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ported from foreign countries. The value 

 of this timber considerably exceeds twenty 

 millions sterling, and even then we must 

 add to it another seven or eight millions 

 expended on the by-products of forestry, 

 such as wood-pulp, brooms, brushes, 

 baskets and the like. The afforestation 

 of 6,000,000 acres would meet this demand, 

 insure against a not improbable shortage 

 of future supplies from abroad, and further 

 provide the raw material for new branches 

 of industry, which shall contribute directly 

 to the material welfare of the community. 

 Bearing these facts in mind, it seems 

 wrong that the undeveloped resources of 

 our woods — almost entirely in the hands 

 of private owners — should be consistently 

 neglected for the interests of such com- 

 paratively trivial considerations as sport 

 and scenery — the more so since capital in- 

 vested in woods shows ample security with 

 fair expectation of profitable return thereon. 

 The game - preserver would answer 

 thus : — These facts are doubtless true, 

 but are a subject for action on the part 



