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tiguous felling areas and rapid exploitation, silvicultural considerations necessi- 

 tate small, disconnected felling areas and slow removal of the mature crop, 

 especially if natural regeneration is to be relied upon. Hence accessibility of 

 every part of the forest property, involving large capital outlay, is a silvicultural 

 necessity. 



11. Natural regeneration, while apparently cheaper than artificial reforesta- 

 tion because not requiring direct visible outlay, entails slow — that is, expensive — 

 removal, waiting for seed years, and luck in weather, while artificial regeneration 

 can be forced to success, but requires definite capital outlay. 



12, All points considered, forestry as a business can successfully be applied 

 only or mainly by the community, municipality, or State. Public ownership and 

 operation, rather than control of private forest management, recommends itself 

 on account of the inherent conditions of the business and the difficulty of devising 

 and enforcing methods of control. 



Breaking off for the present the discussion of this great subject, we 

 do not want to leave it without referring our readers specially to the 

 review of the British Reconstruction Commission Final Report, printed 

 in this issue, which elaborates a forest policy for Great Britain and is 

 most suggestive for us at the present juncture. B. E. F. 



