68 STATE FORESTS. 



Instead of acquiring State forests the Government may 

 encourage the formation and maintenance of forests by private 

 owners, by assisting them with money at a low rate of interest 

 and by removing through legislative enactments difficulties 

 opposed to good management. If these do not have the desired 

 result, the State may have to proceed to the acquisition of 

 land and afforest it. 



4. General Principles according to which State Forests 

 should he Managed. 



State forests should afford the greatest possible advantage 

 to the community as a whole, and the system of management 

 should be shaped accordingly. 



The question in what manner the community derives the 

 greatest possible advantage from its forests, has given rise to 

 prolonged discussions which have by no means terminated. 

 The advantages may be represented by direct and indirect 

 benefits ; the former may be represented by cash, quantity 

 of produce, or produce of a certain kind, or generally by 

 the financial results of the industiy. All these considera- 

 tions generally express themselves by the manner of determining 

 the rotation under which State forests should be managed. 



There is one party which demands that State forests should 

 be managed according to principles differing from those 

 applicable to private forests ; while the financial principle is 

 admitted in the case of private forests, it is maintained that 

 other considerations should determine the management of 

 State forests, such as the production of the greatest volume, 

 the most suitable description of produce, or the highest 

 possible yield irrespective of interest on the invested capital. 

 Another party will admit no difterence between private and 

 State forests ; it maintains that State forests represent capital 

 which should yield to the nation as a whole the highest 

 possible interest. 



In the author's opinion, there should be, in principle, no 

 difference in the management ot private, communal or State 



