VIEWS OF A DISTINGUISHED FORESTER. 



Sir Dietrich Brandis, the father of the present system of 

 Forestry in India, in a letter to Mr. E. Stewart, Dominion Super- 

 intendent of Forestry, makes some valuable suggestions. He 

 says: 



"I cannot sufficiently urge upon you the necessity of con- 

 centrating all your energies upon one point, that is the constitu- 

 tion of as large an area of State Forests as possible, to enable 

 Canada (I mean the Dominion) to supply the greater portion of 

 the coniferous timber now imported into Great Britain, per- 

 manently. 



The timber now imported into Great Britain annually 

 amounts to over nine million tons, valued at .:^24,000,000; and 

 the greater part of this is coniferous timber. Of this quantity 



Sweden and Norway supply 5 million tons. 



Russia supplies 2 



Dominion of Canada supplies 2 " 



Russia, as soon as the present troubles have been overcome, will 

 develop its trade and industries in a manner not anticipated at 

 present, and the result will be that they will consume all the 

 timber this country can produce. Germany formerly was a 

 timber exporting country and it now imports five million tons a 

 year. And this, though the area of productive forests has been 

 steadily increasing, and the annual yield per acre is now much 

 larger than it was thirty years ago. 



Sweden and Norway, tempted by the high prices and the 

 ready market in England, are cutting more than what their 

 forests annually produce. At the same time industry and 

 manufactures are increasing, and the result will be, that that 

 source also will come to an end. 



The United States export very little to England now, and 

 the Dominion of Canada is the only country from which, if the 

 forests are properly managed, a permanent supply of coniferous 

 timber for Great Britain can be expected. 



All this means that prices will rise steadily, and it is for you 

 in Canada now to seize this opportunity and to lay the foundation 

 for a magnificent future development of your wealth. 



Hence it is necessary that you should form as large an area 

 as possible of State forests, and that you should place them under 

 efficient, systematic management so as to secure ample regenera- 

 tion of the species you want, either naturally or by planting. 



