at a price that left 

 a margin of profit. In_the " Highland Society's Transactions," 

 vol. vi., p. 271, we are told that, " in 1841 the wood cut down in 

 Glentanar brought little or anything more than the cost of 

 cartage to Aberdeen, owing to the almost inapproachable 

 position of the best trees in the forest, most of them being too 

 heavy to be floated by the river except in the time of flood." 

 Many such examples might be recorded. 



