104 AFFORESTATION FOR THE PEOPLE 



operations throughout the year is well known. A 

 certain head of additional labour is required at 

 certain seasons for whom no employment is available 

 on the farm at other times. 



Well, the same is true in forestry, and even more 

 so, and the slackest periods in agriculture are those 

 when the forest management demands the greatest 

 amount of additional labour. 



The significance of this fact becomes at once 

 apparent. 



With a proper combination between agriculture 

 and forestry on a country-side, a sufficiency of labour 

 is assured for both industries at their several seasons ; 

 both industries can depend on obtaining a labour 

 force cognizant with the work to be done ; the 

 labourer is assured of a whole-time living wage 

 throughout the year, with a bit over with which he 

 and his family may enjoy some amenity in a rather 

 hard life; and finally, by associating the agrico- 

 forestal colonies in settlements, they can enjoy con- 

 jointly the modern-day social necessities of church, 

 school, shops, recreation-hall, and so forth. 



To those intimately acquainted with a country-side 

 and the present-day requirements of the rural in- 

 habitants, the above exposition of the case will 

 appear self-evident. But it is of the first importance 

 that those who have charge- of the afforestation 

 business, and the public who have to pay for it, 

 should reahze to the full the altered conditions in 

 the rural districts. 



You may start planting schemes by means of 

 imported labour — they must be so started — but 



