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timber from the virgin forest with Httle delay; (2) starting the rejuve- 

 nated, improved cultivated forest as soon as possible ; (3) providing for 

 a fair distribution of age classes at the end of the rotation. The efifect 

 of this management would be that after cutting out the present stock of 

 Kauri and other timber, the forest for about 100 years would give much 

 the same average employment and average money returns as successful 

 dairying on this soil. At the end of 100 years the average stand of tim- 

 ber would be about 10 times the present stand; and the forest revenue, 

 reckoned at double present Kauri prices, would be about $50 per acre 

 per year net in perpetuity. The high prices for timber and the extra- 

 ordinarily high possible returns from good management are. of course, 

 due to the scarcity of timber in that part of the world and the distance 

 from the great forest regions of Siberia and America. 



As compared to a probable net income of $50 an acre under good for- 

 est management, the dairy specialist estimates the present income from 

 grazing the grasslands in this region at only about one-tenth that amount. 

 The author estimates that the forest will eventually give employment at 

 the rate of one family for 75 acres, while dairying requires 201 acres 

 per family. There is food for thought in this statement as well as in 

 the following sentence : "New Zealand wants population more than 

 wealth." 



A. F. H. 



Continuous Forest Production in the Pacific Northwest. Burt P. 

 Kirkland. The Commonwealth Review of the University of Oregon, 

 July, 1918, pp. 63-78. 



There has been no period in American history, aside from the present, 

 when the imperative need for continuous forest production on private as 

 well as public forest lands was so apparent. The war has emphasized 

 the need of forests in national defense far beyond any realization of the 

 past. The rapidity with which the remnants of our virgin stands are 

 being exploited, particularly in the East, and the lack of reproduction 

 and adequate fire protection after lumbering are such the future timber 

 supply for this country is insecure. It is coming more and more to be 

 realized that continuous crop production on our present acreage of 

 publicly-owned forests is inadequate for the future. There should be 

 established at once a strong forest policy which recognizes national, 

 State, and private forest enterprises, all working in co-operation with 

 a single object in view, namely, the continuous production of timber on 

 absolute forest land. 



With about 97 per cent of our annual cut coming from privately- 



