258 Sweden. 



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. Of the State forests 90% are 

 under selection system, and of the private forest 60%. 



In the southern provinces where planting is more fre- 

 quently resorted to 2-3 year old pines and 2-5 year old 

 spruces, nursery-grown, 2,000 to the acre, are generally 

 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 the Finspong 

 Estate. 



Complete working plans are rare even for the State 

 forests, a mere summary felling budget being determined 

 for most areas, the trees to be cut being marked. 



Under instructions issued in 1896, working plans for 

 the small proportion of State forest managed by clearing 

 system are to be made. In these an area allotment 

 method is employed with rotations of 100 to 150 years. 



Forest fires are still very destructive, especially 

 in northern Sweden, although an effective patrol system 

 has reduced the size of the areas burnt over. The coni- 



