CHAPTER XXTL 



REMEDIAL MEASURES. 



In Norway it was reported in 1882 that there were 

 147,000 farms, 131,000 of which were farmed by their 

 owners, and to the recklessness with which these treat 

 their forests was attributed much of the impoverishment 

 manifested by these. 



In view of the waste which has been going on, and of 

 the extent to which lands comparatively unproducted 

 might be utilised profitably by planting them with trees, 

 it was deemed expedient that more attention should be 

 given to this in the education, instruction, and training of 

 students at the National School of Agriculture and Rural 

 Economy at Aas, than had been, and was being, done. 

 And advantage was taken of a re-organisation of this 

 school in 1871 to secure the accomplishment of this. And 

 something is being done to secure at the same time the 

 extension, as well as the conservation and improved 

 exploitation of the forest. 



The following is a translation of a report on forest 

 cultivation at Aas, by Mr H. Fougner, which has been sent 

 to me : ' Forest cultivation was commenced at Aas in the 

 year 1868, when, as a first attempt, trees were planted on 

 two small pieces of woodland close to the forest on 

 the Soraas Hill. On one of these about J maal (1 

 maal = 02,363 acres) were planted different kinds of 

 foreign fir trees as Pinus austriaca, Pin us strobus, Pinus 

 cembra, Pinus m on tana, Abies alba, Abies pectinata, and 

 Larix Europsea ; on the other piece about f maal were 

 planted mostly deciduous trees, more especially elm, maple, 

 and ash, mixed with small groups of Pinus austriaca, and 

 Pinus strobus. Both these plantations, after having been 



