EEPOET ON SUPPLIES OF HOME-GEOWN PIT-WOOD 

 IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 



Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 Whitehall Place, 

 London, S.W. 



30th November, 1914. 

 SIR, 



I HAVE the honour to submit a Report upon the supplies of 

 home-grown pit-wood in England and Wales. 



About half of the total amount of pit-wood imported into the 

 United Kingdom comes from Baltic ports and, as a result of the 

 outbreak of war and the action of Germany in declaring pit-wood 

 contraband, the supplies from this source have been very seriously 

 curtailed. It became necessary, therefore, to ascertain the extent 

 of home resources (from which only a fraction of the total supplies 

 of pit-wood consumed in this country is normally drawn), and the 

 means by which home supplies could, if necessary, be stimulated 

 in order to compensate for the possible deficiency in foreign 

 supplies. 



An enquiry into the whole subject was undertaken by the 

 Board's Forestry Branch with the assistance of the Forestry 

 Advisory Officers. The general supervision was entrusted to 

 Mr. R. L. Robinson, and the following officers were engaged in 

 collecting information in the country : 



Inspectors : 



Mr. L. S. Osmaston. 

 Mr. G. H. Crosfield. 

 Mr. D. W Young. 



Assistant Inspector : 



Mr. W. H. Guillebaud. 



Advisory Officers : 



Mr. J. F. Annand (Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon- 



Tyne). 



Professor Fraser Story (University College, Bangor). 

 Mr. B. B. Osmaston (Oxford University). 

 Mr. C. Hankins (Cambridge University). 

 Professor H. A. Pritchard (Royal Agricultural College, 



Cirencester). 



These officers commenced their enquiries in the third week in 

 September. Each one undertook a prescribed district and personally 

 visited the estates upon which he reported. The method of 

 procedure is stated in more detail in the Report. In most districts 

 the enquiry was terminated by the third week of October, but in 

 the case of a few districts further enquiries were made in order to 

 obtain more complete information. 



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