ii8 FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE 



of a tract of forest. The inhabitants of the village 

 are permanent employees in the forest, and enjoy 

 certain privileges with reference to the right to 

 forest produce, either free or at reduced rates, and 

 have a certain area of grazing-lands allotted to the 

 village community as a whole in addition to each 

 villager having sufficient arable land to raise the crops 

 necessary for his family and stock. By means of a 

 co-operative system all spare produce could be 

 marketed. The occupants may even own a portion 

 of the forests in the neighbourhood in joint owner- 

 ship, and work it as a communal forest. This is, in 

 fact, the principle of the small holder combined with 

 the forest worker, and if appUed in this country, 

 it would enable the small holder to live the social 

 existence demanded by the present-day labourer, a 

 point already alluded to in Article VII. 



It would also give some assistance in the matter 

 tobereferrredto later, of taking up the winter graz- 

 ing-lands, which will form the bulk of the plantable 

 land in some parts of the country, and the rougher 

 ground at the higher elevations used for summer 

 grazing, which may have to be taken up along with the 

 other in manj^instances, although at present above 

 the planting level, since the summer grazing loses 

 its chief value unless it has the wintering attached 

 to it. A block of land, including winter and siunmer 

 grazing, could be made over to the smaU-holder 

 village, and to the larger farms in the vicinity, to 

 be used conjointly. For this purpose the size 

 of the small holding will require to be definitely 

 defined. At present under the Act all holdings of 



