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which have not yet attained the permissible maximum degree of 

 utiHzation. 



The development of Sweden has advanced from south to 

 north and the wood-industry has simultaneously advanced north 

 with the exhaustion of the supply in the south. But in spite 

 of the sins and errors on the subject of silviculture and forest 

 protection, and in spite of the enormous growth of the wood 

 industries, growth and use still seem to balance, considering the 

 forests of the entire country. 



Statistics of this sort have been gathered time and again, of 

 course with various results. 



According to the statistics of a committee which reported on 

 the forest conditions in Sweden 14 years ago, the total annual 

 wood consumption amounted to around 1,000,000,000 cubic feet, 

 thus distributed : 



For domestic use of population, 560,000,000 cubic feet 



For wood export, 216,000,000 " " 



For wood-working industries, 54,000,000 " " 



For mining industry, 190,000,000 " " 



Total, 1,020,000,000 " " 



To this must be added the amount of timber left in the woods 

 to rot, windfalls, tops, defective logs, etc., amounting, conserva- 

 tively estimated, to 182,000,000 cubic feet. The total annual 

 cut then amounts to 1,200,000,000 cubic feet, while the total 

 annual growth is estimated at a little more, namely 1,218 million 

 feet. These figures have since been contested and proven un- 

 satisfactory. According to recent investigations the total amount 

 of export material is estimated at almost 250,000,000 feet, that 

 of the wood-working industry has increased to 168,000,000 and 

 the mining industry uses over 14,000,000 feet more than origin- 

 ally. The most indefinite figure is the largest one, that for do- 

 mestic use. Since the great value of the forest has been recog- 

 nized and the population has become more economical in its use 

 of wood, at least of wood of economic value, and much of the 

 defective material which was formerly left to rot, is now being 

 utilized for domestic purposes as well as by the industries, the 



