NATIONAL AFFORESTATION 



rigidly conserved, while our home demands 

 are ever on the increase. 



Taken as a whole, Europe has not enough 

 timber to meet her demands, about 4,000,000 

 tons in excess of what she produces being 

 annually required, and stringent laws have 

 been passed regulating the output. This is 

 the case with Norway, Sweden, Finland, and 

 Russia. The Canadian forests and those of 

 the United States are both nearly exhausted, 

 and by a competent judge it has been said 

 that in fifteen years little or no timber will be 

 left if depletion goes on in these countries as 

 at present. But the worst is that there are 

 no forests to fall back upon, for the timber of 

 those of Africa and India and South America 

 is unsuited generally to our wants. Australia, 

 China, and Japan require at present more 

 timber than they produce. 



For the past thirty years I have not failed 

 to urge on the Government and private 

 owners of woodlands the pressing necessity of 

 planting up some, at least, of the waste and 

 unprofitable lands of our country in order to 



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