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was, after afll, only a question of education — training, 

 if you prefer the word. The recommendations of 

 the Commissioners on the score of afforestation 

 erred if anything on the big side. They advocated 

 the planting of 9,000,000 acres by Government, 

 of which 6,000,000 were to be in Scotland, and the 

 balance in England, Wales, and Ireland. Nothing 

 came of it. Not a single tree was planted. 



Before I come to the Development Commission 

 (1910) I will finish with the Committees of this 

 period. The sixth Departmental Committee (on 

 Forestry in Scotland this time) was appointed in 



1911 and issued its report in 1912. It made recom- 

 mendations on forestry education, and advocated 

 the acquisition of a Demonstration Forest Area. 

 It also considered the question of afforestation in 

 Scotland, and suggested the ^ilndertaking of flying 

 surveys of the country to 'ascertain the available 

 planting areas, the estabhshment of a Hmited 

 number of State trial forests, and the appointment 

 of Forestry Advisers. The last recommei^dation 

 was given effect to. No planting was done. In 



1 912 also appeared a Forestry Report issued by the 

 Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society entitled A 

 Forest Survey of Glen Mor and a Consideration of 

 Certain Problems arising therefrom. This report, 

 drawn up by Lord Lovat and Colonel StirUng of 

 Keir, was an attempt to grapple with some of the 

 economic difficulties which confront afforestation 

 in that part of Great Britain. Its pre-war value 

 has unfortunately been discounted to some extent 

 by the vast economic changes which the war must 



