CHAPTER XXII. 
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 Séraas Hill. On one of these about 4 maal (1 
maal = 02,363 acres) were planted different kinds of 
foreign fir trees—as Pinus austriaca, Pinus strobus, Pinus 
cembra, Pinus montana, Abies alba, Abies pectinata, and 
Larix Europea; onthe other piece about ? 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 
