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it is so soft as not to be worth export. On 

 the other hand, it would never do to allow 

 the tree to become degenerate before it was 

 felled. It is obvious, therefore, that if 

 forests are properly cared for and their 

 trees planted in sections year by year, a 

 succession of timber of exactly the right age 

 will be available. 



In the forests there will be found the 

 wood-cutters' camp, and almost invariably 

 this camp will be pitched as near to a 

 stream or a creek as possible. Naturally 

 enough, there is no cheaper method of 

 transporting timber than by water, and 

 although the streams and creeks will not 

 penetrate into the interior of the forests, it 

 is often possible to carry forward the work 

 so that the men are never far from water. 



A good deal of the felling is done in the 

 winter months. When the trees are cut 

 down they are first trimmed of their bark 

 and branches, then the trunks are loaded 

 on to sledges and pulled over the snow by 

 horses until the nearest water is reached. 

 As a rule, no effort is made to ship the 



