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South Sea Islands 



Exclusive of Guam, Hawaii and the Samoan Islands, there are 

 about 14,000,000 acres of forest land scattered through the South Sea 

 Islands. There are various valuable woods in this section but the 

 commerce is not highly important either in import or export. Little 

 or no system of forestry is in vogue. 



Spain 



Figures vary for the forest area of Spain, some setting it as high 

 as sixteen million acres, but general opinion is that the area is not in 

 excess of twelve million and that the productive forest area is slightly 

 less than that. According to Spanish statistics approximately 12,000,- 

 ooo acres are in State or communal ownership, with some five million 

 acres privately owned. The cut of the forests of Spain appears as 

 much in doubt as the forests themselves, 150,000,000 cubic feet 

 constituting a not too conservative figure. Spain is both an importer 

 and exporter, the latter figure being slightly higher. A law designed 

 to promote conservation is on the statute books but there is consider- 

 able wasteful cutting being practised and more power is sought for 

 the Director General of Agriculture, Mines and Forests. The Royal 

 School of Forestry graduates a class annually and the chief public 

 movement in behalf of forestry is on the part of the Royal Spanish 

 Society of Friends of the Forest, publishers of the Spanish 

 Forestry magazine. 



Spanish Africa 



Insignificant forest resources are found in the Spanish African 

 possessions, Spanish Guinea being the only important one with some 

 four million acres of forest chiefly important as a source of mahogany. 



Sweden 



Sweden has a total forest land area of about 58,000,000 acres, 

 with the area of her productive forest land between three and four 

 million acres less than that. The State owns wholly or jointly about 

 13,000,000 acres, enjoying the income from about ten million acres 

 and controlling the cut entirely or in large measure on all of the 

 public acreage. About one and one-half billion cubic feet are cut 

 annually, about one-half of which is exported. Sweden has an effec- 



