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the troubles of others, whereas the cases are curiously parallel, 

 and \i a. post-vi^x import of ;^6,ooo,ooo is to cost the Australians 

 ;j4^335, 000,000 (in a country that can grow mature timber in 

 thirty years), what is it going to cost us with a pre-v/a.x import 

 of ;^43>ooOjOoo ? 



In several passages the author compares the wasted forests 

 of Australia to the cleared and barren areas in Britain, and in 

 each case puts forestry as employing ten times more men 

 than sheep farming. 



The following extracts are worth quoting for us to read and 

 thereby learn : — " Rural depopulation is admittedly the great 

 social problem in Australia." "Rural depopulation is bad in 

 France, in some of the provinces, but it is eating the heart out 

 of modern Britain." "On the Continent of Europe there is no 

 pauperism (in the British sense), and there are no workhouses. 

 In Britain there is no State forestry (in the Continental sense), 

 and ^43,000,000 going out of the country for imported timber, 

 while nearly one-third of the area of the British Isles is waste 

 land." " It is not realised by many in Britain, and by fewer 

 still in Australia, that State forestry affords a considerable 

 remedy for rural depopulation." " Belgium has accomplished 

 what Britain has been talking about for the last thirty 

 years. ... It now has a Forest Department of 750 men, and 

 provides winter employment for 32,000 men, and it is getting 

 a fair interest on its forest expenditure." J. L. P. 



Far?n Forestry. By John Arden Ferguson, A.M., M.F., 

 Professor of Forestry at the Pennsylvania State College. 

 New York : John Willey & Sons. London : Chapman and 

 Hall. 1916. 



This book is written primarily for the American farmer. The 

 system of farming, and especially the position of the farms, often 

 remote from forest regions, so that supplies of agricultural timber 

 and firewood cannot be easily obtained, have made it necessary 

 that each farm should have its own small area of forest, called 

 the wood-lot, which is a tract of wooded land maintained to 

 furnish fuel, posts, structural timber, and other wood products 

 for use on the farm. 



The wood-lot is usually situated on some part of the farm 

 where soil and surface are not suitable for agricultural purposes ; 



