CHAPTER IV. 



FORESTRY ABROAD AND AT HOME. 



FORESTRY ABROAD. 



Except China, all civilized nations care for the forest. 

 Until recently the United States ranked nearly with 

 China in this respect, and our country still remains 

 far behind the progressive modern nations in nearly 

 all that relates to the protection, preservation, and 

 conservative use of the forest. Japan has a well- 

 developed forest service and a national forest school. 

 In Austria, Italy, and Norway and Sweden government 

 forestry is a well-established portion of the national 

 life. Turke} 7 , Greece, Spain, and Portugal give atten- 

 tion to the forests. Russia, dealing like ourselves with 

 vast areas of forests in thinly peopled regions, but by 

 methods wholly different from our own, is drawing 

 enormous revenues from the systematic care and use of 

 the forests. In Germany the scientific treatment of 

 forests has reached, perhaps, its highest development. 

 The foresters of France have perfected a most prac- 

 tical and effective general system of forestry, and have 

 created the difficult art of controlling the floods of 

 mountain torrents by planting trees. The Republic of 

 Switzerland, by the use of methods most instructive 

 to citizens of the United States, has developed a type 

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