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the State and private owners. The former manages its wood lands 

 through a forest service with headquarters at Tokio, where is also 

 the forest school. Founded within the last ten years, the school 

 has an average attendance of about 150, and has quite recently been 

 under the charge of Dr. Mayr, whose work on The Forests of North 

 America has made his name familiar to the advocates of forestry in 

 the United States. Only a part of the pupils expect to enter the 

 government service. 



" The forest service does not rest satisfied with the present pro- 

 portion of wood hind, but busies itself actively with planting, in 

 connection with which the introduction of foreign species has been 

 attempted. 



" There is a notable export of wood from Japan to China, and, on 

 the other hand, an import from North America to Japan; which 

 last, however, t'.ie Japanese soon expect to be able to do without." 



Dr. Schlich's statement of the destructive tenden- 

 cies of private forest ownership in India might with 

 equal truth have been made as a general proposition. 

 It is the salient fact which the history of the forests 

 of the earth seems to teach; hut nowhere have the 

 proofs of its truth taken such gigantic proportions 

 as in the United States to-day. We are surrounded 

 by the calamitous results of the course that we are 

 now pursuing. In fact, it seems as though there 

 were almost no civilized or semi-civilized country in 

 either hemisphere which cannot stand to us as an 

 example or a warning. To this great truth they bear 

 witness with united voice: The care of the forests 

 is the duty of the nation. 



