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576,200 tons of chemical, and the 147,800 tons of mechanical 

 pulp shipped from Sweden in the same year no less than 

 150,000,000 cubic feet were required, or over fifty-three per cent. 

 of the quantity needed for the saw-mill industry. If (the article 

 goes on to say) it is borne in mind that the sawn and 

 planed white wood shipped is only about forty per cent, of the 

 whole sawn and planed wood manufactured, and that to produce 

 this only about 112,000,000 cubic feet in form of logs was 

 required, whereas more than this cubic quantity of raw white 

 wood was required to provide the mechanical and sulphite wood 

 pulp produced, the rise in the value of sawn and planed white 

 wood is easily explainable. It may, in fact, safely be asserted 

 that the requirements of the mechanical and sulphite pulp works 

 now dominate the white wood market, and not the saw-mills, 

 more especially in the narrow sizes. Further, the means of 

 production in the pulp trade are continually being augmented, 

 whereas the contrary is the case with the saw-mills. 



How the pulp trade has undermined the prop and pitwood 

 trade is seen from the following — "In 1890, for example, the 

 shipment of props from Sweden (almost exclusively to Great 

 Britain) amounted to 176,458 standards; in 1900 it reached 

 324,514 standards, but gradually dropped after that until in 191 1 

 the shipment only amounted to 151,839 standards." Evidently 

 it has been the demand of the pulp mills that has been at the 

 bottom of this reduction. 



The bulk of the prop trade will be done by Russia and 

 Finland in the near future. 



The article concludes with a plea for the afforestation of 

 waste lands in Scotland in the following terms : — In view of the 

 fact that in the naturally reproduced forests of Scandinavia, 

 Canada, and Newfoundland, the cubic quantity of wood on a 

 given area is not even one-third of what the planted woods of 

 Scotland contain, according to the assertion of one who had 

 many years' practical experience of saw-milling in each of these 

 countries, it seems certain that most of the waste lands of the 

 United Kingdom would now pay well for re-afforestation if this 

 can be effected for not exceeding ;^4 per acre. This has been 

 done in many cases in Scotland, at all events, and the subject 

 ought to be pressed forward without delay. There can be little 

 doubt that there will be a serious dearth of wood in Norway and 

 Sweden before many years are passed, and it will be risky 



