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Excellent results are said to have followed a system 

 of temporary permits to " forest cultivators," who are 

 allowed to take up a certain area of land at the edge 

 of the forest for agricultural purposes. In return, 

 they are responsible for the police of the forest in 

 their vicinity, and any unreported depredations mean 

 to them the loss of their permit. Very often their 

 contract demands the planting of a certain area with 

 oak in lieu of a cash payment of rent. 



The English oak and American cotton wood and the 

 Eucalyptus globulus are extensively planted through- 

 out the Cape and South Africa generally. 



OTHER COUNTRIES. 



It has been impossible more than to glance at the 

 chief points of forest policy, in a few of the many 

 lands which teem with interest in this respect. I 

 would gladly have called attention to Austria, where 

 an excellent forest service upholds the general prin- 

 ciples which we have seen exemplified elsewhere, and 

 to Italy, where the sale of government forests, forced 

 011 the State by the pressure of financial necessity, is 

 beginning to bear evil fruit. A circle of lands around 

 the Mediterranean might have been cited to instance 

 the calamitous results of deforestation, and from 

 some of them still further proof might have been 

 adduced to show at what a cost such errors must be 

 repaired. But the countries which have distanced us 

 on the road toward a rational forest policy might 

 better have claimed our attention. 



Without passing out of the limits of Europe, it 

 would have been worth while to glance at Sweden, 

 whose government has recognized its obligations as 



