greater part of Finland's large lumber cut comes. 

 In addition to the state and privately owned forests 

 there is a considerable area of municipally owned 

 forests. 



Pine, spruce and birch are the principal Finnish 

 forest trees. In 1910, which may be taken as a 

 normal year, after, for a long time having vigorously 

 encouraged the transfer of land from forest to agri- 

 cultural use, Finland imported about $20,000,000 

 worth of agricultural products while it exported 

 about $50,000,000 worth (80 per cent of all exports) 

 of forest products. These figures show the value 

 to Finland of her forests in international trade. 



NOTES 



Michigan now has a delinquent tax law by which 

 lands on which the taxes are not paid, actually re- 

 vert to the state irrevocably and become a part of 

 the state forests. Most people think that the same 

 thing is true in Minnesota, but it is not. No land 

 ever reverts to the state here and no tax title in the 

 state is worth more than 12 per cent unless accom- 

 panied by a quit claim deed. 



The Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., 

 has found that the hemlock bark from the paper 

 mills, now a waste product, can be successfully used 



by the tanneries at paying prices. One more step in 

 the utilization of wood waste which means cheaper 

 wood products and higher stumpage values. 



According to Col. H. S. Graves, chief forester of the 



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