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FORESTRY IN SWITZERLAND. 



RATES OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND. 



The annual consumption of wood per capita and per household of the 

 population of the canton as compared with the natural supply of its forests, 

 furnishes, as illustrated by the following table, an interesting, and instructive 

 subject for study. It shows, so far as Zurich is concerned, that her well-kept 

 forests are unable to supply not only all the needs of her population, but 

 barely two-thirds of that need, a condition which unfortunately prevails in 

 many other parts of Switzerland, where a wood famine is constantly threatened 

 and only averted by constant economy and vigilance : 



