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direct state control. It aims to im- 

 prove the education and training of 

 foresters and rangers at the expense 

 of the state and is seeking to extend 

 fire and other forms of protection 

 over all forest lands. 



"The financial success of German 

 forestry," remarks Prof. W. R. Lazen- 

 by, "depends mainly on two factors: 

 First, good means of transportation ; 

 and second, that the owners, whether 

 they be state, city or private, refuse 

 to sell more than a small annual per- 

 centage of the stand. By doing this, 

 the market is never overstocked, for 

 the demand is always greater than 

 the supply, and the price received is 

 much greater than the cost of produc- 

 tion, including the interest on the 

 money invested at compound rates." 



What Lesson for Canada? 



No reader of this Journal will, of 

 course, fall into the error of picturing 

 Canada, at her present economic mile- 

 post, as able to multiply Germany's 

 revenue, per acre, by Canada's poten- 

 tial timber-growing area. Germany's 

 revenues, like those of France and 

 Switzerland, are the product very 



largely of a keen local demand for 

 wood materials in all forms, a re- 

 stricted supply, and zealous manage- 

 ment of the forest itself as the repro- 

 ductive source of raw materials. 



Canada, however, may read in the 

 experience of European countries a 

 prophecy of immense industrial de- 

 velopment of vast public revenues, of 

 increased population and an .over- 

 flowing export trade, reared upon the 

 pillars of an undimini-hing forest. 



When Canada has 50 millions of 

 population, every square mile of for- 

 est will assume an economic import- 

 ance now undreamed of. The older 

 the world grows, the greater is its 

 insistence upon lavish supplies of 

 timber and pulp. Time, of course, 

 will never alter the fact that 80 per 

 cent, of habitable Canada is non- 

 agricultural, and fit only for tree 

 production. 



Forests cannot be grown between 

 spring and fall. 



If Europe enjoys today the rich 

 prizes of a century of constructive 

 forest management, the time to plan 

 for the Greater Canada of 1950 or 

 IQQO, in respect to its forest proper- 

 ties, is Now. 



The Tree-bordered Shores of Lake of Bays, Ontario 



