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and the maintenance of a definite proportion of growing merchantable timber. 

 What will we do about it?" 



The reader is urged to consider Mr. Griffin's statements in conjunc- 

 tion with Dr. Fernow's article in the February number (especially 

 pages 153-154) and the note on "Forestry and Paper Making," pages 

 258-260. A. B. R. 



Paper Trade Journal, New York, Vol. LXVI, No. 6, Feb. 7, 1918, pp. 93-97. 



Arosenius, in a short article, discusses the util- 



Szi'edish ization features of forests in Sweden. He points 



Forest out that the 90 million dollars or so of forest 



Industries products exported in 191 3 represents two-fifths 



of the total value of Swedish exports and makes 



Sweden the second largest exporter of wood materials in the world, the 



United States being first, with Russia and Austria following. During 



the years of the war this position, to be sure, has been improved, so that 



Sweden is now the first exporter in the world. 



The high place occupied by Sweden in the international tiinber trade 

 is primarily due to its many watercourses adapted to river driving. 

 These have been systematically improved, and the river driving is 

 carried on by booming associations under State control, charging a tax 

 fixed by the provincial governments, some 16,000 miles of such water- 

 courses being available. The sawmill and expo'rt business has been 

 developed to its large extent since the middle of the century. At that 

 time the abundant water powers available led to the location of mills 

 where these could be developed, necessitating the transport of the mill 

 product to shore ; later steam sawmills were located on the coast, greatly 

 cheapening the cost. There are now over 1,000 industrial mills, besides 

 smaller home affairs. The detailed statistics of the mill industry are 

 given. Pine (Scotch) and spruce are the only two woods exported, the 

 pine being graded into five grades, but the spruce wood being shipped 

 without classification. Two mills, one at Korsnaes and the other at 

 Skutskaer, are believed to be the largest in Europe, working with 30 

 and 24 frames respectively, and shipping annually some 85 million feet 

 b. m. The entire cut in 1913 was around 3 billion feet b. m. The ex- 

 port is increased slightly over this figure by unmanufactured material. 

 The United Kingdom is by far the best customer, with over one-third 

 of the total export. France comes next, then Denmark, and Germany ; 

 even Egypt, Africa, and Australia participate in the export. At present 

 a larger than usual amount of mine props are being exported. In con- 

 nection with the wood-pulp and cellulose industry the increased utiliza- 



