338 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
If the Swedish Government could apply efficient restrictions 
to the working of the whole wooded area of the kingdom, it 
would thereby secure a constant output, which might be treated 
as a permanent minimum. But such outturn would certainly 
prove to be far smaller in amount than that which is now being 
cut; and the oft-predicted shortage of timber available for our 
daily requirements is appreciably nearer at hand than it was 
before this Bill was passed, 
