CHAPTER X 



MODERN FORESTRY 



^T^ WO things stand out with pecuUar clear- 

 -■- ness in the recollections of a long jour- 

 ney from the island of Gotland in the lower 

 Baltic, a thousand miles or more to the north, 

 beyond the arctic circle, in Sweden, — one of 

 them the use of the elm trees in the country 

 places of the quaint island to the south, as 

 a source of food supply for the cattle, by trim- 

 ming the trees of their young leaves and 

 sprouts, in the early summer, to be stored 

 away for winter feeding for the sheep and cat- 

 tle. The other was the great stretches of pine 

 through which we passed on the day ride by 

 the government railroad north from Stock- 

 holm, where the road winds in and out among 

 the mountains through a most picturesque 

 region, the Switzerland of northern Europe. 

 Very much of the pine of the Swedish forests 

 has been preserved simply by means of the 

 same sort of pressure that is now brought to 



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