Canadian Forestry Journal, May, 1919 



225 



SWEDEN VERSUS CANADA— A FIGHT FOR 

 BRITISH MARKETS 



Speaking at a lumbermen's meeting in Tor- 

 onto, Mr. Montague Meyer, who is accompany- 

 ing Sir James Ball, British Timber Controller, 

 in his tour of Canada, outlined the purchases 

 that had been made in Canada this year. In 

 the Ottawa Valley they had bought 50,000 

 standards of white pine and red pine. They 

 had also purchased the majority of the wintered 

 stocks of spruce from Ottawa right down the St. 

 Lawrence and practically all of the wintered 

 stocks and some of the fresh cut stocks in the 

 Bay of Fundy and New Brunswick. He said 

 that attention must be paid to the requirements 

 of the European markets for special sizes and 

 grades of spruce if they wished to secure the 

 trade that formerly went to Sweden. "We have 

 no wish to spend a single shilling in Sweden", 

 he said, "if we can help it. At the present time 

 we can not help it, but the time will come when 

 Canadian lumbermen, if they do the right thing 

 in regard to manufacturing what the market 

 wants, will furnish us with the majority of our 



timber and only a small portion of our imports 

 will come from Sweden." 



THE REST OF THE STORY. 



Mr. Meyer might have continued his remarks 

 to include a parallel betwen the development of 

 forestry practice in Sweden and the absence of 

 any such exotic in the Dominion of Canada. 

 Mr. Meyer stopped at the mill-gate. He might 

 have told, with much advantage, how that in 

 Sweden the entire forest area, in public and 

 private ownership, is virtually under a reign of 

 scientific forestry law, that little or no cutting 

 can be done anywhere unless in agreement with 

 forestry regulations. Sweden employs more 

 than four hundred professional foresters as the 

 dictators of cutting practice, with the result that 

 Sweden to a very large extent is taking out only 

 the increment and leaving her forest capital in- 

 tact. This is not true of any part of Canada 

 east of the Rockies except in local patches. — 

 Editor Canadian Forestry Journal. 



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