(Atnndian Forcslri/ Journal, April, 1917 



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BALKAN LUMBERING METHODS 

 Serbian lumberjacks drawing out logs. Modern methods of woods operating have made little im- 

 pression on the Balkan countries, but the reorganization following the war is expected to introduce 

 economical systems of utilization. 



years is accepted in this calculation 

 for the maturing of a tree. 



As to the Government's method of 

 collecting dues, the Amur province of 

 Siberia affords an illustration. Here 

 the management is in the hands of a 

 local Government office of the De- 

 partment of Domain. The tax is 

 collected on the cubic contents of the 

 logs sold, ranging from one-half to 7 

 cents per cubic foot, according to the 

 importance of the forest, size, kind, 

 and form of timber, distance from the 

 market and means of transportation. 



British writers have frecjuently 

 pointed out, as mentioned in a recent 

 article in the Canadian Forestry 

 Journal, that with Great Britain and 

 Belgium and to some extent, France, 

 seeking timber in enormous c|uantities 

 after the war, there is a danger of the 

 Allies bidding against one another and 

 So running the prices to extreme 



levels. It has been suggested that 

 Russia be called into council on this 

 point so that her great forest resources 

 shall be placed at the disposal of the 

 Allies under favorable terms. Ger- 

 many and Austria have large amounts 

 of timber, owing to their highly-de- 

 veloped systems of scientific forestry, 

 and with such wood-exporting neut- 

 rals as Sweden, might have the tim- 

 ber markets of Europe at their mercy. 

 British writers as a rule do not look 

 to Canada to solve this riddle, owing 

 to the great cost of ocean freightage, 

 and owing quite as much to the de- 

 struction of the most easily-logged 

 timber in Eastern Canada which, had 

 the method of exploitation been 

 radically different, might today have 

 supplied the United Kingdom to the 

 great benefit of buver and seller. 



R.B. 



