CHAPTER IV. 



FORESTRY ABROAD AND AT HOME. 

 FOUKSTKY ABROAD. 



Kxcept Chinti, all civilized nations care for the forest. 

 I'litil recently the l/nited States ranked nearly with 

 China in this respect, and our country still remains 

 far behind the progressive modern nations in nearly 

 all that relates to the protection, preservation, and 

 conservative use of the forest. Japan has a well- 

 developed forest service and a national forest school. 

 In Austria. Italy, and Norway and Sweden government 

 forestry is a well-established portion of the national 

 life. Tin-key. Greece, Spain, and Portugal o-ive atten- 

 tion to the forests. Kussia. dealing like ourselves with 

 \a-t areas of forests in thinly peopled regions, hut by 

 methods wholly different from our own. is drawing 

 enormous revenues from the systematic care and use of 

 the forests. In (Jermany the scientific treatment of 

 forests has reached, perhaps, its highest development. 

 The foresters of France have perfected a most prac- 

 tical and ellcctive general system of forestry, and have 

 created the dillicult art of controlling the Hoods of 

 mountain tori'ent- by planting tree-. 'I'he Republic of 

 S\\ it/crland. by the use of methods mo-t instructive 

 t<> citixens of the I'nited State-, ha- developed a type 

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