302 Sweden. 



acres of State and communal forest, it will be under- 

 stood that the control cannot be very strict. 



The net revenue from the State forest during the last 

 30 years has increased from $300,000 to $1,750,000. 



The management of even the State forests can only 

 be very extensive. The State still sells mostly stum- 

 page, rarely cutting on its own account. The lumber- 

 ing is carried on very much as in the United States 

 by logging contractors, and the river driving is done 

 systematically by booming companies. Selection 

 forest is still the general practice, now often improved 

 into group system, although a clear cutting system 

 with planting has been practised, but is supposed to 

 be less desirable, probably because it entails a direct 

 money outlay or else because it was not properly 

 done. A seed tree management preferred by private 

 owners for pine seems frequently not successful. Of 

 the State forests 90% are under selection system, and 

 of the private forest 60%. 



In the southern provinces where planting is more 

 frequently resorted to, 2-3 year old pines and 2-5 year 

 old spruces, nursery-grown, 2,000 to the acre, are gener- 

 ally used or else sowing in seedspots is resorted to, which 

 is more frequently practised in the middle country. 



Some 10,000 acres were, for instance, planted by 

 the forest administration in 1898, at a cost of $2 per 

 acre, and the budget contains annually about $20,000 

 for such planting. 



That private endeavor in the direction of planting, 

 has also been active, is testified by a plantation of 

 over 26,000 acres, now 35 years old, reported from 

 Finspong Estate. 





