the nearest military station to fight forest fires as well as to 

 guarantee payment, in the government's name, to all civilians 

 who respond to his call. 



Swedish forest experts who have visited Canada marvel 

 at the tremendous losses sustained by Canadian forests through 

 the agency of preventable fires. They incline to the opinion 

 that adequate fire protective measures are more necessary 

 in Canada than restrictions on cutting. They are willing to 

 admit that many differences exist between the physical con- 

 ditions in the two countries, but they insist that Canada's 

 forest fire losses could be greatly reduced by systematic effort 

 and good laws properly enforced such as have been applied 

 with such good effect in Sweden. 



ARTICLE No. IV. 



ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL REFORESTATION AS 



PRACTICED IN SWEDEN, AND RESULTS 



ACHIEVED 



STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, JUNE 10. u Yes, Sweden will have 

 some worth-while forests in fifty or one hundred years," ad- 

 mitted Baron Mannerheim, head of the Kramfors Company 

 in Stockholm, one of the largest lumber and pulp concerns 

 in Sweden and among the largest owners of private forests, in 

 reply to a complimentary remark on the condition of Sweden's 

 forests. The Baron knows Canada. He made an extended 

 visit there a year or so ago. He saw much to admire in the 

 industrial development of the Dominion. He thinks, however, 

 that we are not very far advanced in the administration of 

 our forests. "You ought to make indiscriminate cutting im- 

 possible," he said. "You ought to pass laws against it. In 

 the long run, the companies over there would find it to their 

 financial advantage as well as to the country's general good." 



The Baron is himself an ardent believer in artificial re- 

 forestation and has done much for its promotion in Sweden. 

 His company's forestry department under his inspiration is 

 probably the most progressive of any in the country, and is 

 much farther advanced than any other. The personnel of 

 his foresters is exceptionally high. 



I don't know how old the Baron is. If called upon to 

 guess I should say somewhere in the sixties. In all probability 



