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South America are on a par with those of India 

 and Africa, while China, as also Australia, 

 require more timber than they possess. 



Although large territories of forests, 

 especially in China, Korea, India, and South 

 America, remain to be utilised, it is certain 

 that the question of the future wood supply 

 of the world, now attracting the attention of 

 economists, will continue to excite great 

 interest. Japan is better of! in the way of 

 timber. In Japan proper there are some 

 thirty kinds of good timber trees, and over 

 200 varieties if we include all others which may 

 be called subsidiary timber trees. The area 

 under forest amounts to 47,264,000 acres, 

 being about one-half of the entire area of the 

 country. The Japanese authorities have 

 always taken an interest in the protection and 

 preservation of forests and woodlands. Russia 

 has vast forests of splendid timber from which 

 we will be able to get some of our supplies, 

 which is specially referred to in Chapter XIII. 



Than timber no article is probably more 

 indispensable to the welfare of a nation, 



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