he will not be living fifty years hence to see the fruits of his 

 efforts to improve Sweden's forests; certainly not to see them 

 as they will appear after the lapse of another century. Never- 

 theless, his modest admission is not only typical of his own 

 disinterested regard for the forests, but is characteristic alike 

 of the Swedish national attitude towards the subject of forestry 

 in general. Everybody is looking forward to and working for 

 the future. There is not the slightest danger of Sweden ever 

 becoming a forest bankrupt; or that the Swedish forests will 

 ever recklessly be exhausted for the sake of providing immedi- 

 ate profits, however great the temptation. 



That is not to say, however, that Sweden does not now 

 possess fine forests in abundance, or that these forests are not 

 now being utilized to the limit of prudence and to the full 

 extent of the demands made upon them by Sweden's con- 

 stantly increasing export trade in lumber, pulp, paper and 

 other forest products, as well as to supply the domestic require- 

 ments of these commodities. 



After a thorough and painstaking inspection of several gov- 

 ernment forests and four extensive private forests, including 

 those owned by the Mo Domsjo Company, the largest private 

 forests in Sweden, the Holmens Bruks Company, the Kram- 

 fors Company, the Fiskeby Paper Company, as well as of 

 forests owned by communities and by farmers, one is most 

 impressed with the fact that in Sweden the forests are farmed. 

 They are cultivated with all the care and assiduity that is 

 given to the cultivation of the wheat lands in the Canadian 

 Northwest or to the cotton plantations in the Southern States. 

 The result obtained is a permanent, constant and ascertain- 

 able current yield and an assurance that, barring accidents, 

 this yield will continue indefinitely and in increased volume 

 for all time to come. 



Not all Swedish foresters agree as to the superiority of any 

 given method of reforestation but none allows his forests 

 to go uncultivated. Planting and seeding follow cutting 

 almost invariably. Experiments are in progress to ascertain 

 how to obtain a maximum yield in the shortest period of time. 

 Drainage is resorted to to improve the soil. In the Mo Domsjo 

 forests more than 6,000 miles of ditches have been constructed 

 to this end, at large cost but with highly gratifying results. 

 Most of the companies maintain private nurseries in which 



