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Similar increases in per capita consumption can be shown from the 

 census statistics in the U. S., which is probably the largest wood consumer 

 in the world, with 350 cubic feet per capita consumption, while in Germany 

 the consumption is only 43, and in Great Britain about 15 cubic feet. 



The statistics of Canada show that the value of the forest products in 

 1891 was $80,000,000, of which $56,000,000 was used at home while she 

 exported lumber and other products to the value of $24,000,000. This was 

 an export of $15.60 per capita and represented a consumption of 250 cubic 

 feet per capita as compared with Great Britain's 15 cubic feet ; moreover, 

 the wood consumption in Canada is increasing very rapidly. Ontario 

 alone derived a revenue of $1,276,000 from timber licenses and dues in 

 1901, showing that this province can well afford to establish schools of 

 forestry as a business proposition. , 



Statistics show that Canada has 800,000,000 acres of wood land, but 

 of this vast acreage probably not fifty per cent, may be considered as forest 

 land fit for timber production, the rest perhaps able to satisfy domestic and 

 pulpwood demands, but not to be considered in connection with the timber 

 requirements, which at the present rate of consumption amounts to 5,000- 

 000,000 feet per annum ; only under proper supervision will this area of less 

 than 400 million acres, much of it badly damaged by fire, continue to sup- 

 ply growing demands for a long time. With the decrease of supplies in 

 other countries and the increase of their needs for imported wood pro- 

 ducts, the value of Canada's remaining forest wealth, will appreciate 

 and readily repay the care bestowed on it. 



To sum up : Consumption of wood is so enormously and constantly 

 increasing, that, in spite of substitutes, wood will remain a necessity. 



Natural supplies, however abundant, must give out unless we can and 

 do reproduce them. 



Nature's reproduction is uneconomic in character, space and time; 

 and hence man's action becomes necessary, giving a more rational treat- 

 ment to forests everywhere. 



Forestry becomes the necessity of every country, and especially for 

 those countries that have large supplies and are bound to be great timber 

 producers in the future. 



The natural forest resource as we find it, consists of an accumulated 

 wood capital lying idle and awaiting the hand of a rational manager to do 

 its duty as a producer of a continuous highest revenue. 



Such management, however, it does not receive in the crude exploit- 

 ations to which it is subjected in all newly developed and developing coun- 

 tries ; on the contrary, the wasteful use of the soil is only intensified ; for 

 these exploitations, the operations of the lumberman, consist in a mere re- 

 moval of the valuable portions of the growth, a cashing of the accumulated 

 wood capital, without the slightest reference to future revenues which 

 might be derived from it in the shape of wood growth. In fact, he does 



