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probably always have not more than one-third of its total area fit for the i)low. 

 This happens to be a balance fixed by nature and the part of wisdom is to 

 realise not only from the tillable lands, but the huge untillable areas every 

 dollar of profit that may be derived. 



SWEDEN'S $5,000,000 FOREST INCOME 



An interesting illustration is afforded by Sweden. Its latitude is much 

 higher than that of New Brunswick while it is six times greater in area. 

 Sweden realized early that the eggs of prosperity arc not carried necessarily 

 in the one basket of agriculture. Enormous forests, growing on soil no better 

 than New Brunswick's, within short reach of the European timber markets, 

 promised splendid returns if properly managed. "Proper management" of 

 course, meant not the hit-or-miss exploitation that characterizes so much 

 of Canada's forest development, but scientific care in the growing and harvest- 

 ing of timber as a crop. What the yield of a given area would be fifty years 

 hence was of more importance than the catching of a momentary profit. 

 Fire, the arch enemy of forests, was met and overcome. Fire, indeed, has in 

 the main, been successfully excluded from the great forests of Europe for from 

 fifty to one hundred years. Conservation and good forest management are 

 meaningless terms as long as the plague of flames sweeps off in a week more 

 than the constructive forester can accomplish in ten years. Today, Sweden 

 is taking from her forests, as the dividends of fire protection and sensible 

 development (and without impairing the precious "capital stock" of timber 

 as New Brunswick does), no less a sum than $100,000,000 a year, representing 



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The good effect of keeping live stock out of the farmer's woodlot. No grazing has been 

 allowed on the section to the right of the rail fence with the result that a fine crop of hardwoods 

 has succeeded in getting a foothold. 



