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districts that may be calculated to produce at least from 

 2| to 3 cubic metres per hectare per annum.' 



In European Russia there are, according to a consular 

 report (1907), 228,973,000 acres of State forests. In the 

 consular district of St. Petersburg alone, 204,000,000 acres 

 of forests exist, while forests are said to stretch in a 

 broad belt across the whole length of Siberia. In such 

 a vast area it is obvious that many forms of management 

 or mismanagement may be met with, but all evidence 

 points to the fact that the timber resources of this enormous 

 country are, with the systematic management that is being 

 gradually introduced, practically inexhaustible. 



In Finland nearly 40,000,000 acres of forest exist, 

 13,000,000 of which belong to the government. Finland 

 has a population of only 3,000,000, spread over an area of 

 about 60,000,000 acres, equal to 5 per 100 acres. The 

 present export of timber (1907) is, according to a writer in 

 the Timher Trades Journal, about 2,000,000 cubic metres, 

 or a little over 1,000,000 tons. An export tax is placed 

 upon unmanufactured wood, as in Sweden. 



Apart from private forests, and those owned entirely by 

 private companies, etc., there would appear to be an area 

 of at least 300,000,000 acres of forest in European Russia, 

 Finland, Sweden, and Norway, owned by the state, corpora- 

 tions, communes, etc., all of which have adopted, or 

 certainly will adopt at some time or other, a policy of 

 forest conservation. If the future annual yield from this 

 area is put as low as one-fourth of a ton per acre, a possible 

 annual output of at least 70,000,000 tons is secured, leaving 

 out of account the timber obtained from 200,000,000 acres 

 of private forests, which cannot be inconsiderable in 

 countries in which compulsory upkeep of forests is 

 enforced in some form or another. 



Of parts of the Quebec forest area the following state- 

 ment was made by a Crown official in 1882 : — ' It is 



